Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 2 | The point is that Carter USM are in the same position in America as they were in Britain two years ago , constantly gigging and doing pithy radio plugs to make their mark . |
| 3 | There 's also been a particularly extreme case ; last year in July when a Northampton man was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for merely kissing and fondling another man in a churchyard in the middle of the night . |
| 4 | Reinscription is an oppositional practice which is also a perspective and language ( sensibility ? ) constantly interpreting and re-presenting all sections of a culture including its dominant and subordinate fractions , its conventional ( e.g. heterosexual ) as well as deviant ( e.g. homosexual ) identities . |
| 5 | Over and over again , Tchaikovsky makes his pieces something much more than a mere salon diversion by forming his tunes out of small , constantly changing and evolving melodic cells . |
| 6 | In 1767 one of these thinkers , Lemercier de la Rivière , in his L'Ordre naturel et essentiel des sociétés politiques ( 1767 ) , presented such a ruler as not legislating in any positive sense but merely declaring and applying fundamental laws which were immanent in the nature of things , in the structure of the world as it is and must be . |
| 7 | Gaultier and Montana lead the way by day , inventively re-cutting and styling traditional sportswear shapes . |
| 8 | I bear this in mind for my next visit and reflect that I am already learning and making mental notes about this hitherto unfished — by me at any rate — stretch of river . |
| 9 | Things are so serious they 're actually not arguing and blaming each other . |
| 10 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 11 | The public and especially hospital consultants are rapidly realising and acknowledging that Trust hospital status is a genuine attempt to address local health needs which is providing increasingly successful health care . |
| 12 | quickly assessing and understanding face-to-face situations . |
| 13 | ‘ … while the uniformity and lack of explicit organization of production systems are touted as their most desirable features , attendant difficulties of dynamically organising and controlling coherent problem solutions must be seriously considered in problem domains requiring careful allocation of computational resources . ’ |
| 14 | People are still injecting and sharing dirty equipment . |
| 15 | This is a vast and still very valuable chronicle of sexual behaviour and beliefs , essentially descriptive in form , ostensibly classifying and categorising sexual forms that exist ‘ in nature ’ . |
| 16 | This means that SCOTVEC now has a unique role , both accrediting and awarding vocational qualifications . |
| 17 | Critical reservations about New Historicism are overwhelmed by the benefits it has produced in forcing us to reconsider the relations between texts , historical contexts , and the methodologies we use in both establishing and unravelling these relations . |
| 18 | Although the highlights of the visits were to be commissions to write for the stage , the bulk of Mozart 's time was taken up writing and performing instrumental works for private performances . |
| 19 | The smoking minority should be entitled to choose whether and when they will give up smoking and to take short smoking breaks during work time . |
| 20 | I looked in the direction he was pointing — Roman villa , vestal virgins ' tent , WI stalls with Aunt Bedelia and Mrs Cartwright frantically buttering and jamming home-made scones , street theatre , Punch and Judy , and there 's old Jeremiah just passing the jazz band with his fingers in his ears . |
| 21 | Since taking up running and cycling two years ago , I have suffered the ravages of chest infections , colds , blisters , aches , pains , general wibbly-wobbliness , strained ligaments ( which kept me on crutches for a fortnight ) and I 've never felt better ! |
| 22 | It meant that , by carefully counting and scoring different animal actions in given time periods , I could make complicated analyses that helped to unravel the intricate behaviour patterns that existed in so many species . |
| 23 | In addition , entries in his diary indicate that he was both copying and selling these films . |
| 24 | They are added to rinse water to speed up drying and to achieve shiny finish without spotting , smearing or other blemishes . |
| 25 | Massey has also added an electronic device on its 6-cylinder tractors for automatically raising and lowering semi-mounted ploughs at the headland . |
| 26 | Different varieties of crystals might earn their passage to new streams , not by crumbling into dust ‘ seeds ’ , but by dissecting their streams into lots of little streamlets that spread around , eventually joining and infecting new river systems . |
| 27 | Excavation , the unearthing , examination , and recording of archaeological sites , is most people 's idea of archaeology , despite the fact that in many countries far more valuable work is done by accurately locating and plotting unknown sites , rather than by excavation . |
| 28 | Increased submucosal immunoreactivity was found only in Crohn 's disease , in whch TNF α positive macrophages tended to cluster around arterioles and venules , often infiltrating and disrupting vascular endothelium . |
| 29 | Small herds introduced into northern Canada and Alaska during the twentieth century are now flourishing and helping local economies . |
| 30 | Manufacturers of suntan lotions are now expropriating and synthesizing these materials . |