Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seem to remember seeing that years ago . |
| 2 | The EXTREMELY suspect one where they run to each other ( or more likely one sad git runs to the scorer … desperate to get some attention ) , hold hands , trot backwards stroking each others hands in the process ? ? |
| 3 | A Yorkshire mill-owner 's seventieth birthday is recorded as bringing ‘ callers all day , bringing little remembrances of flowers , fruit , etc ; ’ while a Kent farm labourer , on reaching the same age after 51 years on the same farm , was given a pension from a local charity and gave up work . |
| 4 | The extreme snobbery of this abstruse observation would have been rude had it been clear , for Lydia knew perfectly well that the Molesworths were the sort of people who picnicked in lay-bys , bringing little chairs and tables and using the car boot as a sort of sideboard . |
| 5 | There are , of course , profound disagreements between Marxist and elite writers as to the causal factors generating this phenomena . |
| 6 | erm so erm I do n't know it 's just down to generating some questions . |
| 7 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 8 | The latter reform can not be introduced without hazarding some risks . |
| 9 | Leaving aside here the more extreme version of the theory of elites as expounded by Pareto or by Ortega y Gasset ( 1930 , p. 49 ) in his distinction between the inert masses and ‘ the select men , the nobles , the only ones who are active and not merely reactive ’ , we can identify two types of political theory which , while accepting some aspects of modern democracy , are concerned to limit its significance . |
| 10 | And Frye is sceptical about the possibility of women looking to their foremothers as a source of inspiration ; of seeing some women , at least , as having led lives that were not wholly male-mediated . |
| 11 | Britain 's only racer , Mike Browne — owner of the Snow and Rock chain of outdoor clothing shops in London , actually looked forward to seeing some snakes en route . |
| 12 | None had been seen at that time in the Harwell experiments that preceded ZETA but Kurchatov announced that the Soviets were seeing some neutrons which were due to fusion occurring , but were unlikely to be from thermonuclear fusion because the rate of their production did not vary with current in the expected way . |
| 13 | We shall be seeing some comparisons of developments with controlled and uncontrolled disturbances in Figs 18.9–18.12 . |
| 14 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 15 | Cut out about a quarter of the old bare wood from established trees by shortening some branches back to suitable side branches and severing others at the base . |
| 16 | That could benefit producers by allowing some inroads into carry over of frozen stocks from last year . |
| 17 | These changes were aimed at speeding up trials and saving government expenditure by allowing some cases which would have previously been tried in the Supreme Court moved to district courts , and by having other cases tried by police courts instead of district courts . |
| 18 | As the National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government implemented its radical economic programme , sharply reducing subsidies and allowing some prices to find their market level , protest demonstrations took place throughout November in response to the consequent steep price rises . |
| 19 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 20 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 21 | The 1pc figure is an average one , allowing some workers to get more , while others would get no increase at all . |
| 22 | The 1pc figure is an average one , allowing some workers to get more while others would get no increase at all . |
| 23 | He criticised the WEA for allowing some branches to be ‘ swallowed up by the vortex of gentility ’ , failing to engage in serious study and neglecting their mission to manual workers : he wanted such branches closed . |
| 24 | In a report today , the lawyers , including representatives of the National Council for Civil Liberties and the Haldane Society , criticise Douglas Hogg , the former Home Office minister , and the RUC for accusing some solicitors of holding IRA sympathies . |
| 25 | There is to be no nonsense about value , preferring some books or authors to others , or personal responses , which have a merely anecdotal or autobiographical interest . |
| 26 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 27 | and er Gary was involved yesterday in drawing some plans up with er Nick |
| 28 | Even those writers who specifically warned against using the historical experiences of contemporary rich countries as a guide for the Third World could not resist drawing some conclusions from the realm of foreign trade . |
| 29 | Fear of public criticism may well be intimidating some doctors , making them less inclined to consider the diagnosis . |
| 30 | This suggests a number of avenues which historical and aesthetic research might pursue , or at least it offers a way of organizing and disciplining some intuitions . |