Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six , among 55 individuals banned by a High Court judge from trespassing on or causing a nuisance at the site , joined 500 others in a peaceful invasion of the construction site ; 27 were arrested . |
| 2 | Some people think that holding the wing down or putting a tyre on the wing will stop the glider blowing over . |
| 3 | ( b ) Notwithstanding paragraphs ( 2 ) and ( 5 ) ( a ) of this rule , a registered foreign lawyer will not be in breach of these rules by virtue of setting up , operating , actively participating in or controlling a business outside England and Wales , provided : |
| 4 | It is fair to say that in the last instance , it will not actually produce a design with the colours separated out into their appropriate rows , but will make a card design showing the colours so that punching a card from this is made easier . |
| 5 | It also offers 3D spreadsheets so that changing a value on one spreadsheet automatically changes a related value in another one . |
| 6 | The first note , Disqualification of Directors — Statutory Reports , provides an explanation of the procedures involved in filling in and submitting a D-form to the disqualification unit at the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | But , now , Volks actually looked at erm buildi putting a lift in and building a lift to it . |
| 8 | And since even a polygonal story should have at least two sides in all international farewell orgies , how about packing it in and having a bash at normal behaviour eh , so as to get bashed again as whipping boy despite my morseled-out attempts to break free or go shiating on , turning the other cheek to sheer cheek as sitting target for the unclear missiles of affreux dizzy acts or as wailing wall of blame beyond the demarcation line or bowstring frontier that will boomerang back and much joy may it give me. ( 102 ) |
| 9 | ‘ What , like this ? ’ you 're supposed to have said , reaching down and rapping a leg with your knuckles . |
| 10 | The goal is made concrete by writing it down and making a commitment to it . |
| 11 | The groups took part in a number of incident simulations — attending to accident victims at the scene of an air crash , getting to the roof of a four storey burning building using an ariel slide to get down and rescuing a pilot from the bottom of a swimming pool . |
| 12 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |
| 13 | I have had the former fitted up with Drawers for birds and books in hope to work going along and taking a quantity of birds with me as well as left over plates to cut up for box books etc . |
| 14 | Colin Parry breaks down while making a speech during his son Timothy 's funeral yesterday . |
| 15 | Most owners tend to overestimate the worth of their businesses , especially when seeking a loan for improvements or for refinancing . |
| 16 | So when choosing a card for tuck you should not be able to count more than four blanks vertically anywhere on the card . |
| 17 | She had endowed the marriage ( and he could never really like the fellow ) most extravagantly out of her invested money , rather than taking a dip among the jewels that she never wore . |
| 18 | It now became easier to send multiple copies of papers to colleagues rather than sending a file on the circuit of an institution . |
| 19 | When searching for the right adjective , bear in mind that your effect on the reader will be stronger if you can create physical sensation , if you can make the reader conjure up a colour , a texture , a smell or a sound , rather than using a word like ‘ soothing ’ , or ‘ lovely ’ or ( worst of all ) ‘ evocative ’ . |
| 20 | In Lakoff 's case , it might be a reflection of her training in the Chomskyan tradition , which urges the analyst to examine her own intuitions rather than collecting a corpus of data . |
| 21 | Only the Lithuanians accounted for so large a proportion of the population of their own republic , and the measure was widely seen as blocking rather than facilitating a transition to fully independent status . |
| 22 | Many readers are hindered by inaudibly ‘ pronouncing ’ each word rather than scanning a group of words to get the meaning of a sentence and rapid reading classes can be helpful in correcting this deficiency . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , aim to give the dog a good run every day , rather than undertaking a marathon at the weekend , for example . |
| 24 | And multi-player games are good for business : groups of friends will have to buy more than one copy of each game , rather than sharing a set of different games . |
| 25 | Through their involvement , rather than creating a platform for development , people were letting the government off the hook by attempting to find superficial and limited solutions to deep-rooted structural problems . |
| 26 | ‘ Rather than creating a chasm between purchasers and providers , we need to build bridges across the gap and enable people to move backwards and forwards from care management to service management , ’ she says . |
| 27 | This feature is predicted by the pulsating cusp model : a pulse of reconnection is envisaged as initially producing an equatorward motion of the open/closed boundary , rather than causing a burst of poleward flow ( with the boundary static ) . |
| 28 | Rather than providing a survey of English Literature , the ten units are aimed to guide students towards acquiring the linguistic and critical awareness which will enable them to read for pleasure , discuss and write about literature . |
| 29 | Until recently the arts have placed too much emphasis on educating non-disabled people rather than providing a medium for communication with each other . |
| 30 | Yet rather than forming a point between structure and agency , perhaps the role of community groups could be better represented in terms of a continuum between civil society and the state . |