Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 2 | ‘ There was no need to think she 'd noticed anything , and whoever he was , he was n't mad enough to go looking for extra murders . |
| 3 | Directors will only act according to professional standards of behaviour and the range of decisions available to them will be indicated by their own expertise . |
| 4 | Within a specific environment problems may be solved or they may only minimised depending upon external constraints imposed . |
| 5 | Governments were under constant pressure to provide such facilities and , in addition to politicising consumption , they constantly risked running into fiscal crises themselves or charging even higher taxes on the capitalist enterprises they were supposed to be supporting . |
| 6 | An hour or so spent talking with other women about how weak , cruel , uncaring , lazy and insensitive their husbands were always made her tired . |
| 7 | Aid workers from the Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford had apparently gone missing for 4 days in the war zone . |
| 8 | A long time ago , in 1956 , ] published a little review of a new edition of Pomiane 's delightful and much loved Cooking in Ten Minutes in my Sunday Times cookery column . |
| 9 | Its activities were only kept going by fifty enthusiasts living in London and the obsessional fanaticism of Leese , its guiding spirit . |
| 10 | ‘ Ian Wright could be in the National Basketball Association , he did so much trash talking for 45 minutes , ’ Meola said . |
| 11 | I 'm probably not compassionate or anything , I bet I 'm a real bastard inside and do n't care for anyone , but I fucking hated treading up those stairs to Mum , especially with Jean at the bottom watching my every step . |
| 12 | Corral generally prefers buying from commercial galleries rather than auction houses and she often consults the artists about the works the Museum intends to buy . |
| 13 | Partly too , because I just like looking at beautiful books . |
| 14 | He just pu , he just kept putting off important things as well . |
| 15 | A small advert was placed in the D and S Times and Wilgro 's telephone hardly stopped ringing for two weeks . |
| 16 | The occupational therapist 's role usually includes advising on suitable types of clothing for the patient , partly to make dressing simple and practical , and also so that the clothing chosen is helpful in the process through which the patient relearns to dress himself . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that he is so determined to retain control that he deliberately avoids working with famous directors such as Bertolucci , Cronenberg or Karel Reisz . |
| 18 | In the meantime more prolonged screening beyond 30 years will be required in a number of at risk individuals . |
| 19 | They are places of many moods : clear , late autumn days when the rock exhibits an embarrassing degree of friction , or the biting cold and raw-limbed excesses of a winter day , usually spent thrutching in dank clefts in an attempt to escape the wind . |
| 20 | A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks . |
| 21 | Due to the relatively small number of tags and the frequency with which some of these tags are found ( e.g. over 20% of the words in the lexicon are usually found behaving as common nouns ) there is often more than one word given the top rank in any position . |
| 22 | They could not grasp the value of setting up refuges for Asian women and to these men consulting with the community always meant consulting with other men . |
| 23 | " Regulated business " has a specially extended meaning in two respects , so widening the scope of the COB Rules . |
| 24 | Its third great function , that of providing the capital for urban and industrial development itself , it could hardly help fulfilling in agrarian countries , where there were few other sources of revenue for governments and the rich ; though it might fulfil it inefficiently and inadequately . |
| 25 | It is genuinely disorienting playing to 300 students at Lampeter University one night , and then facing a meagre 15 punters at Treadwell 's Art Mill in Bradford the next . |
| 26 | For example , G above refers only to government consumption expenditure rather than all government expenditure , which would also include spending on fixed assets ; this item is in fact included under gross domestic fixed capital formation . |
| 27 | " We also enjoy experimenting with ornamental plants and climbers , including gourds , ornamental cabbages , vines and yuccas " . |
| 28 | I also enjoy working with other professionals such as town planners and architects . |
| 29 | But Tito 's forces also began penetrating in considerable numbers over the pre-war Yugoslav frontier into southern Austria and north-east Italy ( Venezia Giulia , including the port of Trieste ) . |
| 30 | Psion Inc also began selling via retail outlets in May , and by the end of the year had some 200 under its belt . |