Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter is relatively succinct and goes little further than identifying the major ideas concerning classification theory that have emerged during the twentieth century and before , and indicating their applications . |
| 2 | This tendency to catch and pull happens most often when approaching the workpiece , but with experience I found this can be avoided easily by working against the rotation . |
| 3 | In the first three years of the experiment not a single pedestrian was injured seriously enough while crossing the road to feel that it warranted reporting . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 5 | With this in mind , a less visually seductive format might well have allowed a more readily comprehensible layout ; serious readers do not object to all illustrations being bound together rather than fragmenting the text in this way . |
| 6 | HOW 'S ABOUT FAT , THEN : The Duchess gets as far as raising a leg but then decides exercise is just too much effort and takes the rest of the sunbathing session lying down |
| 7 | With the present London Philharmonic exceptionally alert , the skipping rhythms in compound time are sprung as infectiously as ever , nudging now rather than jabbing the listener . |
| 8 | She was so aware of his hard body , and of the undeniable sex appeal of those jeans and that white shirt , that she deliberately did not look at him , staring fixedly ahead while noting every detail of him as though it was being burned into her brain . |
| 9 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 10 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 11 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 12 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 13 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 14 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 15 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 16 | One even went as far as giving a story to a newspaper that the couple would share the same bed in Korea . |
| 17 | But like Tron , it could go no further than creating a transparently synthetic world . |
| 18 | By the time the children have grown up , the marital relationship can be very empty , often extending little further than sharing the same house . |
| 19 | I doubt whether the working party will get any further than recommending the status quo , because I 'm absolutely sure in my own mind , that it is a duty that this council has to support village schools , where the parents support them , and where they 're educationally beneficial , to support them in the village communities , because they are , they have other importance than just education . |
| 20 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 21 | ‘ If you want to sell and get as far as enticing a buyer , whoever it is will have the place surveyed , and any surveyor knowing his job will condemn it out of hand . |
| 22 | You may well decide to twist even further when using the front punch , but beware that your situation is weakened should the opponent immediately counter — attack . |
| 23 | But , erm , at the initial stage , the problem of order , really goes no further than asking a factual question . |