Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Broderick seems to have shown a nicely calculated amount of daring in trying to pick roles that give his bland fresh-faced prettiness a spin . |
| 2 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've all got gangrene from marching through that rose garden . ’ |
| 4 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 5 | Even the greatest nobles could only gain admittance by sending in presents of large sums of money : ‘ whosoever gets enamoured of her gets sucked into the whirlpool of her demands , ’ writes Dargah Quli Khan , ‘ and brings ruin upon himself and his house . |
| 6 | Tolkien perhaps found difficulty in explaining to a Jesuit why a ‘ fundamentally ’ Catholic work should cut out references to religion , but the reason is clear : he thought , or hoped , that God had a plan for pre-Catholics too . |
| 7 | We have pretty much shared responsibility in looking after the house — though they 'd probably argue that I do naff all ! |
| 8 | It was her deep sorrow and unhappiness at the tragic accident that had brought them to the United States , together with all the fraught , highly charged tension of having to be in Ross 's company for any length of time , which had taken its toll of her already precariously weak reserves of strength . |
| 9 | The 30-year-old Londoner , son of the late Graham Hill , steered his Canon Williams Renault on to the front row of the provisional grid alongside pole man and team-mate Alain Prost with a brilliantly controlled display of driving on the treacherous Interlagos track . |
| 10 | ACET already has experience in caring for children ill with the disease , particularly through its Scottish office . |
| 11 | The clearer the disclosure and the description given of the effect of the loss of protections , the more likely it is that SFA would regard the customer as having sufficient understanding to qualify ; and ( 3 ) The customer must normally give consent in writing after getting a proper opportunity to consider the warning . |
| 12 | This takes time but you have already saved time by working in stocking stitch and you are creating a work of art , are n't you ? |
| 13 | It just means sort of walking around recording |
| 14 | Jazz , which has been dogged by crippling financial troubles , takeover battles and continual re-formatting , appears to be finally making headway after launching as one of London 's first incremental stations into the recession . |
| 15 | Perhaps it 's as well that we no longer have death by hanging in this country — otherwise those last-minute reprieve calls from the Home Secretary might not happen in time … |
| 16 | In such cases the use of a professionally drafted memorandum of understanding to which all shareholders are party is recommended . |
| 17 | Clearly , in the interests of staff morale and good personnel relations , this power should be used with great care ; governing bodies should always seek advice before embarking on the process . |
| 18 | He had reassuring news for his daughter , in case she was worried about ever becoming Queen after separating from husband Charles . |
| 19 | Some sixty-three residents and thirty-seven day people enjoyed the very lively and varied sessions tutored by and — both from Surrey — and still found energy for dancing in the evenings . |
| 20 | However , even the ten-year-olds were still having difficulty in responding to the linguistic cues to the deductive mode , as was shown by the deductive/empirical experiment . |
| 21 | The only wooden stairs that never seemed to make any noise were those inch-thick slabs in modern public buildings ; house stairs always took pleasure in announcing to everybody what you were doing . |
| 22 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 23 | Instead there is searing pain , blistering of the skin and a rapidly discovered aversion to swimming in the sea . |
| 24 | If hypocrisy formally resembles irony in operating on two levels in its systematic inversion of the truth , Iago here uses an old form of irony , the mock-apologia , which is really an attack . |
| 25 | It 's not always easy or straightforward , and I still have difficulty in dealing with such sweeping generalisations as : ‘ he 's a Down 's Syndrome — they can be very stubborn , ca n't they ? ’ ; ‘ mentally handicapped … they can be quite violent if they do n't get their own way ’ . |
| 26 | The theory also has difficulty in coping with colour perception when a particular object may come in a number of colours . |
| 27 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the system also came under attack as being unfair — hence undermining consent by calling into doubt the legitimacy of both the mode of election and the government produced by it — and for facilitating the adversary relationship between the parties , a relationship that significantly influenced public policy , but did so in a manner harmful to the interests of the country . |
| 29 | It also prevents discoloration of icing by the cake if it is to be kept for a while . |
| 30 | Besides his political activities Mr. Thomas also found time for lecturing on literary , philosophical and ethical subjects in many parts of the country , and at one time he lectured almost every Sunday in the Town Hall for the Battersea Ethical Society . |