Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not alone in maintaining that he is the second sweetest man on earth . |
| 2 | This Summer Disney finally relented and allowed alcohol to be sold after they realized that the French were not interested in eating if there was no drink on offer . |
| 3 | Mr. Marston may be correct in submitting that there is such material . |
| 4 | American sympathy with Chinese dissenters , inspired by the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 , is such that Chinese refugees have no difficulty in proving that they are in danger of persecution at home : of the 3,440 Chinese who sought asylum in 1992 , only 89 were rejected . |
| 5 | In accepting that there is a representation problem , I reject two views according to which there would be no such problem . |
| 6 | But , even while her spirits were taking a nosedive that , supposing he was offering her a lift to Prague , there would n't be any point in accepting if it was unlikely she 'd be able to book in anywhere , he , to her absolute astonishment , was going on , ‘ There 's a spare room in a suite I 've reserved for this month — you can have that if you wish . ’ |
| 7 | The delight at the judgment which was ascribed to John Hegarty in the July issue of ACCOUNTANCY perhaps goes too far in suggesting that there is now mutual recognition of firms within the EC . |
| 8 | Professor Hoskins was incorrect in suggesting that there is little new to say about roads . |
| 9 | The Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North ( Mr. Wilson ) was correct in suggesting that there are powers under clause 12 if future arrangements are inadequate . |
| 10 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 11 | For Brace , who engaged only in jogging before he was struck by the marathon boom , it will be his 26th venture over the 26 miles 385 yards course . |
| 12 | This is a very important position you 're after , I shall have to be very thorough in checking whether you 're up to it . |
| 13 | In addition , if in this century racism has become the prototypical instantiation of the concept of ‘ prejudice ’ , then similar justificatory strategies can be expected , when people deny racism and prejudice : in denying that one is racist , one is denying that one is prejudiced , and vice versa . |
| 14 | If all the cases that attract attention , because they are argued in important appellate courts before public scrutiny , are occasions on which judges are scrupulous in denying that they are serving the goal of protected expectations through their decisions , this can hardly do much to reinforce the public 's faith in that ideal . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never been interested in driving and I 'm not going to start now , ’ said Liz , who works at Courtaulds Electrical Insulation at Runcorn in the UK . |
| 16 | Since a member of the present shadow cabinet has been reported to favour " the alternative vote system of proportional representation " , we may note in passing that there is no such thing . |
| 17 | ( It might be noted in passing that there were scarcely any examples known to the social workers from any team of elderly people being referred from households where other family members were also clients . ) |
| 18 | They must take note , in passing as it were , of who is speaking , without any loss of continuity in following the quoted words . |
| 19 | … you have got to make a verbal , visual contact with every child , even if it 's in passing if they 're busy with their work . |
| 20 | Chinese and Japanese speakers are not too concerned with establishing in each case whether there is one or more than one of a given referent , just as English speakers are not particularly interested in establishing whether there are two or more than two persons or objects . |
| 21 | Sir Walter Raleigh [ q.v. ] was not alone in believing that they were , in his words , ‘ pensioners to Customer Smith ’ . |
| 22 | Social learning theory does not take into account the biological and genetic factors of nature however , in believing that everything is learnt and nothing is innate and sometimes these must be taken into account . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | go into a wedding , you go in believing that it is forever that 's it ! |
| 25 | I am at one with the hon. Gentleman in believing that it is important that we develop such a policy — but neither he nor I , nor anyone else , can say that any particular state of agriculture is frozen . |
| 26 | The publisher may be correct in believing that there is a space for a book which reviews Picasso 's career in its entirety and discusses the full range of his activity as a painter , draughtsman , printmaker , sculptor and ceramicist , but this publication is certainly not the solution to this requirement , and Professor Warncke of the University of Tübingen is , sadly , not the scholar to undertake this enormous task . |
| 27 | How far " out " , were the Greeks in believing that there were 360 days in a year ? |
| 28 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 29 | Never mind , it is a reckless , bloodthirsty tale , with Roland ultimately being punished for his hubris in refusing until it was too late to blow his oliphant , or horn , to summon back Charlemagne and the rest of the army to help his vastly outnumbered rear guard . |
| 30 | There seems no point in pretending that he was reluctant to serve the Tory Party in this way , though it added to his unpopularity with the younger Liberals . |