Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice could see Legion 's body splitting into a firework display of multi-coloured fronds , and slowly drawing together into a hairy black ovoid supported by three pipe-cleaner legs . |
| 2 | Elite performers often launch an attack as soon as the switch-change occurs , suddenly darting forwards with a powerful attack before the opponent has time to re-calculate your distance from him . |
| 3 | Ecosystem was a term proposed by the plant ecologist A.G. Tansley in 1935 as a general term for both the biome which was ‘ the whole complex of organisms — both animals and plants — naturally living together as a sociological unit ’ and for its habitat . |
| 4 | THESE four happy boys were eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled family Christmas . |
| 5 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 6 | It has been suggested , however , that there are different strategies at work for adults and children , the former requiring more formal language learning situations and perhaps benefiting more from a grammatical approach ( Krashen and Seliger , 1975 ) . |
| 7 | Sir , we are obviously dealing here with a new settlement of ve very extensive land take , I think that the there are certainly been quite a There 's been a lot of detailed work done by the various erm protagonists around around the table today about agricultural land quality . |
| 8 | The bar was crowded with men coming off shift from the electronics factory all arguing heatedly about a disputed penalty in a soccer match being shown on a T.V. set above the counter , the fact that the match had taken place two months before in no way diminishing the fervour of the argument . |
| 9 | Suddenly , the stillness was punctured by the characteristic bark of a Stanier 8F working hard against a severe gradient . |
| 10 | The fact that Europe was split into ten zones reflects the politics of the global system rather than its technology , and suggests that ‘ the world is not shrinking everywhere like a deflated balloon , but very irregularly , more like a dried apple , furrowed and distorted ’ ( Cherry , 1978 , p.135 ) . |
| 11 | Go through an unobtrusive door at the back of the Trent Bridge pavilion then turn left into a book-lined room , and on any match day you 'll find the central table occupied by the owner of a moustache of impressively Victorian dimensions , like as not tapping away on a venerable-looking typewriter . |
| 12 | Soon , though , the rising tide , which was already rushing inshore through a shining network of smaller channels , would pour into this main one and fill it up . |
| 13 | Back in the city there were thousand of people doomed , dying and all unnecessarily because here was plenty , here was sufficient for the whole city and possibly the greatest sin that you and I can be guilty of and that the church is generally guilty of , but you know when we talk about the church generally its , its so easy because that 's general , you and I that are the church , not the denomination , not the organization , it you and I , possibly the greatest sin that we can be guilty of is the sin of silence , I 'm not talking now about a rude , belligerent , discourteous , butting hole , button holding of people , I 'm not talking about that , I do n't see any place in gods word for that sort of attitude or that sort of approach but are we still silent , what about with those with whom we have the right , because we 've created a relationship , because they know us and they 've seen us and they 've seen the experiences we 've gone through and they 've seen what god has done in our lives , what about with those people do we wait for others to do it , shifting the responsibility . |
| 14 | With boards travelling at up to 25 knots , the emphasis is on not falling since in a few seconds the fleet will have zoomed past and gained a huge advantage . |
| 15 | I wish that we had been able during the last few months to persuade our European colleagues that we are not arguing just for a narrow British position . |
| 16 | I 'm just thinking maybe of a central diary or something , that someone would keep , someone who you know you could relay them with phones |
| 17 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 18 | Keep climbing up the fell side , gradually bearing right to a small cairn at the end of the ridge where several paths meet . |
| 19 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 20 | President of ERC , Richard H. Rau is also looking forward to a successful partnership . |
| 21 | She won a case of wine and is also looking forward to a super weekend break in Champagne , France , courtesy of Arblaster & Clarke . |
| 22 | Tyndale published an Answer , laboriously defending his translations and quite erroneously describing More as a hireling ‘ wanting to get honour , promotion , dignity and money by help of our mitred monsters ’ . |
| 23 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 24 | They 're OK , we guess , which does n't say much for them until you realise that thousands of their guitar-laden brethren are desperately striving to funk up and freak out and end up sounding merely like a 15th rate version of something that was once quite good . |
| 25 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 26 | The scheme involves unwanted good quality furniture being offered to families or individuals in need and its continuing success means it is now operating self-sufficiently with a small excess of income over expenditure . |
| 27 | Dave says he 's really looking forward to a nice day |
| 28 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 29 | Trainer Jimmy Etherington , who submitted a ‘ friendly ’ claim of £9,354 to ensure taking the filly back to Yorkshire , is now looking forward to a long winter 's break when the turf season closes on Monday . |
| 30 | A small market town which has lived off the land for centuries is now looking forward to a high-tec future . |