Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean we 're only talking about half an hour or so er at some time around about eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning . |
| 2 | In a sense , therefore , circumcision actually creates a more powerful gender distinction rather than just deriving from such a distinction - but here again one gets wrapped in inevitable strands of circularity . |
| 3 | A person 's real self-interest would lie in his not keeping to such an agreement , while others did . |
| 4 | Sweden , he said , is already moving towards such a posture . |
| 5 | The economy was not expanding in such a way as to absorb them in work , even if mothers of young children , children themselves , the aged and the disabled who made up the bulk of out-door paupers , had been able to take advantage of such expansion . |
| 6 | At the base of the chamber is a half channel , often consisting of half a piece of drain pipe with half channels coming in from branch drains . |
| 7 | Athelstan , now listening with half an ear to Sir John 's recitation , looked out of the window and wondered what had happened to Benedicta and Lady Maude . |
| 8 | A marriage celebrated between two persons , one of whom is at the time validly married , is in any case void ; and any person knowingly entering into such a marriage is guilty of bigamy . |
| 9 | The tropical and sub-tropical ice caps are now melting at such a rate that they will soon be gone , says Thompson : " Consequently , the climatic and environmental records from these regions , which may contain key information for understanding our climate systems , will be lost permanently . " |
| 10 | That would have lost them the election , even supposing that such an announcement would not also have alienated any working class Labour supporters . |
| 11 | Goodnight discounts rumours that his company could n't actually get a version of SAS to work on that particular platform , saying the firm is n't working on such a port now , and has no plans to do any other Motorola Inc 680X0 implementations besides the Unix one it offers currently . |
| 12 | Are these projectural figures which he showed us the cash flow chart over there looking like half a pyramid ? |
| 13 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |
| 14 | ‘ Why do you go on working for such a firm ? ’ |
| 15 | Hungary 's population is actually falling by 7,000 a year , according to this year 's State of the World Population Report from the United Nations Population Fund . |