Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the role of diagnostic angiography has been defined in the investigation of angina , there remain areas of controversy in unstable angina and early evolving infarction . |
| 2 | In the event , high inflation and sharply rising unemployment worked to halve the rate of growth of real wages in comparison to the previous five-year period ( the effect was particularly marked in the manufacturing sector in Europe and Japan ) . |
| 3 | playing golf this morning having a posh lunch and then playing golf this afternoon then having a buffet supper with prize giving . |
| 4 | With webbed feet and long ruddering tail |
| 5 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 6 | If we study the annual function of social capital — hence of the total capital of which the individual capital forms only fractional parts , whose movement is their individual movement and simultaneously integrating link in the movement of the total capital — and its results , i.e. , if we study the commodity-product furnished by society during the year , then it must become apparent how the process of reproduction of the social capital takes place , what characteristics distinguish this process of reproduction from the process of reproduction of an individual capital , and what characteristics are common to both . |
| 7 | At the time of the conflict , he caught the world 's imagination through his individual style and straight talking manner with the troops . |
| 8 | The laws about wearing hard hats and regularly inspecting scaffolding and erecting guard rails aren 's just petty bureaucracy , these precautions have saved lives . |
| 9 | Everyone knew it was a piece of junk , made for the sole purpose of making a quick buck and maybe keeping Mitchum out of jail . |
| 10 | At present he is looking at renewing ITN 's contract with Channel 4 , linking into breakfast TV , negotiating for the new Channel 5 franchise and possibly supplying news programmes for cable and satellite stations abroad . |
| 11 | The long beat and fast reaching course was probably the best set by race officer Roy Withell . |
| 12 | If we have ( say ) two circuits then the forces upon each other may be calculated by determining first the magnetic field over all space and then applying eqn ( 3.90 ) . |
| 13 | Certainly , and not surprisingly , the higher stratum of more secure workers and to a lesser extent their families had access to better health and also housing provision in this period before the state played a significant role in either area — at least for as long as they remained in fairly regular work . |
| 14 | The counterpointed duet of miniature heavy breathing and onward bashing life-pump forever continues beside me in defiance of the social laws of 1973 and reminds me how innocently fresh is young life , to be soon stained and bleached in alternating frenzy before it even has time to realise just how freshly innocent it is . |
| 15 | Robyn 's mental image of a modern factory had derived mainly from TV commercials and documentaries : deftly edited footage of brightly coloured machines and smoothly moving assembly lines , manned by brisk operators in clean overalls , turning out motor cars or transistor radios to the accompaniment of Mozart on the sound track . |
| 16 | However , he got better results in his own TV film , The Ewok Adventure ( aka Caravan of Courage , 1984 ) , which he produced for Lucas , by shooting some action sequences with most of the picture area on the negative blocked off , then — working from a test strip just before the main action — matching the matte painting to the unexposed area and finally compositing action and painting together . |
| 17 | Its partly diurnal habits make this the most familiar of the six smaller owls of the region , short tail and conspicuously bounding flight . |
| 18 | Those who saw Paul VI from a distance heard only his increasingly strangulated voice and apparently complaining tone . |
| 19 | Gone was the flimsily dressed groupie with the ever-rolling joint , and in her place was a homemaker — a ‘ ballabosty ’ — in an elegant wig and demurely covering blouse and skirt , baking Chollah bread , making theme cakes , studying the Torah and , most amazing of all , performing the near-sacred duty of washing the dead . |
| 20 | There were no houses in sight ; the sea on one side and steeply rising ground on the other had so far discouraged developers . |
| 21 | Er , I , well , they 're referred to as instruction in one place and then processing specification in another . |
| 22 | So it is upon his perception of trade unions operating as industrial co-operatives and thus reconstituting society as an industrial democracy , that his hero 's place depends , a perception which trade unionism was so quickly to abandon . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes , yes , but I ca n't help wondering if it 's likely that a young man on the brink of a successful career and maybe planning marriage to another girl would … |
| 24 | There is not point , for instance , in having accurate interpretation and then serving pork chops to elderly Muslim patients . |
| 25 | Whites and Asians entertain a variety of ways in which they can advance , usually locating their careers in some long-term perspective and thus making security an important consideration . |
| 26 | First were studies of Quaternary ecology dedicated to reconstruction of the sequence of vegetation systems in particular areas and often using palynology as a technique of central significance . |
| 27 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 28 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 29 | It can be used on ceramic tiles up to 8in wide , and offers and accurate guide to cutting , accommodating angles up to 15 ° and automatically gauging grouting gaps . |
| 30 | Trying not to make a sound , I achieved a long and delicious orgasm , a heavenly mixture of sheer physical bliss , emotional release and satisfyingly agitating anxiety . |