Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will you be all right driving after that wine ? ’ |
| 2 | The B version of the play is much less accommodating to this perspective . |
| 3 | So just looking at that process , the process of making a piece of practical drama , whether it comes from text or not … the processes of assessment are very complex and far-reaching , and I think it would be very unreal to say that anybody could get to the end of that process without knowing very clearly what … the task had been , how they had approached it , how it had gone at the end really . |
| 4 | Or perhaps still according to some plan established days before . |
| 5 | The air sign , Gemini , was depicted by twin cats , ethereal in clear bluish glass , yet with an extra dimension because they were so clearly communicating with each other . |
| 6 | Yeah I mean like when I was in the park I only did it between because I was only really talking to one person at one time , but I mean like I could n't remember anywhere . |
| 7 | Drug abuse is spreading alarmingly fast according to recent government figures . |
| 8 | I received a few not so long ago complaining about this place , saying that it does not speak of God ; that it is a monument to a man-made religion ; that it ought to be pulled down and a block of flats built here instead , and the money spent on missionary work abroad . |
| 9 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 10 | ‘ Everything flat and grey , no real joy over anything , nothing to look forward to , just somehow getting through each day as it comes and giving a sigh of relief when it 's finally over . |
| 11 | Oh we 're just just getting into four gear now I think . |
| 12 | In the end it was rather like working for two pop stars . |
| 13 | With Global Strategy you can spread your investment monies widely , if you wish , whilst still only dealing with one fund manager . |
| 14 | With the folks back home still seething after last week 's World Cup disaster in Norway , Taylor 's future is on a knife-edge . |
| 15 | With the folks back home still seething after last week 's World Cup disaster in Norway , Taylor 's future is on a knife-edge in his opening US Cup game in New England 's Foxboro stadium . |
| 16 | There 's an ambiguity I suspect it it 's a in my mind rather than yours about the nuclear role , did I understand you to say that Eurofighter two thousand would not have the capability of carrying for instance the W E one seven seven , we know that the is not going to be er taken any further according to recent announcement but will Eurofighter two thousand have the capacity to carry W E one seven seven ? |
| 17 | He stared back up at them and , still almost giggling with repressed panic , said , ‘ Can I help you , gentlemen ? ’ |
| 18 | It is true that women in the main tend to be more lovingly affirming of each other , and use less competitive and down-putting styles of relating than men , but the problem is not only personal : it is embedded in all our social structures . |
| 19 | Francis Thomson , the man who for nearly twenty years has been promising to write a biography of Alan Blumlein is once again appealing for more material on Blumlein . |
| 20 | Although the party had secured only 8,360,000 votes compared with the 8,664,000 who voted Conservative , it had won most seats in parliament and it became inevitable that it should form a second minority government , once again relying upon Liberal Party support to keep it in office . |
| 21 | Following the trend to ensure compatibility of hardware and software developed on dissimilar systems , Sparc International is also reportedly working on another range of testing tools for the Sparc architecture . |
| 22 | But probably a guard had spotted it and it was right now sitting in some staff-room in Queen Street station , or Gallanach . |
| 23 | Others , did studies of ‘ youth ’ generally , but it is evident from their writing that they were really only talking about male youth . |
| 24 | You have to bowl line and length , often just relying on natural variation , and wear a batsman down . ’ |
| 25 | Or should it seek weaker competitors or new entrants who are often more accommodating to local policy , but may lack the resources to keep up with the pace of change ? |
| 26 | This is why this account will follow Guillaume ( 1990 : 99 ) in postulating that the support of the infinitive is a " generalized person " not yet defined explicitly as either first , second or third , nor even necessarily calling for ordinal definition ( cf. ( 10 ) above ) . |
| 27 | And can not last : Reliable figures are had to find , but there is little doubt that Sarawak — an area about the size of England and Wales — is today probably supplying about one quarter of the total raw hardwood exports in the world . |
| 28 | Far from commanding respect they were the object of widespread disdain and , although a few magnates became major patrons of the arts , they were in general almost wholly lacking in cultural influence over the wider educated public . |
| 29 | The growth of tree roots and their penetration and enlargement of incipient rock fractures can contribute significantly to the break-up of rock which may have experienced relatively little weakening through chemical alteration . |
| 30 | I was not quite so lacking in worldly wisdom , however , as to accept his invitation , whereupon he gave me his card — but I did not pursue the acquaintance . |