Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an openness to life as it is , without falsification and without cosmetically touching up the serious flaws in human nature . |
| 2 | The ticket clerk , who is a villainous-looking Copt , is apparently adding up the monetary results of his last night 's murders , and dislikes being interrupted . |
| 3 | This will prevent the continuous paper feeding forwards after each section is printed out , thus joining up the four printouts automatically . |
| 4 | The reduction process consists of gradually filtering out the dependent constituents at successive levels until what is left is the most important grouping peak or the prolongational arrival which completes the argument of the entire text . |
| 5 | So you know what this is a measure of it 's not a measure of anything it does n't mean that one group 's done better than the others it just means that 's the way it 's been measured the work that they 've done has been measured by another group which is n't good or bad it 's just hopefully picking out the important criteria and applying them to the work that we 've done and the notes we 've produced and the way we 've marked other people 's . |
| 6 | Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out . |
| 7 | Being a nurse , she 's always pointing out the dire effects of too much caffeine . ’ |
| 8 | Hugues Joffre , who joined Christie 's at the beginning of the year after serving out the six months ' notice enforced by Sotheby 's when he resigned unexpectedly on the eve of last summer 's sales , made his first public appearance in King Street , hovering around the telephone bank but participating only occasionally in the afternoon 's business . |
| 9 | She stared at him from behind the barrier of her flowers , wordlessly holding out the paper-wrapped roses . |
| 10 | Before she could follow his movements he was by the coffee-table , the long fingers carefully flattening out the creased pieces of paper she had derisively hurled there . |
| 11 | In a more romantic mode , it is as though a thousand lone voices have suddenly and unexpectedly found common cause in one majestic chorus , which is now drowning out the discordant notes heard from beyond the main stage . |
| 12 | For example , if a breach were to affect the profitability of the Business , it would be unfair to compensate the Purchaser by simply paying back the lost profits when the Purchaser has paid a price calculated by reference to a multiple of profits . |
| 13 | The account in fact came from John Varnom , who was delighted to find himself placed next to Bell at a dinner party , and spent the entire evening commuting between the table and the lavatory , furiously jotting down the overheard anecdotes . |
| 14 | As he went , his path was lit by the sudden brilliance of the flames which leapt up in his rear , their hungry roar almost drowning out the agonised shrieks of the writhing human torch in their midst . |
| 15 | The issue is not that she might faint or be incapable of carrying through her role of blessing bread and wine and distributing it , then wiping out the sacred vessels , for these are not exactly arduous tasks ! |
| 16 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |
| 17 | In the corner of the shed , I find the two short planks Pa uses for leaf collecting and set about scraping up the smaller pieces . |
| 18 | He went round carrying out the usual checks , asking the usual questions . |
| 19 | Before tracing the developments of public spending control at the centre , it is worth briefly setting out the contrasting ways in which other academics have sought to analyse it in order to make my own theoretical framework explicit . |
| 20 | He touched her face gently , his thumb brushing her cheek , his fingers lightly smoothing back the straying tendrils of her hair . |