Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , the symptoms of even full-blown affective psychosis and schizophrenia overlap considerably , suggesting that they simply represent different ways in which a common tendency to insanity can manifest itself . |
| 2 | Although clay crystals theoretically could store the same prodigious quantities of information as DNA or laser discs can , nobody is suggesting that they ever did . |
| 3 | If other Victorian novelists do not set fire to their great houses with as much frequency as Dickens , they tend in other ways to undermine them , suggesting that they too perceive them , not merely as fabrics , but as expressions of an outmoded system . |
| 4 | In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions . |
| 5 | We reject outdated notions of national sovereignty , believing that they now stand in the way of common action to deal with the scourges of disease and hunger , the deterioration of the Earth 's environment and the continuing dangers of the post-Cold War world . |
| 6 | This included legislation and other measures allowing young men to evade conscription or ordering that they only serve in their home republic , and moves by individual republics to set up their own military detachments . |
| 7 | Visiting valets , I have found , are often the worst offenders , aspiring as they usually do to the position of butler with some urgency . |
| 8 | Corbett smiled ; a few minutes later he wished he had n't , for he too was sick and was still trembling when they safely reached the abbey gates . |
| 9 | We were parked Chinese like , you know , waiting cos they normally wave to us if there 's any things comes |
| 10 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 11 | DNs demonstrated an awareness of the need for compression bandaging by reporting that they regularly applied compression to 198 ( 73 per cent ) of affected limbs and ‘ sometimes ’ to a further 12 ( 4 per cent ) . |
| 12 | The percentage reporting that they always felt lonely showed little change with age . |
| 13 | The percentage reporting that they sometimes felt lonely increased from 10 per cent of males and 16 per cent of females aged 70 — 74 to 18 per cent and 27 per cent respectively of those aged 85 + ( Victor 1987 ) . |
| 14 | They say it 's too soon considering that they just started work with Bull on them , as we ourselves noted . |
| 15 | Yes of course maybe play acting when they 're doing that they 're more conscious of the way they 're speaking and they probably want to make it right with what they think it should be . |
| 16 | Tess became more and more exhausted and was near to fainting when they finally stopped . |
| 17 | GREY November or no , Festival fever is here again , with its prospects for of makin' whoopee and temperatures rising as they always do with the actual Festival opening . |
| 18 | The International Herald Tribune of Jan. 22 quoted US administration officials as saying that they strongly suspected that Israel had supplied cluster bombs to the Ethiopian Air Force . |
| 19 | Nigel was saying that they only had a couple , you know , cos they like you |
| 20 | Neutrinos are hard to detect : they interact so little with matter that they can probably float through entire galaxies without being affected ; they exist but have no mass nor any other physical property , which is like saying that they simultaneously exist and do not exist . |
| 21 | Erm maintenance of the Road football pitch , we 've had some complaints er on the er Road football pitch which relate to the er caravan access , erm caravan use , we 've also had some er comments from the Pub , saying that they actually appreciate the caravans being in the area because of the increased trade . |
| 22 | No doubt Harry 's family would also have replied in the affirmative , indicating that they really did not know what happiness was . |
| 23 | Right so was it , they , they were getting they were joining cos they wanted to they did n't , they were joining cos they actively wanted to be involved in a revolutionary sort of |
| 24 | I ran home from school in the Fifties and I would be crying because they really sold us all the fear of a nuclear explosion . |
| 25 | Each pupil then has to respond to each statement by saying whether they strongly agree , agree , neither agree nor disagree , disagree , strongly disagree . |
| 26 | If the agreement satisfied all the requirements of a tenancy , then the agreement produced a tenancy and the parties can not alter the effect of the agreement by insisting that they only created a licence . |
| 27 | Researchers may , for example , find sufficient information in the abstract to determine whether or not they require to see the original thesis , assuming that they regularly scan issues , or have the contents made known to them by their library or information service . |
| 28 | We do not know if their society ( and here , of course , we are assuming that they actually had a society ) was matriarchal or patriarchal . |
| 29 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 30 | In order to provide it , adoptive parents themselves need the security of knowing that they alone have the joy and responsibility of bringing up the child . |