Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's squeaking and creaking is n't it ? |
| 2 | Earlier , at the committee meeting , he said : ‘ There is no point in pretending that this is not an emergency . |
| 3 | even if the possibility exists that other books with the same class number are relevant , the system should not offer these without establishing that this is so . |
| 4 | erm now the strongest reason , I think , for believing that that is not the case is that it does n't come from the fossil record , it comes simply from looking at organisms today . |
| 5 | There are two reasons for believing that this is n't true . |
| 6 | Positive tests can be attributed to feedstuffs or medication , but Martin Pipe emphasised : ‘ I am implying that that is not the case . |
| 7 | And he 's warning if this is n't tackled now , we are creating a lethal cocktail which will result in a spiral of despair . |
| 8 | You know , often horses do stand close together and they , sometimes you get them overlapping and that is not the best thing to do , it 's nice to have them separated if you possibly can . |
| 9 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 10 | Although these assumptions may seem too numerous and overly restrictive it is worth restating that this is essentially a deductive economic model which abstracts from reality . |
| 11 | I 'm delighted to welcome er the various initiatives that result from partnerships between industry and government er and in particular the investors in people which encourages training and skilling er on a life long basis and I have pleasure in confirming that that is not confined to the private sector and that today ACAS became the first civil service er body to receive the full award of Investors in People . |
| 12 | The effectiveness of a GIS in assisting policy and investment decision-making is related to the accuracy of the accident data it is analysing and this is especially true for particular initiatives including Safe Travel to School and AIP work . |
| 13 | Guidance also involves testing and interviewing but this is invariably a two person situation of a counsellor and client . |
| 14 | the play equipment is in need of up-grading but this is not scheduled to take place till session 1995–96 . |
| 15 | One , one of the most common question of the last weeks are we yes last weeks Sunday visiting that I was involved with in my ward was from people who were perturbed , not about means testing because that is not the word that it was about , but about something that is on the same kind of sphere and that was about whether erm East Gates which decided to be their own managers would also be able to their own tenants and keep the ones that were less suitable away from the ones that knew that they were suitable . |
| 16 | Though we need not go along all the way with this characteristically provocative view ( and even Keller found ‘ a few playable exceptions ’ ) , I confess to wondering whether this is not one of those issues motivated less by musical need than by the pious opportunism of which we saw so much in the bicentenary year . |
| 17 | The Reeve is able to round his tale off by repeating the socially integrative prayer with which the Miller ends his tale , and stating that all is now square : |
| 18 | Oh I 'm alright do n't worry about me I 'm , they , the person at home , their family must be told as well as you making a note in your accident book that there has been somebody with a knock on the head however mi minor it is , it 's got to be reported , because that knock could have repercussions , it could have broken a small vessel in the brain , it could still be bleeding and that is when compression takes over . |
| 19 | These tend to provide an excuse for putting off coaching and this is why some organizations are now insisting that coaching is built into the management role more formally . |
| 20 | He achieves this by taking a central pillar in this tradition , Kant 's concept of the aesthetic as distanced contemplation which transcends the immediacy of experience , and demonstrating that this is only a single perspective , that of the dominant class . |
| 21 | And some are saying that that 's already happening . |
| 22 | Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ? |
| 23 | I am not saying that that is not worrying , and we must address that problem ; I shall seek to suggest how in a moment . |
| 24 | His camp followers have been nodding their heads sagely and saying that all is not yet over and Hezzy may not be destined to live out his political life amid the ruins of the Department of the Environment — once he 's pulled it down , that is . |
| 25 | You 're saying that this is not necessarily the case . |
| 26 | which er er in my profession as well I come up against all the time and I I think that we 're not really acknowledging that that is very often a cause , for men and women |
| 27 | doing that that 's why I thought I 'd get , you know , a response out of people |
| 28 | On top of that the new point to point season is off and running and that 's where we 're going for this week 's Friday Feature |
| 29 | He believed absolutely in what he was doing and that is why he and Mrs Thatcher achieved so much . |
| 30 | But you see I find this discussion slightly difficult to deal with because on the one hand you 're saying yes , the exclusion clauses in the policy reduce the scope of your liability quite dramatically , and on the other hand you 're saying but that 's just the words in practice we behave quite differently . |