Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Journalists rarely investigate , tending to report only the words and actions of others . |
| 2 | On others he apparently modified his position ; most notably , though refusing to discuss explicitly the constitutionality of abortion , he acknowledged the existence of a fundamental right protecting marital privacy , the doctrine originally used by the Supreme Court to legitimize abortion in the landmark 1973 decision Roe v. Wade . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Marcus , flinching inwardly at the contact with Pete , wanting to wipe away the touch of his sweaty hand . |
| 4 | In the present case it is in my judgment clearly established by the evidence , first , that the plaintiff had a belief at all material times that she was going to receive both the cottage and the remainder of the deceased 's property on his death , and secondly , that this belief was encouraged by the deceased . |
| 5 | This is particularly unfortunate because in deciding to set aside the demand the judge exercised a discretion , and on this appeal I am discharging an appellate jurisdiction and not hearing the matter afresh and exercising my own discretion : see In re Gilmartin ( A Bankrupt ) [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 513 . |
| 6 | She closed her eyes to the image , waiting to hear only the words and shut out the pain . |
| 7 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 8 | Yeah in today 's press it says that er the government are going to subsidize now the coal industry something like seven hundred millions due to the miners ' kerfuffle , which is going to mean between five and ten pounds subsidy per ton . |
| 9 | I 've got know that I 'm going to do both the maths |
| 10 | We 're , we 're going to conclude now the discussion of the various ways in which , bacteria , in particular er lead to the production of infective disease and really to centre round , centres round the discussion of the pathogenesis , that is the mechanism by which the disease is produced and lunanspach . |
| 11 | But in this chapter I am going to argue just the opposite . |
| 12 | And the erm ni the , the , the capsules and the er Nitrous Albide I expect are the ones he 's going to change though the problem is exactly what to . |
| 13 | Somewhat bruised , the raiding party made their way back to their rendezvous on foot , with David Stirling wondering how he was going to explain away the loss of the truck . |
| 14 | We were n't going to say just the names initials initials and initial |
| 15 | He wins universal applause from his followers and admiration from the reader , despite the fact that he is going to take away the paradise which may still have been ours . |
| 16 | I think that the I think the question of that really , I 'm trying to , I ca n't quite frankly , I think that 's Mike Kirkham in this who particularly investigated that one , but I think that basically what we were really saying was on what I was saying earlier on is that if you make it too difficult for the employers , you 're going to take away the incentive to run a final salary scheme , you know that you know I think basically final salary pension schemes are good for the employee , you know , I think that was what our fundamental thinking of on that was . |
| 17 | The enterprise of attempting to specify exhaustively the range of possible surface variants of a variable is thus argued to be irrelevant to a satisfying and explanatory account of syntactic variation . |
| 18 | And Valerie and erm Roger will still be helping to put together the communication stuff . |
| 19 | I was expecting to discover just the radiation that Zeldovich and Starobinsky had predicted from rotating black holes . |
| 20 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 21 | Gina bit into an apricot and nut Danish pastry , acknowledging an untypical craving for sweetness , beginning to relax now the conversation had been established as impersonal . |
| 22 | By the last years of the period there were indications that anti-militarist ideas were beginning to influence even the policies of a few important statesmen — Turgot , Vergennes , possibly the younger Pitt . |
| 23 | But there is some good news , because it seems that some people are beginning to take seriously the problem of graduate unemployment . |
| 24 | The sun had just risen and was beginning to burn away the mist . |
| 25 | His mind was fixed elsewhere , struggling to piece together the fragments of an event he had participated in but not understood . |
| 26 | Mr Major believes any rebellion can be quelled by extending the debate on Scotland and continuing to drive home the message that devolution leading to independence would harm Scottish interests , reduce Scotland 's influence within the EC , and cause political uncertainty which would draw investment away south of the border and abroad . |
| 27 | The press accused the government of having created the shortage by failing to implement fully the state purchasing plan from herdsmen in the provinces , but herdsmen were also reported to be reluctant to sell to the state in anticipation of higher state purchasing prices . |
| 28 | In the first the academic community denied the possibility of a biological basis of mind at all , in the second it denied the existence of mind and in the third , into which we have now entered , we are coming to accept both the existence and physical basis of the mind . |
| 29 | HAVING OPERATED both the Douglas Dakota and the North American Harvard since the 1940s , the South African Air Force ( SAAF — or Suid-Afrikaanse Lugmag — SALM ) has treated both types equally . |
| 30 | The Scuds themselves have been a nuisance , the allies having under-estimated both the number of Iraq 's launchers and the ability of the Iraqi crews to conceal them . |