Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] they [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 2 | And DM shoes — I do n't wear them , but a lot of my friends do , and you ca n't help noticing that they 're much better made than the shoes for girls , they last so much longer . |
| 3 | noticing that they were n't they get , I suppose you get to know who has what and that they thought |
| 4 | There is obviously something wrong with a portrayal of children as totally lacking in reason until they leap out of bed on their tenth birthday announcing that they are now able to act on principle . |
| 5 | He has refused , so far , to bring the Moroccan troops home , but has issued a pamphlet explaining that they are not under allied command , and will not attack Iraq . |
| 6 | it 's a tangent it 's just another thing to be aware of er that certain put their exam but it 's along the same thing cos I know what 's happening and they 're not writing G C S E but they 're writing exam entries so many pupils x number of subjects so many passes okay ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , it has been wonderful , querida , ’ he agreed quietly , his eyes softening till they were almost hazel in shade . |
| 8 | Developments in antislavery — both the spread of local associations and the splitting off of the Agency campaign — were portrayed as only occurring when they were functionally necessary and productive of minimal conflict . |
| 9 | The new breeds of patio roses , Polyantha roses , and the modern shrub roses mentioned above , are all excellent subjects for pressing as they are considerably smaller than some other varieties , and bear a constant flow of flowers throughout the summer . |
| 10 | There 's an ecological number sung in typically spacey fashion ‘ The world 's spinning round , like a looney balloon ’ ; there 's an anti-Thatcher song summarising the Prime Minister 's lack of sensitivity in the one charge that she does n't like rock n roll ; and , proving that they are probably the only pop band ready for the single European market , there is an EC tribute : ‘ Down All The Days ( to 1992 ) ’ . |
| 11 | Scientific examination has shown that they are made of bronze similar to that used in genuine Italic figures from Italy and the patination appears to have developed over a long period , suggesting that they are not modern copies . |
| 12 | increase in the number of those in temporary accommodation , but is the Minister suggesting that they are not homeless ? |
| 13 | There is , therefore , a double dissociation between the effects of visual cortex and superior colliculus lesions , suggesting that they are functionally independent . |
| 14 | Two patients had very high insulin concentrations before starting treatment ( 161 and 213 mU/l ) , suggesting that they were not adequately fasted . |
| 15 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |
| 16 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 17 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 18 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 19 | Recognise that addictive diseases affects different people in different ways and it is very variable in its intensity but that all share the denial of believing that they are not addicted : the crucial test of addiction is not whether one can stop the use of an addictive substance or behaviour but whether one can happily stay off and not be drawn back to it or to something equally addictive . |
| 20 | By a statesmanlike not an enthusiastic appeal Buxton may have calculated on maximising pressure for policy revision and politically isolating the West Indian interest , believing that they were already on the defensive morally and ideologically . |
| 21 | On the issue of business confidence , the study revealed that economic confidence was returning , with 77 per cent of companies surveyed believing that they were well placed to lead the country out of recession . |
| 22 | He had been handcuffed and was crying with the pain , shouting that they were too tight . |
| 23 | We may project the values we use ourselves on to other people — imagining that they are as critical as we are . |
| 24 | As we have seen earlier , this is a Freudian term implying that they are still committed to the ‘ pleasure principle ’ . |
| 25 | implying that they 're not any good , or not as good . |
| 26 | ( ‘ And their void shields are overlapping because they 're so figging close together ! |
| 27 | There were ten teams competing and they were down as ‘ Hawkwood Comprehensive ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Middlesbrough Library came up with a decade of the Annual Register from 1790–1800 , which was wonderful , ’ she said , adding that they were so dirty it looked as if they had n't been touched since that date . |
| 29 | Councillor and Councillor mentioned testing and they 're dead right , I oppose it , it 's an irrelevance , a complete distraction . |
| 30 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |