Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Othello asks , seeing that Iago ( is transmitting the signal that he ) has something on his mind . |
| 2 | Methodological Considerations in Forecasting the Demand for HE |
| 3 | Two approaches to forecasting the demand for HE have been commonly used — component forecasts , and aggregate forecasts based on national age participation rates . |
| 4 | Since the Prime Minister said that it is important to create the conditions for economic and industrial success , will he listen to the CBI which , in its report asks the Government to take proper account of the interests of manufacturing industry instead of pursuing the policies that they are pursuing ? |
| 5 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 6 | In Couturier v. Hastie , the House of Lords said it was a matter of construing the contract and it was only after doing so , that their Lordships held that the buyer had not agreed to buy a spes and that the contract was therefore void . |
| 7 | On Nov. 9 the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) was reported to have indicated that it would consider halting the shipment if it was found to be unsafe or shown to be vulnerable to accidents and piracy , as claimed by some IMO member states . |
| 8 | Perhaps I am being unnecessarily cynical but it seems that too much of a designer maker 's time is spent on public relations and maintaining the image and there is less willingness to share the things learned from technical and creative nightmares . |
| 9 | Our custodians used to be dressed in the same uniform as prison warders and their task was maintaining the monument and its grounds . |
| 10 | The physiotherapist has to be encouraging at all times , but this stops short of praising the patient when he has not achieved a required movement . |
| 11 | A few weeks later there appeared a letter to the then prestigious Pall Mall Gazette from Sickert praising the move because there are more clothed than naked people in the world , they display a greater variety of shapes and colours , drawing or painting them does not require the high temperature ‘ which is extremely injurious to young people , and to women of whom the classes largely consist ’ and , most piquantly , because ‘ the absence of the nude model will eliminate a certain number of students who are drawn by mere curiosity . ’ |
| 12 | Therefore , from the dealer 's point of view , the hire-purchase transaction has the advantage that he will not be prevented by either of those sections from recovering the goods after they have been passed on by the hirer to an innocent third party . |
| 13 | She is building the nest while he jealously guards her against the attentions of other males . |
| 14 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 15 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , total silence , ’ Wayne had assured her and then he 'd loaded the ovens into the van and left her to make her way upstairs , touching the wall as she went . |
| 17 | They approached the steps and Rain fastidiously avoided touching the rail as she descended . |
| 18 | Here the technique is to wander round , touching the stones or whatever , allowing expression to whatever comes to you . |
| 19 | and he goes no , he goes no , I 'm not touching the bear I 'm not touching the bear and he goes , and he goes |
| 20 | ‘ Well if it eats half as well as a salmon , I shall be 'appy , ’ grinned Lofty , subtly reminding the others that it was he who had found the fish . |
| 21 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 22 | ‘ We filled in loads of forms and kept reminding the council but nothing happened . |
| 23 | I complied immediately , reminding the controller that we 'd like the Porto and Viseu weathers ‘ when convenient for you ’ . |
| 24 | Jeremiah and Isaiah never tire of reminding the people that there is one God who can save his people , and that all other refuges are in vain . |
| 25 | How often will anti-Europeans sneeringly bait him by reminding the House that he is about to bail out ? |
| 26 | Thus the critic 's role becomes one of reminding the viewer that she/he is watching a work of fiction . |
| 27 | The Times was certainly not panicking , as its editorials rattled off the press each after another , priming the fuse of Parliament 's deliberations and heralding the garotters as something that signalled ‘ the failure of sentimental legislation ’ . |
| 28 | So vast quantities of stone were stockpiled along the way , and gangs of territorials , perhaps 1,000 in all , were set to work around the clock filling in and levelling the holes as they formed . |
| 29 | Burning and looting the countryside as he went , Edward took Caen and subjected it to a brutal sacking . |
| 30 | Historians still have before them the difficult task of charting the area before they can properly explore its hidden riches . |