Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 2 | Income tax is by far the most important direct tax , alone contributing almost 26% of government receipts . |
| 3 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 4 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 5 | In the above I have assumed that we are dealing only in values , and that we are not considering how prices of production , average rate of profit , etc. , are formed by the introduction of ‘ Dept . |
| 6 | Although my efforts would make Mr Walt Disney cringe , they were popular enough with the children of Navan , and I was soon handing out picture after picture — all free , courtesy of Navan shopping centre . |
| 7 | The document has been criticized by environmentalists for merely offering suggestions and not setting out proposals for action . |
| 8 | This method dispenses with the old image of workers laboriously laying down layers of fibre in a mould and adding resin by brush . |
| 9 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 10 | Around 330,000 people are already subscribing around £21 per month to receive up to 35 channels per day , according to figures released yesterday . |
| 11 | Still sucking in lungfuls of air and wincing at the detonating roar of Duvall 's automatic pistol , Cardiff began to haul himself to his feet again by one arm , his gun hand hanging limp . |
| 12 | Some enterprising yards install big washing machines and then offer a horse laundry service , usually charging about £5 per rug . |
| 13 | The ESF Unit ( Electronic Sow Feeding Unit ) at the NAC Pig Unit , put up using around £250,000 of company money eight years ago , has achieved 25 pigs reared per sow per year . |
| 14 | However , News Corporation is also taking on $48million of debt as a result of the transaction . |
| 15 | Products designated as sportswear have also taken a more significant share , now representing almost 9% of volume . |
| 16 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 17 | It requires little research to do so , largely because West German specialists and journalists rushed across the frontier and came back gasping out tales of air pollution four times worse than West Germany 's , of mercury levels in the Elbe that were 250 times EC limits , of forests where 40 per cent of the trees are sick . |
| 18 | The Cheviot housing association is slowly taking over property in South Meadowell . |
| 19 | No , but I 'm not , I 'm not in business to run around picking up pieces of wood |
| 20 | Forests , near water , feeding mainly on fish ; spends much time on ground , even trampling out trails along stream banks . |
| 21 | He would disappear into the Orient for months , regularly sending back shiploads of jewellery , pottery , textiles and works of art , of exotic styles and astounding quality . |
| 22 | But there are changes in what readers know automatically , even leaving aside questions of education , social background , gender , ethnicity or age . |
| 23 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 24 | By the time we do our morning and the , you 're then getting up sort of thing you see |
| 25 | A middle-aged man was bending over one of the beds , sadly digging up clusters of gold and russet dahlias . |
| 26 | The Equine Research Station in Newmarket is currently carrying out research into azoturia ( set-fast , tying-up , etc . ) |
| 27 | This is associated with those defects , imperfections , undesirable traits of character , disposition , temperament , etc. , characteristic of imperfectly coordinated people struggling through life beset with certain maladjustments of the psycho-physical organism , which are actually setting up conditions of irritation and pressure during both sleeping and waking hours . |