Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 2 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 3 | Journalists then get their hands on the beasts , spend an hour or so flying the aeroplane and give their readers and potential customers a definitive report on the aeroplane . |
| 4 | Usually this was limited to ‘ rough treatment ’ ( defined as pushing , slapping , or roughly handling the victim but not punching or kicking her ) , but in 13.6 per cent . |
| 5 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 6 | Equally worrying to the BMC is that the centre negotiated its own private access agreement without consulting or even informing the council or its access officer Bill Wright . |
| 7 | It was about unravelling the merger mistakes of the 1960s : splitting up conglomerates , or else buying a firm and selling off divisions that were remote from its main business . |
| 8 | Mrs Nutt submitted that it would be difficult , if not impossible , for the appellant to try and set about to prove that the co-defendant had not committed an act of gross indecency with him , that he was in effect deprived of any opportunity of cross-examining or otherwise challenging the co-defendant and that to admit the evidence would be simply to render the proceedings against the appellant wholly unfair . |
| 9 | Oblige , like force , evokes more than merely producing an effect and it too is followed by the to infinitive : ( 164 ) … servants , whom he had obliged to accompany him . |
| 10 | But there is more to successful management than just picking the team or being a gifted coach , just ask Ray Harford or Mel Machin , respectively sacked by Luton and Manchester City because their public image was n't considered good enough . |
| 11 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 12 | To quote the Federation 's annual report for 1948–49 , ‘ one purpose of the Federation ’ is ‘ that of bringing together in a friendly atmosphere the members of different Branches and Groups and thereby strengthening the unity and spirit of the WEA in Essex ’ . |
| 13 | Why should God bother with someone who chose deliberately to do something foolish ? ) , so I concentrated on every step , placing my feet carefully among the slippery clods and only enjoying the prospect and the blanket of stillness when pausing for breath . |
| 14 | As a solver of non-machine systems he was pre-eminent , through intuition , experience , and dogged persistence producing answers to problems of the most difficult and complex kind and constantly improving the speed and elegance of the methods used . |
| 15 | We were drinking out of glass tumblers with British Rail logos on and generally chewing the fat and putting the world to rights . |
| 16 | A thunderstorm in Cambridge had struck a public house , demolishing the upper portion of the chimney , splitting the rest down and finally striking the landlady and knocking out all her front teeth . |
| 17 | Having established this knowledge a system of ideas has been formulated for intervening and hence preventing the disease or problem . |
| 18 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 19 | ‘ Watch your step in future , ’ he rasped in warning , standing up and irritably balancing a bag or two against his leg . |
| 20 | Whenever I motor past , I imagine what a joy it must have been once upon a time to see him in action around the commons and village greens , stroking that famous beard and then scattering the pony and traps with his magnificent blows . |
| 21 | Presumably , therefore , a House of Commons bent on pressing a Bill to extend the life of Parliament could do so by first abolishing the House of Lords under the Parliament Act procedure and then passing the Bill and presenting it for the Royal Assent . |
| 22 | It had happened by accident , almost , just buying the furniture he liked as he saw it , odd pieces here and there , and then choosing the carpet and curtains in the expensive London store where he had happened to be making inquiries about another crime . |
| 23 | It certainly is n't simply a case of just reading up on the reviews , playing around with a couple of the likely programs and then buying a system or two and expecting peace , harmony and perfect publications to be the end result ! |
| 24 | It is possible to get cheaper tickets but you risk landing at 3am and then facing an hour or more coach journey culminating in a vagrancy charge because all the hotels are shut . |
| 25 | He was in a curiously elegiac mood , moving soft on silken feet in deference to the sadness in the place , now and then touching a tree or a still-surviving piece of stone in a placating greeting , apparently apologising for his presence . |
| 26 | The cold water cistern is drained by shutting off the mains stopcock ( or , if fitted , the servicing valve ) and then opening the bath and basin cold taps . |
| 27 | The introduction of the National Curriculum , grant-maintained schools , open enrolment , and , earlier , the creation of the Manpower Services Commission ( later to become the Training Agency ) , are examples of central government seizing the initiative and significantly influencing the control and direction of education . |
| 28 | You run an intersection , looking neither left nor right but simply slapping the gas and driving across . |
| 29 | For instance , it 's possible to bend the strings behind the slide , using the end joint on your first finger like a kind of mechanical lever , while still keeping the slide and the vibrato completely in tune . |
| 30 | Wearing the suit , she weighed three hundred kilos and felt as graceful as a rhinoceros ; as soon as she was outside she 'd feel almost weightless , and the suit 's systems would give her the strength of a robot while hardly affecting the speed and ease of her movements . |