Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 2 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
| 3 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 4 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 5 | Down towards the last hour I 'm the last person to drop off just trying to leave them with as many positive thoughts and perhaps talking quietly to the odd individual . |
| 6 | It does n't work for her the mistress of the moment of sudden isolation at not seeing back to the black magician who fantastically juggles luminous hoops in the recto-rectangular hey put my mirror back . |
| 7 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 8 | Whereas a statement about services to follow will not be rendered ‘ false ’ by the services not matching up to the earlier statement , a subsequent statement which is false when made can attract liability . |
| 9 | What evidence is there that you are not living up to the appropriate standards ? |
| 10 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 11 | the end of the day saw children and parents — tired but happy — set off for home , already looking forward to the next party . |
| 12 | ‘ Jansher was warned by the players ’ chairman , Phil Whitlock , for not turning up to the official function at the Singapore Open last month . |
| 13 | The most significant outcome of this relatively simple test was an increased awareness within the section of the effects of not adhering closely to the ideal requirements of the procedure ( as reflected in the conceptual model ) . |
| 14 | Er right , just going back to the actual er roadside interview , is that one on the the B road , or is it the A ? |
| 15 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 16 | The Ahlbergs have been accused of not facing up to the harsh realities of life , of being too cosy and sweet , but their latest picture book , Bye Bye Baby , published today , breaks the mould . |
| 17 | Starting with a small dose of nystatin , and gradually building up to the full dose , also helps to avoid a Herxheimer reaction . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes please , ’ I said , all at once looking forward to the mild dulling of the senses , the ease which the evening drinks induced . |
| 19 | Imhotep had a chapel at the temple of Isis at Philae and was also linked with the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu , which had replaced a much earlier temple at the site , possibly dating back to the Old Kingdom . |
| 20 | Like Cry Freedom , A Dry White Season shows a comfortable white middle-aged man gradually waking up to the vicious inhumanity of the apartheid system . |
| 21 | That 's very interesting because we 're always going back to the earlier comment that , perhaps people like scientists , like sociologists are intelligent , but not in touch . |
| 22 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 23 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 24 | We 're dealing with the day to day running of the theatre ; shows coming in , maintenance , but also looking forward to the next productions . |
| 25 | Also responding directly to the ecclesiastical council held in Paris in 614 , Chlothar II 's edict dealt with episcopal elections , clerical patronage , and the limits of the power of secular judges over clerics , inheritance , freedom , the legal rights of Jews against Christians , and the punishment of nuns who married . |
| 26 | The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 . |
| 27 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 28 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 29 | Canada 's Norm Hadley and Glenn Ennis , widely recognised as two of the outstanding forwards during the ‘ 91 World Cup campaign , have been in Japan since late last year and are now looking ahead to the new season . |
| 30 | If the county council had its way in the Eighties , those now looking forward to the imaginative new scheme would have very little to be happy about . |