Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a significant movement of popular protest over sex purity marked a successful assault on the authority of male professionals , thereby drawing into the political arena groups hitherto denied access or without a voice . |
| 2 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 3 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 4 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 5 | A queue had formed by the table holding the teacakes and a crowd gathered to watch the animal sacrifice slowly rotating on a giant spit . |
| 6 | A new means-tested superannuation scheme was announced to replace the existing guaranteed retirement income — thereby reneging upon a National Party election promise — the age of entitlement lifted progressively from 60 to 65 years . |
| 7 | The journals and correspondence of Verney Lovett Cameron , mostly relating to the unsuccessful attempt to relieve David Livingstone and the subsequent crossing of the African continent from east to west , were deposited by Major H. P. Lovett Cameron . |
| 8 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 9 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 11 | Because of this I shall concentrate upon the debate between them and in particular on the abstract theoretical aspects , only touching upon the practical policy implications . |
| 12 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 13 | Another way to get the flavour of Japan , but requiring a little more courage than merely eating in a local café , is to stay in a Japanese-style hotel . |
| 14 | 17.64 At age 11 , the same requirements should apply , but with the addition of two short timed tasks , one perhaps consisting of a factual account or description and the other of a short imaginative piece of prose . |
| 15 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |
| 16 | Suddenly there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 17 | Before she could answer there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 18 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 19 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 20 | He was cut short by a loud knocking at the front door . |
| 21 | They were having dinner the following day when there was a loud knocking on the front door . |
| 22 | Adam was thinking about this interesting word that used to be simply another term for pine but which originally meant a certain size of plank , from the Low German dele , when there came a loud knocking on the back door . |
| 23 | So returning to the original question about the functional difference between a DOS command and a program file , the answer is that there 's no difference . |
| 24 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 25 | In any case , she tires of their constant need for milk and leaves the earth , only returning with the necessary food to feed them . |
| 26 | They contained articles by a variety of writers ( including politicians , and teachers ) each of whom had one common aim and purpose — to show that progressive methods in both primary and secondary schools were ‘ selling children short ’ and so contributing to the general permissiveness which ( they said ) was undermining the traditions of British society . |
| 27 | Over the years the number of grade Vs has quadrupled , with much over-crowding in the top end . |
| 28 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 29 | Merely looking at the final stage of supply can obscure the full range of options open to a particular firm in its choice of serving foreign markets . |
| 30 | In a European multicentre study 40 patients with HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) infection were treated with 5 mega units of lymphoblastoid α-interferon daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , four weeks of rest and a second course lasting 16 to 30 weeks . |