Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both features she is also seen to embody a wider set of assumptions about Mexico itself ; exotic , passionate , yet constantly struggling against pain and deceit . |
| 2 | Rob was so obviously brimming with enthusiasm that Merrill had to say carefully , ‘ I think it sounds delightful . ’ |
| 3 | Less aggravating in manner than Temple , Richmond Palmer , the Resident at Katsina , stood higher in gubernatorial favour . |
| 4 | With children constantly moving between evacuation and reception areas , endless administrative problems arose . |
| 5 | Not so rugged as they once were , America 's oilmen spend more of their time moaning to politicians and colleagues at seminars about imports , environmentalists and taxes , and less drilling for oil and gas . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's obviously complaining of pain or discomfort , ’ Lindsey commented . |
| 7 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 8 | With cool detachment he had explained clearly and in terms that were easy for her to grasp how the various items of equipment worked , only lapsing into irritation or sarcasm when he thought she was not making enough effort . |
| 9 | What neither the philosophers nor the sociologists seemed to grasp was that Mannheim was interested in a different aspect of knowledge than they were , one which was far more radical than merely arbitrating between truth and falsity . |
| 10 | In general the difficulties can be categorised as those which were hard because they were unpleasant tasks in themselves ( eg dealing with sickness or incontinence , washing soiled clothes ) ; those which were hard because of the dementia sufferer 's behaviour or characteristics ( eg he or she was uncooperative , aggressive , heavy ) , and those which were hard because of features of the carer 's life or characteristics ( eg the journey to the dementia sufferer 's home was a long one , the carer 's spouse disliked her helping , she had no washing machine , she found it hard to manage caring tasks as well as her work ) . |
| 11 | When the Israelite desert tribes entered Canaan , they found a land not only flowing with milk and honey , but full of weeping and laughter in its religious rituals , quite different from anything they had known . |
| 12 | One fact that was used to support the idea of a recent origin was the recognition that the human race is obviously evolving in culture and technology . |
| 13 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 14 | Graham had a sudden , strange image of the train in its tunnel suddenly bursting through clay and bricks into the canal tunnel under Sara 's flat ; taking some ancient subterranean wrong-turning and missing the station entirely , smashing into the darkness and water of the old canal under the hill . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's just not possible for me to pack a briefcase and go and stay in a Hilton somewhere looking for business and agents . |
| 16 | Indeed , with embryonic OLTP products like Unix System Labs 's Tuxedo , Transarc Corp 's Encina and now IBM 's CICS/6000 already struggling for mind and market share , X/Open will be under pressure to avoid the problems that it faced — and to some extent still does — over the lack of a standard for graphical user interfaces , GUIs . |
| 17 | So RE needs to attend to encouraging pupils consciously to get beyond just looking for information or entertainment and see that there is a quite different way of looking at things . |
| 18 | This is shown in sample 2 , where six stitches have been used , but you can see nine stitches just as easily according to yarn and tension . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , so far she 's just sketching with pencil or Conte stick . ’ |
| 20 | Cold , wet , tired shepherds , — trudging round at the dead of night — newborn lambs already suffering from exposure and ewes with wet coats often unable to give borderline lambs that vital warmth which makes all the difference . |
| 21 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 22 | In this case just swapping between bass and guitar is no problem . |
| 23 | Born in Singapore thirty-one years ago , with a dash of French blood in his Asian veins , brought up on Hawaii , he did two years at the University of Hawaii , but concentrated on attending some of the tougher colleges of the North Shore before finally graduating from Pipeline and Sunset to take his PhD at Waimea in the early eighties . |
| 24 | Maybe if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest without just resorting to violence or vandalism of some type , without the first step being breaking the rules ; but we do n't . |
| 25 | Obviously , we are no longer talking about faith or belief at all , let alone legitimacy , but about confusion and indifference , stability and efficiency . |
| 26 | The coroner laughed and was still bellowing with mirth as Athelstan urged his horse forward out into the street . |
| 27 | I was still weeping with fright when Uncle Bill put me to bed . |
| 28 | ‘ You know I 'll have to go , ’ Maggie said tremulously , not yet back to earth , her body still shivering with delight and reaction . |
| 29 | ‘ But it 's early , ’ said Carolyn , still shivering with fear and surprise . |
| 30 | With the company 's founder , Toshio Sumino , still acting as chairman and president , and owning 16% of the firm , Autobacs is the sort of entrepreneurial company investors like . |