Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He predicted some future settlements for cases he is handling would top £1 million . |
| 2 | The linking of a church having good resources and experience with another which is struggling could provide a useful and manageable means of learning , and both churches would derive benefit from it . |
| 3 | The person who is tonguing could catch other infections from this activity , such as gonorrhoea . |
| 4 | Using these questions to monitor what is happening will help you spot conflict early and react to deal with it . |
| 5 | If we listen acutely enough , the person who is dying will tell us when the time is right . |
| 6 | Intervention of that kind is justified only when the occasions of intervention have been announced in advance so that anyone who is listening will hear and understand . |
| 7 | Wednesday night 's picking would keep as fresh as berries picked on Friday , even in the hottest weather . |
| 8 | Gandalf says as much at II , 99 , though he is laconic about it — ‘ I sat in a high place ( the great tree in Lothlórien ? ] , and I strove with the Dark Tower ’ — since Aragorn and the others he is addressing can have no idea what is being referred to . |
| 9 | Without the pounds , boats in passage might have to wait while the locks above filled with water , before the lock through which it is passing can fill . |
| 10 | In addition , any person with whom the child is living may apply for variation of any requirement in the order which affects him ( s39(3) ) . |
| 11 | In addition , the person with whom the child is living must allow the supervisor reasonable contact with the child ( para 8(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 12 | If a computer salesman claims that the computer he is selling will run a particular software package and this claim turns out to be untrue , it will be for the company selling the computer to show that any exemption clause it hopes to rely on passes the test of reasonableness . |
| 13 | If such covenants are mixed with negative covenants , which appear on the Register , or if they are contained in a document that is bound up in the certificate , they will be apparent , and a conveyancer acting for an original covenantor who is selling should peruse these covenants , providing in the contract for a covenant of indemnity against breach of any positive covenants by the buyer ( see below ) ; ( see special condition K , 34 ) . |
| 14 | Should this occur , a team which is relaxing may find itself out of earshot when their name is called . |
| 15 | For a person insensitive to visual impressions the pattern on the wallpaper he is buying may seem not to deserve close scrutiny ; but if the room he has papered begins after a while to depress him , it has turned out that the pattern was relevant to the choice after all . |
| 16 | In addition to the adverse economic effect , the trend in which the single market programme is moving will have a serious political effect as well . |
| 17 | Makers Matchbox last night promised deliveries but said : ‘ There is no way that what is coming will meet demand . ’ |
| 18 | Now even Kalim Siddiqui is saying let's forgive and forget , when just a short time ago he was wanting me murdered , deported to Tehran , whatever would spill my blood . |
| 19 | No I do n't think so , I think there 's a difference because the other excesses were on the peasants ' part now it 's okay whatever the peasants did , you know , it 's not terrible it 's , it 's fine to let the peasants do that , and also erm into the war period the peasants are gon na but must n't do it , this time it 's like okay , now we 're the party that 's saying let's go as far as we can . |
| 20 | The inference seems to work roughly like this : assume B 's utterance is relevant ; if it 's relevant then given that A asked a question , B should be providing an answer ; the only way one can reconcile the assumption that B is co-operatively answering A's question with the content of B's utterance is to assume that B is not in a position to provide the full information , but thinks that the milkman 's coming might provide A with the means of deriving a partial answer . |
| 21 | However , the hon. Gentleman will know that the Government have gone to great lengths to help the Northern Ireland economy and I am sure that the measures that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is taking will continue to alleviate the situation in the Province . |
| 22 | This is a person who quite likes the idea that the woman he is mashing might stick an ice-pick into his jugular at any second . |
| 23 | The trial judge in proceedings which were commenced in the High Court and subsequently transferred to the county court is entitled to express the opinion referred to in s 51(8) ( b ) that the proceedings he is trying should have been commenced in the county court . |
| 24 | Even here , the test of imminence discussed in Moss v. McLachlan suggest that there must be a clear and present danger that the conduct in which he is engaging will give rise to a breach of the peace , and it is demonstrable that the constable has no reasonable alternative course of action open to him other than to ask the speaker to desist , as by , for example , calling for assistance . |