Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no obstacle at all except a respect for logical consistency to weighing facts justly when a mistake can cost money but refusing to extend the same standards to the historicity of Bible narrative , or to shutting one 's eyes to the use of Einstein 's relativity in work on the atom bomb while publicly denouncing the theory as Jewish science or bourgeois idealism . |
| 2 | just wanting to check a few angles . |
| 3 | But he knows Bonanza will have done some arithmetic , and will be wanting to ask a few questions . |
| 4 | The Glens need to beat Larne at Inver Park to be sure of reaching the quarter-finals and manager Robert Strain is looking to make a few alterations in his line-up . |
| 5 | The point is , though , no matter how badly people might say he played that week and won — everybody 's going to miss a few fairways ; Tom Watson was just as erratic in 1983 , that 's his game and he 's no mug — he 'd got it all worked out . |
| 6 | whatever you want to do , but it 's not worth doing anything else other than we 're going to play a few games but they 're |
| 7 | Going to buy a few souvenirs to take back home ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 's in the future but it will be another chapter in the book and I am sure Joe is going to point a few things out to me and help me along the way . |
| 9 | Also it was oddly reassuring to recognise the same issues of non-participation , official steam-rollering , and apathy in case studies from Scotland and Appalachia . |
| 10 | I 'm driving them down , and I 'm going to stay a few days to help them settle in , I 'll be staying at a pub — ’ |
| 11 | So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate . |
| 12 | Yes , I think we defended quite well , obviously Ken erm is going to have a few saves each game anyway which I thought he done very well today . |
| 13 | I 'm going to have a few words with the professor . ’ |
| 14 | He was going to collect a few possessions and move into Mrs Lorimer 's for a bit . |
| 15 | Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm only going to trade a few horses , woman , nothing else . ’ |
| 17 | By this time I was beginning to gather a few ladies together who were interested in having a go at making vestments . |
| 18 | We were beginning to see a few icebergs now , incredibly blue and in all kinds of weird shapes ; we had another reminder of just how far north we were , when a biting breeze blew up and it started snowing . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm beginning to find a few clues . ’ |
| 20 | Kodak , for example , is beginning to reap the same sorts of advantage as it carefully allocates supply among all its producing units . |
| 21 | It seems the industry is just not learning because we are continuing to see the same accidents we saw 30 years ago , ’ says John Summerscales , deputy chief inspector . |
| 22 | Once everybody 's favourite fledgling PC maker , the firm — now fully grown with annual sales of $3.6 billion — is starting to suffer the same ills that it used to lampoon in its big bad competitors . |
| 23 | With older people , problems can result from continuing to drink the same amounts they became used to consuming when they were younger , then apparently without effect . |
| 24 | Then at the beginning of summer Maria wrote to say that she was coming to spend a few days with them . |
| 25 | That 's to take care of my having to hand a few bribes out as well as supporting myself . |
| 26 | They ambled along the riverbank , stopping to eat a few crickets and an earthworm or two . |
| 27 | He took a bottle of brandy into the toilet , intending to have a few sips . |
| 28 | Ameliaranne Stiggins , they suggest , has not been forced to take in washing to support the several children of her unfortunate failed early marriage — she did a New Horizons for Women course at her local community centre , passed her CQSW , and now works as a social worker in Tower Hamlets , where My Little Sister is her team leader . |
| 29 | In the informal interview it is apparent that a great deal depends on the skill of the interviewer , and perhaps two interviewers might get different responses from the same person in interviews purporting to cover the same topics . |
| 30 | Miguel smiled and greeted those nearest to him , and fell into step beside Lopez , bending to speak a few words quietly to him and his wife . |