Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [pron] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , the ventilation system needs to be thought through to minimise the chance either of its being ineffective or defeated or of its actually making things worse . ’ |
| 2 | Killick has no recollection of any work in the department on defence , or of anyone mysteriously disappearing . |
| 3 | The burlesquing of the debate over this issue does not simply lie in the Nun 's Priest 's professions of inability to cope with such learned speculations : or in his finally declaring the problem irrelevant : Learned in-joking on one of the authorities on the subject of freewill and providence , Boethius , is also found in the fox 's ability to refer to Boethius ' book on music ( 3293 – 4 ) and the fact that the fox breaks into Chauntecleer 's yard " " By heigh ymaginacioun forncast " " , " Foreseen by High Imagination " ( 3217 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , little love , ’ he breathed , and while from his adoring tone she knew herself forgiven , ‘ I — do n't know quite how to tell you this — ’ He paused , but , clearly deciding that there was only one way , he proceeded to completely stagger her when , ‘ It is a fact , my dear , that I did not , and never have , promised an interview to your sister , or to anyone else representing Verity magazine . ’ |
| 5 | Still , it was easier to accept Hoffman as Penn 's spokesman than as someone actually living through the film . |
| 6 | and for you to then actually have seen it sort of write it down rather than for someone just calling out to you . |
| 7 | There is undeniably some truth in that but , when you look in any detail at Montgomerie 's so-called failures since he won the Scandinavian Masters in 1991 , it has more often than not been less a question of his losing the tournament than of someone else winning it . |
| 8 | In 1988 , in the Tram Chim crane reserve near the Cambodia corder in southern Vietnam , Vo Quy and his Wetland and Waterbird Working Group counted more than 1,000 eastern sarus cranes , a bird recently believed to be extinct throughout Southeast Asia , except in its probably breeding grounds in Cambodia . |
| 9 | He will be remembered for his indefatigable work , for his great integrity , for his diplomacy , and for his never failing courtesy . |
| 10 | The underlying reason for not serving the writ is frequently a fear of upsetting the insurers and of their consequently breaking off negotiations . |
| 11 | One night about a month ago Tod woke up in an unusually desperate condition , half clothed , in fact , and with everything intolerably slewing around him — as if the bedroom was moored to a loosening capstan inside his gut , where his secret moans . |
| 12 | Even in those large congregations all the bidding prayers are spontaneous , beautifully prayed and with everyone obviously listening to what was being said . |
| 13 | But soon she began to detach herself from the girls sitting hand in hand in the Bun Shop and from their faintly rebuking way of going at their books . |
| 14 | On the parents ' separation the mother initially left the four children of the marriage with the father in the former matrimonial home but on her subsequently removing one of the children the father applied ex parte for orders , including a residence order , a prohibited steps order and a specific issue order pursuant to section 8 of the Children Act 1989 requiring her to return the child and directing her not to remove any of the children from the father 's care and control . |
| 15 | Gummow J. accepted that agreements made between the government of Australia and foreign Governments are non-justiciable , but held that ‘ the taking of a step in the conduct of international relations , whilst of itself neither creating private rights nor imposing such liabilities , may be a step in a process which as a whole may have that effect . ’ |