Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 2 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 3 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 4 | Yeah , she 's only coming up for six weeks , mm , a monster . |
| 5 | Last years kit had a funny , heavy sort of feel to it … and was nt very comfortable to wear … especially running around for 90 mins . |
| 6 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 7 | Guilt , or constantly thinking back to past errors , only has any value if you are able to learn from it and to make a firm decision to avoid those errors in the future . |
| 8 | Those who were educated prior to the mid-1970s may well believe that history has little to contribute to education in the 1990s because they believe it still to be predominantly concerned with narrative chronology with much copying down of dictated notes . |
| 9 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 10 | Among his worst crimes are not being married , not turning up at milking times and stealing food . ’ |
| 11 | The club has criticised the fans for not turning up in bigger numbers to support the club but now they are turning their criticism on the manager . |
| 12 | However , there were indications last night that some Communist deputies may seek to complicate the vote , by not turning up in sufficient numbers , or to delay it , possibly by as much as three weeks , to allow their own party to re-group after its recent humiliations . |
| 13 | Fabia gathered that he approved of her walking shoes , but , even so , it did not stop him from warning , somewhat severely , I 'm not turning back in five minutes . ’ |
| 14 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 15 | Anyway when I approach a thirty mile an hour bend I usually go round at sixty thus going round on two wheels — halving the wear on the tyres . |
| 16 | So just going back to these 'ates , sulphate has got sulphur and oxygen in it , a carbonate has got what ? |
| 17 | Similarly , some investors put environmental concerns uppermost on their list while others are only just waking up to green concerns . |
| 18 | By the way , just getting back to these interventions . |
| 19 | At this stage Vigilant was ten miles away moving in at eleven knots while the three other cutters were twenty miles away converging at twenty knots . |
| 20 | In Sarajevo , UN planes had already started landing at the airport before the formal announcement by the Bosnian capital that it would accept the aid , ending a protest mounted because UN relief was not getting through to 100,000 Muslims cut off by Serbs in eastern Bosnia . |
| 21 | Assaulted by a tumbler of wine and the smell of much mixed nervous human activity , I was soon crawling about on several elbows , being splashed from high above by excess wine while my eyes , ears and mouth were up there and at the same level of height of depth as everyone else , adding to the massed attempt to obliterate the loud dancing music which obliterated the loud dancing which packed the conversations into pouring constipations . |
| 22 | A reminder you 're listening to B B C Radio Oxford and Talking Sport , just coming up to thirteen minutes to six . |
| 23 | The time is just coming up to twenty-one minutes past seven o'clock . |
| 24 | Some people think that having reasons for faith is an insult to God , as if we were desperately grubbing around for make-shift reasons to believe in him . |
| 25 | Not running around with young tearaways like Radcliffe ! ’ |
| 26 | The funeral was over , and Selene grew , soon staggering about on fat legs . |
| 27 | ‘ Listen to me , young lady , ’ she said under her breath , ‘ I 'm not putting up with any tantrums . |
| 28 | We had a glimpse of that with ‘ Nothing Compares 2 U ’ ( she cried , we cried too … ) and she does n't staunch the flow ( ‘ Can you really say you 're not in pain , like me ? ’ — ‘ Speech ’ ’ ) Do n't be fooled by the slight swagger of ‘ Why Do n't You Do Right ? ’ , the fragile , breathy innocence of her ‘ Bewitched , Bothered And Bewildered ’ , we 're just warming up to those where's-my-baby-blues of ‘ Black Coffee ’ . |
| 29 | It is n't forever , I know , but there are times when I wonder if I 'm not missing out on other things that can be equally important . ’ |
| 30 | Standard hierarchical models , however , allow too little interaction between the knowledge sources : within a strictly hierarchical system , one can not interleave the processes associated with each different level of knowledge , and hence one can not allow the very early filtering out by higher-level components of what might only be partial analyses at lower levels . |