Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [noun] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 're saying things should have improved by this time next year . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're assuming America will win against Kanza , ’ said John Bertrand , Conner 's strategist . |
| 3 | They 're hoping Industry will contribute . |
| 4 | Do not become too paranoid as any changes that are taking place will work to your benefit . |
| 5 | At the rate things were going Meredith could swallow up the budget for the entire year before the season was a quarter way through . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems as if I really do need to lie down , ’ she said faintly , and then he had swept her off the ground and was carrying her to one of the low , comfortable sofas in a private alcove where donors who were feeling faint could eat and drink in peace and quiet as they recovered . |
| 7 | Yorkshire are hoping Tendulkar will lure support from the ethnic community to a county which has seen membership decline from 15,000 to 7,000 in recent years . |
| 8 | Hollywood executives are hoping Rachel will team up with her past co-star Richard Chamberlain to bring viewers a second helping of the Australia-based story about a priest who falls in love with a married woman . |
| 9 | so , anyway , she must of thought about this , so she called on Monday , and she said oh I 've been thinking Michael 'll need electric for the drill |
| 10 | Although the books have been translated into Latin ( the most gentle of language teaching aids ) , it is unlikely that the film 's dubbing team will have to contend with ablative absolutes . |
| 11 | The President 's letter reflects mounting concern among solicitors that the Legal Aid Board 's franchising proposals may conceal a hidden agenda on the Lord Chancellor 's part . |
| 12 | The Legal Aid Board 's franchising package will include requirements about practice management . |
| 13 | Social workers who want to give serious attention to an elderly couples ' relationship which is causing unhappiness might find it helpful to find a colleague with whom to talk through their feelings about doing marital work , including the discussion of sexuality with an elderly couple . |
| 14 | Local people making representations have to show that the haulier 's operating centre would reduce the enjoyment of their land . |
| 15 | Even the fact that someone inside is writing fieldnotes will produce unease , as I have experienced ; and their collation can almost certainly be tantamount to something akin to espionage ; for as Sean Conlin ( 1980 ) observed : ‘ often our work can seem ‘ political ’ rather than scientific ’ . |
| 16 | He said the world 's racing authorities could persecute him all they liked but he would find a spanner to throw in their works , and they 'd regret it . ’ |
| 17 | The employer who has obtained patent protection for an invention which is undergoing refinement may agree to supply customers with one of his own non patented substitute products until the development work has reached its conclusion . |
| 18 | The Chancellor is assuming growth will pick up to 1.25 per cent this year , rising to 1.75 per cent by the second half of the year and 3 per cent in the first half of 1994 . |
| 19 | So it 's jargon , it 's assuming people will pick things up as quickly as we have and it 's not recognising that people have different interpretations . |
| 20 | The client 's leafleting contractors can use these maps to isolate those sections of the town or country for selective distribution . |
| 21 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 22 | Lloyd 's is insisting underwriters must join the market association for the class of business they undertake , but quality policing will fall on the shoulders of managing agents . |
| 23 | In a in an addition to er the er environmental health people though , if it 's a council house there 's housing department will deal with that . |
| 24 | If Mrs Smith had been nice , Nutty 's fighting spirit would have softened . |
| 25 | A child 's paddling pool would house the fish temporarily , but this should be placed either inside a shed or garage , in case the temperature falls drastically overnight . |
| 26 | THE Soviet Union 's quarrelling politicians may have come to a truce , perhaps something more . |
| 27 | Mr Nath has already raised £700 towards the cost of hospital bills and transport for two-year-old Constantin and now he is hoping others will join him in his fundraising . |
| 28 | A vicar in a South Oxfordshire village is hoping locals will rally round to save a church tower . |
| 29 | Skipper Colin Jeffrey , another talented batsmen , is hoping Brigade can end their recent run of disappointing batting displays . |
| 30 | The organisation is hoping people will use the event to visit places of interest which may hold special memories for them . |