Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ride out by companies , whether it 's hunting or hawking there are always enough of them to make for safety . |
| 2 | When the principal exemplars of this class are dramatically eliminated the message is clear : middlemanship destroys from within , and the act of passing something on without truly changing or improving it is psychologically nullifying . |
| 3 | Fun tray Children soon learn how to undo buckles on car safety restraints , but tying or turning them is not the solution as they wo n't come undone quickly in an emergency . |
| 4 | ‘ When we 're writing or recording it 's always serious , and then if you went on the road for two months and you were serious you 'd spend your whole life being serious ! |
| 5 | The importance of affirmation With regard to football it perhaps does not matter very much — people who like playing it or watching it are not likely to be seriously affected by our negative comments ; they will just think that we are stupid and go on playing and watching as before . |
| 6 | It might provide a temporary suspension of concern about school work , being bullied , or growing up ( or feeling one is not growing up ) . |
| 7 | I agree with you that it 's not right to call your son names , and that slapping him is potentially dangerous . |
| 8 | As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him . |
| 9 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 10 | L.G. rather deprecated that saying he was not in love with it . |
| 11 | See if you know that Mrs L and Mrs T can get away with talking about your colour and that knowing there 's not a thing you can do about it because they do n't believe you . |
| 12 | She met his determined gaze and knew that avoiding him was n't going to be easy . |
| 13 | In that setting it is very difficult for our " propaganda " to be as effective as it might otherwise be . |
| 14 | Many religions have codes of dress or behaviour that particularly affect girls ; some may seem restrictive , but Yasmin feels that covering herself is not repressive but liberating ; her sense of finally feeling ‘ right ’ is enormous . |
| 15 | I know we said it so many times in Seville but even then there was that feeling it was so unreal . |
| 16 | Faced with a given set of words which are capable of conveying that meaning it is not surprising if the words are accepted as having that meaning . |
| 17 | They said the government had declared them ‘ protected species ’ and that killing them was now a criminal offence . |
| 18 | Detecting these patterns and helping them be most noticeable in the book has been facilitated by the programs to traverse the document and programs which give summaries of the characteristics of the node names . |
| 19 | The general picture which emerges is one in which , whilst a considerable amount of assistance does pass between relatives , the procedures for asking for , offering and accepting it are quite tricky to handle in practice . |
| 20 | An afternoon patrol is on the task sheet — providing a reassuring presence on the ground , and an opportunity for gathering intelligence and seeing who is about . |
| 21 | He chose a very long one and realising it was too long chose a smaller one . |
| 22 | In October 1889 , the British Government became determined not to allow any threat to the British strategical supremacy in South Africa , and that led to the outbreak of another Boer War , which included some humiliating defeats in the initial stages and the two great sieges at Ladysmith and Mafeking which were finally relieved in 1900 . |
| 23 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 24 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 25 | In a voluntary way a voluntary capacity working I mean in in this sense in my there is a sense of responsibility and I find that good and challenging which is perhaps one of the reasons why I like doing these courses because you you er a certain amount of stress and responsibility is is . |
| 26 | Vladimir described the difference as ‘ white washing ’ and ‘ washing white ’ : white washing is quick and relatively easy , just covering up what was there , but there is always the danger of it chipping off and revealing what is underneath . |
| 27 | Not all of them , of course , are directly important to your work , but the key figures need to be known and meeting them is sometimes not easy . |
| 28 | After a period of activity and shouting it is surprisingly easy to introduce a game like ‘ dead lions ’ ( p.39 ) and have all the children being as quiet as they can be . |
| 29 | By avoiding this situation and pretending it 's not happening means that we can actually be risking the lives of one our friends , one of our family . |
| 30 | And frightening me is n't as important as you think . |