Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Beddington , mindful of the same appointment , was rather optimistically emerging from the shop with a bottle of Lockyers Sulphur Hair-restorer , and six tablets of Amiral soap ( ‘ Removes Burden of Corpulency ’ ) . |
| 2 | The dispute became more intense in early July after Prince Sihanouk announced his approval of a Khmer Rouge plan for equal quadripartite power-sharing on the SNC , thereby effectively reneging on an agreement signed with the SOC Premier Hun Sen in Tokyo in early June [ see pp. 37532-33 ] . |
| 3 | Just altogether less demanding on the child as well as on the mother . |
| 4 | The most outspoken supporters of these methods , such as John Holt would argue that learning involves activity , one of the elements most obviously lacking in a classroom dominated by ‘ chalk , talk and writing ’ . |
| 5 | Eliot 's practice , as his remarks just quoted make clear , was always ‘ freed ’ verse : verse freed indeed from the constraints of traditional prosody , yet rather constantly recalling to the reader 's ear one of the traditional patterns it was departing from . |
| 6 | It is all right complaining under the charter to the person who runs the service about which one is complaining as long as there is a further port of call — a further person to whom one can complain . |
| 7 | She stayed in mostly looking after the house and cooking and seeing to his clothes . |
| 8 | The borrowings are converted into Sterling when drawn down thereby locking in the exchange rate and the currency borrowings are repaid from the currency receivables . |
| 9 | Try not to click with mouse and type on the keyboard while Windows is frozen because when it comes back it acts on all of the commands that you have given it — so apparently switching from a state of deep sleep to rapid activity that can look like another stage in a serious crash ! |
| 10 | lies in the fact that ‘ the offspring behave like wolves and look like dogs … this ‘ camouflage ’ gives them a tremendous competitive advantage because , as ‘ dogs ’ , they can approach garbage dumps in populated areas or herds of sheep without anyone taking special notice , much less reaching for a rifle ’ . |
| 11 | At first I spent so long feeling for the ground the engines had run down to idle , and there was a long delay before they wound back up again to produce noticeable acceleration . |
| 12 | It 's so just enquiring on the catalogue interest , we 've only got that one |
| 13 | Operating in a bleeding French market , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has a rapidly vanishing mainframe base , personal computer problems that only seem to have been exacerbated by the acquisition of Zenith Data Systems , which looks like a source of profitless volume , and a Unix strategy that is only just getting off the ground . |
| 14 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 15 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 16 | WARNER CLASSICS — Warner Classics is only gradually getting into the mid-price market . |
| 17 | With Iraq not currently exporting [ see p. 38598 ] and Kuwait only gradually returning to the market , OPEC 's other 11 member states had felt able to defer any reimposition of output restrictions , particularly in view of the serious uncertainty about Soviet supplies . |
| 18 | Can you give me any indication of the gravity of the investigation which , in your view , might justify me in deliberately withholding from the board information of direct importance to the bank 's shareholders ? " |
| 19 | Rickie , apparently still vibrating to the music , sprang up from the stateroom couch . |
| 20 | In contrast , the NNS paper , which estimated a hazard function using variables similar to Model 4 and imposed a monotone hazard restriction , found the hazard to be only slightly increasing over the duration . |
| 21 | To describe this as sewing is perhaps slightly flattering to the bird , for the silken thread is never used for more than one stitch at a time . |
| 22 | A LED or laser which behaves in linear fashion is more difficult to make , and thus more expensive , than a device with a light output only roughly corresponding to the power input . |
| 23 | No , I never saw lads er , er , the game that seemed most popular with us , I do n't know whether you have , it 's nothing only really hopping across the road . |
| 24 | So now turning to the point which er I think you asked us to address . |
| 25 | The movement became a tradition which is only now degenerating to a faction , and it is from that tradition Dr Runcie springs . |
| 26 | On this basis the rural development projects which became fashionable among most donors in the 1970s , and which were supposed to have a direct impact on the rural poor , are only now coming to the stage where a meaningful evaluation can be conducted . |
| 27 | The festivities to mark the occasion on the weekend of 5 and 6 December were attended by museum directors from around the world , a valuable boost to a city which is only now emerging from the destruction of World War II and the Communist austerities which followed . |
| 28 | Getting older may be ‘ less profoundly wounding for a man ’ , because throughout life being physically attractive counts more in a woman 's life than in a man 's , and for women especially beauty is identified with youthfulness . |
| 29 | If you climb a high peak of the Pennines , such as Ingleborough Hill , imagine Dimetrodon long ago walking on a surface which was far above you . |
| 30 | I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news . |