Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This usually occurred indirectly , but none the less effectively introducing this information which Parliament had tried to rule out as admissible evidence . |
| 2 | However , they are unlikely to be able to navigate sufficiently accurately using this cue alone . |
| 3 | and , and her sitting down either doing this jigsaw or watching films would you |
| 4 | Given this premise , we should not be surprised to find the police are in the forefront of support for proposals such as the introduction of identity cards ; it was not surprising to find the 1988 Superintendents ' Association conference not only supporting this motion , but arguing for the creation of twenty-four hour armed patrols throughout the country and making a plea for a national motorway squad . |
| 5 | However , as with the English infinitive , the speaker is not merely accepting this happening as a fact but is passing judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence : the verb regretter here expresses a " critical idea " through which the happening être venu is " viewed " ( Guillaume 1971a : 218 ) . |
| 6 | In displaying the consistency of involvement and leadership in the Conservative party with regard to Europe , is he not finally giving this country the role that it lost with the empire ? |
| 7 | ‘ Yet surely just even planning this kind of a development entails a risk , an unacceptably high one , according to the residents . |
| 8 | While not explicitly using this argument , Rawls comes close to doing so in saying that |
| 9 | Long standing chronic disease can be cured more quickly using this scale ( Some cases of bronchial asthma of very long standing have been cured in three to four months , and cancer cases within six to eight months ) . |
| 10 | I have to say that they were also apparently making this suggestion for rats and mice . |
| 11 | David , David and James would you erm please report to the Head of Department 's office straight away following this lecture . |
| 12 | In fact women are clearly already making this kind of calculation for themselves and many do decide they would rather run the gauntlet of contraceptive side effects than risk a pregnancy and cope with the consequences . |
| 13 | so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 ) |
| 14 | Some students are now openly broadcasting this fact . |
| 15 | One night after shuffling absently through a foxtrot , Flavia was walked a few steps into the garden by her partner and given a kiss , she quite cheerfully accepting this custom of the country . |
| 16 | ‘ It is possible that the humans are startled that they are no longer flying this machine , ’ said the Thing . |
| 17 | round here doing this business like that and then all of a sudden she come across the room she 's Weow ! |
| 18 | Are you all actually all doing this essay , are you ? |
| 19 | Skirts and dresses are also very easy using this program , whether they are straight , shaped , gored or sideways knit . |
| 20 | His letter continues : ‘ They [ the Government ] are therefore conceivably encouraging this sort of action in the Highlands as the view within the Highlands is that holiday-home owners should be surcharged . ’ |
| 21 | We can see him very clearly following this method in his only other surviving letter on a question involving a reference to Canon Law written in Rufus 's reign . |