Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next is a desire to maximise fixed interest rate financing thereby providing some degree of certainty as to the project 's financial cost . |
| 2 | Flowers visited by passerines are twisted such that they face back to the peduncle , on which the perching bird stands : hummingbird flowers differ in being tubular and sticking outwards making them readily accessible to hovering birds . |
| 3 | Still , I decided , there was n't much fear of Mrs Chapman accepting so insulting an offer . |
| 4 | By the end of the '70s many elements were fusing together making change in the way schools were run inevitable . |
| 5 | The example is constructed — the reader is warned because good reasons for preferring naturally occurring conversational data will be given in Chapter 6 . |
| 6 | Allen said he agreed not to bring the children to his house and abided by her rules , including only visiting the children in the hallway of Farrow 's flat . |
| 7 | Machinery overcame this skill deficiency , and did so while bringing constantly falling costs . |
| 8 | The intensity is enhanced , enabling weakly scattering or very dilute samples to be used . |
| 9 | One of the worries about the limit on inpatient waiting times was that instead of tackling long waiting it would merely shift delays and patients would end up waiting longer for outpatient consultations . |
| 10 | As well as defending her Redcar seat , Dr Mowlam is Labour spokesperson on city and corporate affairs necessitating much shuttling between Cleveland and London . |
| 11 | Walking together holding hands , not like brother and sister at all . |
| 12 | From my position as the chair of a governing body of a primary school , I do n't actually think it 's given us very much more flexibility in how we run that school or how that school is operated , and I do n't really and I find it very difficult to see the benefits of us becoming suddenly having erm the responsibility of the funding dumped on us , and therefore the responsibility of any cuts from from erm Local Authorities . |
| 13 | What 's the point of being aggressive with somebody when they 're gon na walk away feeling as if they 've just been walked all over , so you 've still got the same situation you 've got one person walking away feeling a little bit fed up and the other person not so if you talk about assertiveness in terms of aggression and in terms of submission i.e. there 's going to be a winner and there 's going to be a loser depending which way round you look at it then you still have n't quite grasped what we mean by assertiveness . |
| 14 | Next week in New York talks begin on something even more ambitious : the conversion of the Partial Test-Ban Treaty ( which bans nuclear testing in the atmosphere , in space and underwater ) into a comprehensive test ban ( ending underground testing too ) . |
| 15 | Even the novelist George Gissing , who was ‘ no friend of the people ’ and who was the most scathing critic of so many aspects of the new popular culture , has his fictional alter ego Henry Ryecroft recalling the pleasures of having been young in London , of the public houses with their ‘ pints of foaming ale ’ and the supper bars with their ‘ sausage and mash ’ , of the theatres where one could ‘ roll and hustle with the throng at the pit-door ’ , and of walking home singing as he went . |
| 16 | Dave 's mother in turn seemed to be becoming more accepting . |
| 17 | Though the successive events of the journey are exciting in themselves , dramatic irony adds an edge to them , becoming more telling as the Rat begins to guess the truth . |
| 18 | Mr Burrow said society was becoming more demanding in its expectation of the police , and the entire attitude of individuals could be based on a single experience of meeting an officer . |
| 19 | Captains , the public , and the media , in any order , all seem to be becoming more demanding in their requirements throughout all cricket . |
| 20 | After the 15-day trial in July Ann was convinced the girls would both be returning home having been cleared of the charge . |
| 21 | In 1962 he was driving home following a drinking session to ease the tensions of recording a TV play , Hedda Gabler , when he crashed into some roadworks . |
| 22 | The board promoted tourism through five counties but ceased trading yesterday leaving forty five people out of work . |
| 23 | These have proved to be such a success that there is now a virtual two month long waiting list at Tyseley with booking now stretching into April next year . |
| 24 | Your dramatic gestures will certainly mesmerize them , but they will be staring apprehensively at the glass , or laughing hysterically waiting for it to fall ! |
| 25 | We carried on walking northwards following sheep tracks through the heather and rock outcrops . |
| 26 | Medical Services are steaming ahead having had a great year . |
| 27 | Walking bloody walking I do . |
| 28 | And even in France , businesses , especially large ones , are becoming too demanding to be run by people without firsthand experience and a proven success record . |
| 29 | It was the same in the the pantomimes when Lily has learnt learnt the dancing , I could er after she had showed us about twice I could I could have it no bother and the rest of them were still struggling away trying to learn the steps . |
| 30 | Between the meetings he began to operate in earnest , seeing individually spending ministers worried that Concorde would drain funds from their budgets . |