Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fine guitarist in many styles , his band combines professionalism with wry humour and a straightforward honesty of purpose ( so often lacking in music of this kind ) . |
| 2 | These had left too many pupils of average ability or below either struggling with work beyond their abilities or following ‘ improvised ’ courses . |
| 3 | But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it . |
| 4 | Indeed , HIV could provide a means of encouraging people to broaden their sexual horizons , by not just relying on penetration as the goal of sexual pleasure . |
| 5 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 6 | U2 and close spirits are not simply fighting against lack of rock groups , or regressive traditional rock activity , but against the stiff tradition of Irish showbands , the giddy lack of pop choice or opportunity . |
| 7 | Making war in the twelfth century was rather like going on strike in the twentieth : it was a method of exerting economic and financial pressure on your opponent — it was not intended that it should end in his death . |
| 8 | The German 20th Corps was still slowly withdrawing in face of the Russian centre on 26 August , when , to prevent further retreat , Ludendorff ordered Francois 's 1st Corps to smash the Russian left wing . |
| 9 | Again he bowed , once more colouring from neck to brow . |
| 10 | Let's face it , all of us are romantic at heart , and even more so when we 're young , possibly even falling in love for the very first time . |
| 11 | He turned the truck in the direction he had pointed , Myeloski once again walking in front of the two headlights that lit his path for him . |
| 12 | The formal nature of the signature does indeed suggest that Molla Fenari was signing the document in an official capacity ( cf. the informal nature of the problematical signature , cited on p. 155 of Husameddin 's article and discussed below , where Molla Fenari has clearly been asked simply to lend his name to the proceedings ) ; and while he was most probably acting as kadi of Bursa , as the biographical sources would suggest , it should be noted that the signature is not in itself conclusive proof of this . |
| 13 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 14 | I thought of Mac , and Glamour Boy Eaton-Clark , and Henry and Jimmy , and also Rosemary , presumably now living in luxury in Dallas ( as promised by Hank ) . |
| 15 | There were two mechanisms available — the ancient , rather hazardous and capricious method that distributed spores , the wind ; and the newly arrived messenger service , the flying insects , which were now regularly moving from tree to tree , feeding on the leaves and the spores . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're damn well going to sleep with me , ’ he countered bluntly , disregarding this comprehensive schedule . |
| 17 | ‘ Six-year-olds are n't exactly brimming with curiosity about gays and lesbians — or sexuality in general . |
| 18 | At the same time the emphasis is quite naturally shifting from production for broadcast to production for use on video in the classroom . |
| 19 | But the term " Tithonian " , though not quite so lacking in respectability as the " Urgonian " , is usually reserved for the carbonate facies of alpine Europe , and is still disputing with the " Volgian " the honour of being the accepted international term for the topmost stage of the Jurassic . |
| 20 | No longer flailing with hideously encrusted , burnt and sinewed arms ; no longer bellowing in fury with the steel trap jaws of some gigantic insect or machine . |
| 21 | The coach 's argument , however well meaning in support of Roxburgh , is nevertheless flawed . |
| 22 | Fifteen degrees of flap induce marked buffet at 92 knots , with the stick very noticeably jerking from side to side at a stall speed of 85 knots . |
| 23 | VISTA made science more girl friendly in two ways : both boys and girls were offered an attractive image of a competent woman scientist , and talks concentrated on social and industrial applications of science , an element too often missing from science at school . |