Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually , countries are coming to their senses and realising that non-stop exploitation of rainforest resources is not a long term answer to poverty . |
| 2 | ‘ If a similar crime clock for industrial deaths were constructed … and recalling that this clock ticks only for that half of the population that is in the labour force — this clock would show an industrial death about every four and a half minutes ! |
| 3 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 4 | Even in an era of Aids there is a difference between saying ‘ There is no safe sex ’ and saying that unsafe sex is a form of Russian roulette . |
| 5 | Plaintiffs ' solicitors should remember that the range of claimants was extended by the decision of the House of Lords in McLoughlin v O'Brian [ 1982 ] 2 All ER 298 to include , in that case , a wife and mother who suffered nervous shock on seeing her husband and children apparently badly injured in hospital after an accident and learning that one child had died . |
| 6 | The sufferer has to learn to live in reality , blaming self rather than others for his or her own problems and recognising that unconditional love could only be received when it is equally freely given . |
| 7 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 8 | This mainly involves monitoring speed limits and ensuring that all craft are licensed to use the waterway . |
| 9 | Similarly , the family metaphor celebrates the idea of having cooperation among the members of the enterprise and ensuring that any conflict will be directed towards the outside world . |
| 10 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 11 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 12 | Then she fell upon him , leaning out and abandoning herself to his grip , throwing both legs up until she was rammed to the hilt of him , and feeling that marvellous pulse as he squandered his month of continence into her , spending on and on . |