Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this ability to produce flowers throughout the summer and early autumn that ranks them with the true annuals when it comes to creating the most colourful and long lasting planting schemes . |
| 2 | Apart from being one of the smallest ( 225 square miles ) of the 11 national parks in England and Wales , the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is also the only park in Britain which is largely coastal and mainly covering lowland areas . |
| 3 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 4 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 5 | A teacher who regards his work in this way , who sees his task as being not merely an overseer of academic progress but a mature adult who watches over and helps a child to find personal identity in an ever more complex and fast moving world may deservedly claim to be considered doing work worthy of professional status . |
| 6 | It was a more austere and intellectually demanding conception of the role of the student , though one which removed the student even more from the culture of the wider society . |
| 7 | Yet perhaps the most imaginative and far reaching scheme is the cross-curricular project developed by RFU senior coach and polytechnic lecturer Tony Butlin in conjunction with Walbottle High School and supported by the RFU and the University of Sunderland . |
| 8 | The vehicles are put away again , and the now cold and slightly unappetising evening meal is pushed back into the microwave . |
| 9 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 10 | if we were going to buy a goalie ( well fantasize about it anyway ) then Flowers would be the best bet followed by Coton , Southall is too old and rapidly becomming crap . |
| 11 | I am very , very relieved and obviously taking advice on the next steps because naturally I am not going to leave it at this . ’ |
| 12 | Against concerted action by local authorities the individual librarian would be fighting a very hard and probably losing battle . |
| 13 | Traffic 's very slow on the M four westbound at junction six , that 's the turnoff for Slough and on the M twenty five in both directions , between junctions fourteen and sixteen , there 's very heavy and slow moving traffic , that 's between Heathrow and the M forty . |
| 14 | Since it is the poet himself who is the subject , the poem comes across as a very genuine and deeply moving piece of work which regards the real feelings and fears of one who is in the process of losing his own life , rather than , as convention would have it , those of one who has lost another . |