Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is only now showing interest after pressure from Cabinet colleagues like Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine , fearful of the damage the Scottish Office is doing to the government 's shaky green image . |
| 2 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 3 | ‘ It is not easy playing game after game even for fit players it becomes a chore and you tend to pick up knocks . |
| 4 | In opposing human spirit to human force I am not simply setting cognition against physique . |
| 5 | Researchers in the 50's showed that children from middle-class families were far more likely to gain a place at grammar school than the children of the working-class and the system was not therefore providing equality of opportunity . |
| 6 | I was interested in his reiteration of the value of regional policies , because the criteria on which such a policy would be administered is of interest to one who comes from a county which is probably being hit by a more rapidly rising rate of unemployment than almost anywhere else . |
| 7 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 8 | I mean one of the problems and also perhaps losing benefit of housing . |
| 9 | They were both still standing side by side at the balustrade , elbows leaning on the top rail . |
| 10 | He went to a Jesuit school , served as an altar boy ( as did his future enemies the Snowman and the Falcon , both now doing time for espionage against the United States ) , and read law at Fordham . |
| 11 | He won further prestige when he was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for Twilight of the Gods in 1963 . |
| 12 | The British Library is now gradually coming face to face also with another side of the electronic revolution : the question of how to acquire , preserve and make available unpublished research materials which happen to have been produced in electronic form . |
| 13 | We are now routinely using LS-PCR for sex determination and are exploring its application to other situations such as the diagnosis of infectious agents where it is useful to simultaneously amplify both specific and arbitrarily primed DNA fragments either for the purposes of generating a control or for extending the amount of information gained from the amplification . |
| 14 | The most frequently occurring vowel in English is , which is always associated with weak syllables . |
| 15 | The cells were replated twice weekly using EDTA without trypsin to disrupt the monolayer . |
| 16 | THOSE keen environmentalists , Richard Branson and Sir James Goldsmith , are no longer seeing eye to eye . |
| 17 | But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’ |
| 18 | Again , she is certainly not relating word to pronunciation . |