Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 2 | Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published . |
| 3 | They keep on going on in the negative sense and the bulldozing here , has got you digging a big hole , and you eventually fall into it . |
| 4 | But a new thought struck him — another murder might lead his superior to assume that Surere was , after all , still hiding out in the Southern Capital , and that , too , would hardly be to Merymose 's credit . |
| 5 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 6 | On the Iraqi side of the frontier , the town of al-Amarah , on the easternmost of the three Baghdad-Basrah roads , was seldom free of military activity , with convoys of trucks and armour pouring into it , and private cars and taxis carrying battlefield coffins on their roofs frequently setting off in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | There was to be no paddling around in the shallow waters for this man , Ruth thought . |
| 8 | ( c ) Linked transactions Where there is a sale and a purchase these can be adequately dealt with on the same completion statement , thereby working out in the relevant income and expenditure columns the balance that will either be due from the client or payable to the client . |
| 9 | Whether the Government are Labour or Conservative , the inspector ought to have the right to comment , on , for instance , funding and on what is currently going on in the Prime Minister 's county of Cambridgeshire , where there have been some very severe reductions . |