Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a condition in which managements become excessively concerned with short-term profits with a view to keeping share price high and thus avoiding the attention of bidders . |
| 2 | He was barely 20 years old and already working the nightclub circuit when he wed for the first time . |
| 3 | She tried again , unconvinced and so pulling the blow . |
| 4 | Therefore SO 2 has the potential to reduce the transmission of the solar flux , reducing the photolysis rates of key species such as O 2 and hence reducing the rate of ozone production . |
| 5 | Blackwell was the first woman doctor , graduating in New York in 1849 and later opening a dispensary on New York 's lower east-side . |
| 6 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 7 | And because of this ‘ safety net ’ there is no chance of the reader getting lost and not understanding the play . |
| 8 | As well as being profitable and actually paying a dividend back to Detroit for the first time in years , Vauxhall is an important part of the GM empire for political reasons . |
| 9 | One branch of the molluscs , very early in the group 's history , found a way of becoming highly mobile and yet retaining the protection of a large and heavy shell — they developed gas-filled flotation tanks . |
| 10 | The relic there was credited with making barren women pregnant and then relieving the pain of parturition . |
| 11 | While the mantri was working , Chola stood in front of the bull , holding its head down low and gently smoothing the tuft of coarse hair between the horns , reassuring it . |
| 12 | The Smiths were , at this time , lying low and eagerly awaiting the release of the album . |
| 13 | Karamanlis , 83 , had presided over Greece 's return to democracy in 1974 , holding office as Prime Minister until 1980 and then serving a term as President from 1980 to 1985 . |
| 14 | Probably the original intention was merely to contrast the procedure with that of a public inquiry ( where , of course , the inquiry is in full view of the public ) but for a long time the bogy of officials beavering away in private and then producing a report which damned some poor individual or organisation , without those officials being in any way accountable , was viewed with grave suspicion . |
| 15 | Duncan peeped down into the water of the loch and , just then , the wind blew strong and fast making the water splash and ripple and the green weeds slithered about under the surface . |
| 16 | A starter of courgette and wild mushroom flan is made by cooking potatoes , leeks and courgettes until soft and then squeezing the puree dry . |
| 17 | Memories abound on the tee , of Lyle hitting his seven-iron from the fairway bunker to 10ft , of Woosnam creaming his drive way to the left and almost redefining the way to play the hole . |
| 18 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 19 | The flood banks will surely be rebuilt , hopefully made stronger by the use of wire mesh , gabions or even sheet-piling and not forgetting the use of natural vegetation to consolidate them . |
| 20 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |
| 21 | Robyn heard Luke 's voice as if from a distance , deep and unexpectedly showing a trace of concern . |
| 22 | Poor Graham and myself were really starving and not paying the rent , and David really started looking after himself . |
| 23 | She had left Anne , fur-clad and ostensibly reading a book of hours that Prince Richard had given her , on a stone seat near the entrance to the rose-garden . |
| 24 | Life just has not provided them with a partner and so they wander on through their thirties and forties , still living alone and gradually accepting the situation . |
| 25 | ‘ We have already spent £2.5 million on making beaches clean and safe and regularly testing the sea water , ' says Juan Ruiz of the Benidorm Tourist Office . |
| 26 | That 's why I 'm saying to everyone that we should build it with two lanes and no more and so restricting the chance of it ever being a motorway . |
| 27 | But , Mr Bristow stresses , ‘ the key on the publisher 's part is being responsible and not overloading the store ’ . |
| 28 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 29 | They moved slowly , effortlessly , stroking her breasts with feather-light touches at first and then deepening the pressure as her flesh burned hotly under his touch . |
| 30 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |