Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I can put both feet flat on the floor and stand up straight without slouching or bending a knee or looking strained in any way . |
| 2 | Replacing the motherboard or fitting one of these accelerator cards is a fairly simple job , if you 're confident to do it , but those of a nervous disposition would be well advised to seek assistance from their local dealer , who ought to be able to do the job very quickly . |
| 3 | Ah yes , the mystic east , flying carpets , romance on all sides , and on the long sandy beach around the translucent waters of the bay at Ortakent you can laze your days away doing little else than looking deep into each other 's eyes . |
| 4 | The researchers , Wilfrid Bach and Atul Jain , used current projections of the carbon dioxide contribution to find that warming due to this gas alone between 1986 and 2050 is 1.43C . |
| 5 | Ferrier showed that if the whole of this region was removed , then paralysis ensued , whereas sparing any of this region allowed the recovery of motor function . |
| 6 | This special responsibility for verifying compliance with Community minimum requirements is known as ‘ home country control ’ and will be of increasing practical importance for UK businesses which venture abroad while remaining subject to such home country control . |
| 7 | Both are as entitled as any other separating couple to find happiness , though it is hard to see how they will find it with a new partner while remaining married to each other . |
| 8 | Notice that already , in talking about different tones , some idea of function has been introduced ; speakers are said to select from a choice of tones according to how they want the utterance to be heard , and it is implied that the listener will hear one-syllable utterances said with different tones as sounding different in some way . |
| 9 | Nothing his old man did in the rest of the trip came close to commanding such respect as falling asleep during that take-off . |