Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if we are assured that the creatures in question are not in any pain , some people will prolong the argument either by insisting that they must be in some sort of distress , or by claiming that even if they are not overtly suffering , what is happening to them is cruel and unwarranted exploitation . |
| 2 | We have lived in this peaceful west Stirlingshire village for 32 years , and thought the risk of it happening to us was negligible . |
| 3 | It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy . |
| 4 | No we 're laugh , not laughing at her being deaf , we 're laughing at her , the robbery . |
| 5 | Debbie the student midwife looking after me is lovely — kind and efficient . |
| 6 | Mother had so much to do outside and the old folk living with us were ailing and needed a lot of attention . |
| 7 | ‘ The cuts they were wanting from us were ridiculous . ’ |
| 8 | Apparently according to we are supposed to grain free t certificates . |
| 9 | They claimed that they were being treated like Gypsies or Albanians , which according to them was unacceptable . |
| 10 | Changes in the provision of health care and increasing awareness of the demoralising effects of our traditional system on the students going through it are driving changes , and we may be poised on the brink of a steep acceleration in the number of schools willing to make radical changes in their courses . |
| 11 | Between the gusts , the sound of rain on the roof and water pouring off it was continuous . |
| 12 | But where Cluster Analysis can show the existence of sufficiently large groupings of respondents , or product/benefit requirements which have similar attribute sets , then these may be used as MARKETING TARGETS , if the benefits of selling into them are likely to exceed the cost . |
| 13 | I did ask whether the Association of Chief Police Officers have been told that they are going to they are likely to have to take over many of the responsibilities of the British Transport Police as from the first of April . |
| 14 | You 're going to you 're flying south for the winter ? |
| 15 | I 'm going to it 's wonderful . |
| 16 | Should I seek to impose a legal limit on daily TV viewing , even supposing that it were enforceable ? |
| 17 | The arm lying across her was relaxed and heavy , but Isabel knew it could become an iron band , trapping her in an instant . |
| 18 | In the case of lions , not only was a rival male likely to be a close relative , but the costs of physically competing with him were high and the benefits low . |
| 19 | Had to do it see , dad 's been complaining about me being lazy . ’ |
| 20 | The thing that 's flying towards me is multicoloured — I 'm being beaten up by colours — grass-green violet scarlet beige BANG rust indigo lime BANG ! rose-pink slate-grey flame-orange BANG BANG ! — and the colours have got my face . |
| 21 | Speaking at it 's annual conference in Newcastle , Co Down , he said it was real evidence of customer satisfaction . |
| 22 | What the hon. Member for Staffordshire , South said about the tragedy unfolding before us is right . |
| 23 | Cos it 's it 's puts it do , I know you were saying about it 's difficult to answer yes or no to a question but i in this case it 's really true because I answered no but I 've I 've got erm I mean I 've I 've got a degree in politics and I studied er , I did a a course women in politics |
| 24 | Approach road junctions with great care , consider your road position and your speed , drive on only when you are sure it is safe to do so and that you will not block the junction , watch out for long vehicles which maybe turning left or right , at the junction ahead , but which may have to use to make a turn , when waiting to emerge at a junction , do not assume that a vehicle approaching from the right which is signalling with it 's left hand direction indicator would turn left , wait to make sure do you know what I mean ? |
| 25 | Yet I am puzzled as to whether that would mean that we should leave our radios on , so long as the music coming from them is beautiful , in order that our rooms be filled with beauty even in our absence . |
| 26 | you 're saying to it 's logical conclusion , then why do n't we just erm , open up Hampden up sell the stuff there , you know people , you know , if children want it or adults |
| 27 | An Olympic movement looking ahead rather than reflecting on it 's noble past was how one I O C Committee member described Atlanta 's win over Athens , Bobby Charlton part of Manchester 's bid was n't so sure . |
| 28 | Deferred shares obviate a reduction of capital , and the rights attaching to them are negligible . |
| 29 | Eventually he tied it down and sat muttering about it being typical behaviour of suitcases and that they were not to be trusted . |
| 30 | Thus , much was made of the fact that while the war in Vietnam was ‘ legal ’ , protesting against it was liable to lead to the protester being defined as a criminal ; that drinking alcohol was respectable , while smoking cannabis was not . |