Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 2 | Even if it is not a must , it is often worth applying as it helps the marker do a better job , in particular because he can use electronic tools to provide data that will aid his judgement . |
| 3 | I think he goes training because he knows the police can never find an Athletico training session . |
| 4 | The names and addresses of these bureaux are listed in Appendix I. A Green Card furnished at frontiers ensures smooth passage establishing as it does the existence of a country 's compulsory motor insurance . |
| 5 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 6 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 7 | Maybe not everything … but he 's lying when he says the Darkfall has passed . |
| 8 | Cats usually begin spraying when something upsets the fine balance of their day-to-day life . |
| 9 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 10 | Also , an SSR based on the first SSR should be generated without reference to the offending module and stating that it supersedes the first . |
| 11 | He can call his bluff and ask to see the quotations ; he can take the initiative by stating that he assumes the buyer is wishing for him to justify his price ; or , if flushed with the confidence of past success , he can say ‘ Then I advise you to accept one of them . ’ |
| 12 | It is then in the ideal position to attack from below.As the kite is pulled up , so the line is fast moving as it contacts the victim 's line and tension quickly severs the strands . |
| 13 | In any event , your Lordships ' decision in this case , re-establishing as it does the decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , renders the whole question of consent by the company irrelevant . |
| 14 | This sems to be saying that what destroys the Goddess is the Goddess . |
| 15 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 16 | ‘ But my aunt produced a piece of paper supposedly written by my father saying that he leaves the house to his sister-in-law in return for her kindness in looking after me . |
| 17 | Apple Computer Inc chief executive John Sculley has controversially entered the high-definition television debate , saying that he reckons the outlook for digital compression television is far brighter than that for high definition television , Reuter reports . |
| 18 | OPHELIA has been sewing and she holds the garment . |
| 19 | What he ca n't be saying if he understands the system is , " 1 want to vote effectively both for my first-preference candidate and for my second or any lower preference " . |
| 20 | The reduction in the intensity of the stimuli associated with the drive is as reinforcing as the actual reduction of the drive itself : thus food in the mouth does not reduce hunger , but it is reinforcing as it reduces the drive stimulus or craving for food . |
| 21 | A child rated as ‘ attached ’ to its mother at nine months ( crying when she leaves the room , for example ) may express its attachment to her again at 18 months but through a quite different behavioural repertoire ( leaving mother but repeatedly checking back ) . |
| 22 | ‘ We keep hearing that it costs the health service more than £400 million to treat smoking-related illnesses each year , but we provide £7.5 billion in duty . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We keep hearing that it costs the health service more than £400 million to treat smoking-related illnesses each year , but we provide £7.5 billion in duty . ’ |
| 24 | In reading , or being read to , one has the security of knowing that one has the ability to withdraw from the emotional situation as soon as one wishes or needs to do so . |
| 25 | He believes it funds drug dealing and he wants the Home Office to take it seriously . |
| 26 | By contrast , for example , the development of the heart is much more convoluted , involving as it does the complex folding and fusing of tubes . |
| 27 | Their surface syntax , it is argued , involving as it does the use of " existence predicates " , tends to obfuscate their true " logical grammar " . |
| 28 | The density of the development , achieving as it does the virtual replacement of existing static caravans practically one-for-one , is quite out of proportion with the density of surrounding settlements . |
| 29 | OpenVision , a new Pleasanton , California company headed by Michael Fields , former president of Oracle USA , launched its first product , claiming that it represents the industry 's most advanced approach moving vital corporate-wide applications from mainframe to client-server networks by providing mainframe-like systems management capabilities for large geographically dispersed networks of different computers . |
| 30 | Clause 8 provides the necessary precautionary provision to prevent the buyer claiming that he has the right to intellectual property arising out of any development work which the seller has had to effect in order to put himself in a position to supply the goods under the contract . |