Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 2 | Apparently warming hugs can be most ungiving and greedily grasping for the self . |
| 3 | They like nothing more than wallowing in a cool mud bath in the mornings when the sun is not too high and then resting in the shade of an acacia tree during the scorching heat which follows . |
| 4 | This one is about three hours old and still lying in the foetal position in which it emerged from the egg . |
| 5 | Politically , between-ness ‘ help[s] to abolish the frontiers of misunderstanding with frequent changes of partners loyalties convictions , free and easily stepping over the old boundaries ’ ( 43/437 ) . |
| 6 | Built in the hybrid style which has been dubbed ‘ artisan mannerism ’ , the house is exuberantly detailed and entirely lacking in the Italianate sophistication of the court style of Inigo Jones [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | Same Time , Next Year is a lively , humorous account of a developing relationship , at first sexual but later broadening into a touching tenderness , of two people long married to others , who meet once every year in a California motel for what used to be called ‘ a dirty weekend ’ . |
| 8 | On the contrary , as stated above , the ability to accommodate properly is often inadequate , imprecise or totally lacking in the visually impaired child . |
| 9 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 10 | Noisy , dark and usually reeking with the smells wafting from the ‘ squat ’ toilets and the piles of half-rotten food which students attempt to cook for themselves to save money , the campus dormitories are uncomfortable places to live and study . |
| 11 | Behind and to her right , impassive but occasionally smiling at a legal point , Richard Ingrams sat on his own . |
| 12 | Mini Jakobsen ( MSV Duisburg/ Germany ) came in as a substite and had 4 ( 4 ) great chances ( 3 times alone with the polish goalie ) and tech-boy Bohinen ( who put us 2–0 up against England at home ) was trying to be too clever when twice lobbing over the polish keeper . |
| 13 | On the other hand , if there is significant excess capacity at the agreed output , and the agreed price is well above marginal cost , then a significant output expansion would be both feasible and profitable and so reneging on the agreement could appear attractive . |
| 14 | She saw herself , wan and bravely smiling in the hospital bed , with Mark grave and repentant at the bedside … |
| 15 | Chlorinated hydrocarbons , which are some of the most persistent and environmentally damaging of the industrial chemicals , and the industrial organochlorides known as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) , are particularly soluble in fatty tissues . |
| 16 | ‘ A judicial view of modern legislation ’ is a title ingeniously contrived to embrace little or much according to the predilection of the speaker and the patience of his audience . |
| 17 | Finally , a screw-in side handle is fixed on to the alloy gear cover , offset either to the left or right depending on the user . |
| 18 | He was obviously moving left or right depending on the fall of the coin . |
| 19 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 20 | The casual shooting of a chimpanzee or a horse is surely regarded as more reprehensible than routinely stepping on a beetle or laying a trap for mice . |
| 21 | Her hand rose to her lips , soft and still tingling from the hard pressure of his possessive mouth . |
| 22 | Poisoning rats with warfarin reduces the damage but is costly and possibly damaging to the environment . |
| 23 | Dark and relentless , feeding occasionally from a ‘ 303 ’ magic wand , it severs the veins of the other three tracks and stands powerfully over them , eerie and obsessively driving towards a finish line that seems will never appear . |
| 24 | There were high dark trees on every side with slanting shafts of late morning sunlight , with the lake beyond flat and faintly glittering like a slow moving mirror . |
| 25 | ‘ And even if they really are fakes — synthetic fur — ’ she was on a roll now' — it 's made from petrochemicals and they 're non-biodegradable and therefore damaging to the environment . ’ |
| 26 | A favourite cage bird , often escaping and occasionally breeding in the wild . |
| 27 | ‘ Street violence and disorder are solidly entrenched features of the social landscape ’ , argues Pearson , at any rate in capitalist societies which necessarily generate a ‘ residuum ’ , an under-class of the underprivileged and unemployed , unintegrated and potentially threatening to the established and respectable . |
| 28 | Advertising is as poor as ever resulting in the production of ‘ The Embalmer ’ being a continued drain on Institute resources . |
| 29 | UI is rightly concerned that constantly harping on the about the incompatibilities between Destiny and Solaris will only demoralise software houses and lose applications for Unix . |
| 30 | Rachel was popular among the stall , always courteous and concerned and never asking for the impossible except with great charm and self-deprecation . |