Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [pron] [am/are] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A nesting box must be positioned in an area that has no existing barn owl settlement , after checking that there are enough small mammals to feed an expanding population . |
| 6 | Hello tape recorder , you seemed to go off there for a while , I 'm just checking that you 're still working again , thanks very much . |
| 7 | It is a condition of booking that you are adequately insured on your holiday . |
| 8 | I think you need reminding that I am not your property ; never have been and never shall be ; and that you have no right at all to touch me if I do n't wish it , and none whatsoever to hurt me . |
| 9 | 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 ) ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | increase in the number of those in temporary accommodation , but is the Minister suggesting that they are not homeless ? |
| 12 | There is , therefore , a double dissociation between the effects of visual cortex and superior colliculus lesions , suggesting that they are functionally independent . |
| 13 | Prevalence rates for severe mental handicap are , however , considerably lower than this , perhaps four per 1000 , and given the more limited life expectancy in more severe cases , the most frequently quoted rate for severe mental handicap is 3.2 per 1000 suggesting that there are around 160,000 severely mentally handicapped people in the country . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 15 | I also wonder , seeing that I am not too old in the tooth , how many other wartime fishing kids are still around and as fishing daft as ever . |
| 16 | ‘ It is hard enough for me to run my practice here , seeing that I am that strange animal , a gentleman . |
| 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 is no good pretending that you are ever going to do fine woodwork with this All Purpose saw , but for rough cutting and shaping it has many uses around the house . |
| 19 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 20 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Perhaps , however , we can make this claim by appeal to the initial moves of the argument that you are not justified in believing that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 23 | Remembering that we are here dealing with a community first to exile and then returned to an impoverished and divided land ( i.e. |
| 24 | It is worth remembering that there are still people in Britain today who have never been to London . |
| 25 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 26 | I have now had to learn to cope with my problem and think before I react , remembering that I am now an adult . ’ |
| 27 | We may project the values we use ourselves on to other people — imagining that they are as critical as we are . |
| 28 | As we have seen earlier , this is a Freudian term implying that they are still committed to the ‘ pleasure principle ’ . |
| 29 | implying that they 're not any good , or not as good . |
| 30 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |