Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exporters can raise prices in sterling terms ( so maintaining them in foreign currency terms ) without losing competitiveness . |
| 2 | These agents are toxic when given systemically , and so producing them at high concentration within the tumour is an attractive goal . |
| 3 | It might have invested too little in building its capital stock , thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals . |
| 4 | Arrau Philips is indomitable , searching , eloquent , if perhaps lacking something in sheer abandonment . |
| 5 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 6 | Again from Australia had come Sister May Kenny with her method of nursing the child incessantly in the arms , massaging the withering limbs and gently lowering them into warm water . |
| 7 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 8 | At A level , I toyed with the idea of doing physics , maths and English , and if I was just doing it for pure enjoyment I would have done it at that stage . |
| 9 | The apothecary 's rose grows at Provins in France and has the property that it keeps its perfume even when the petals have been dried and powdered , thus making it of great use to add to medicinal compounds and ensuring that they are pleasant and soothing . |
| 10 | I think oftahis erasure as a kind of trembling hypochondria always curing itself with unnecessary surgery . |
| 11 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 12 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 13 | He paused , still watching her with impersonal interest . |
| 14 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 15 | However , at the time of going to press , Berthoud , Chafer and Degania are also offering them as original equipment on their sprayers . |
| 16 | Hayling , now describing himself in Trotskyite jargon as a ‘ commercial rightist ’ , and wearing a three-piece suit to prove it , seemed determined to become a City gent . |
| 17 | It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) . |
| 18 | Though many were crumbling after the Second World War many owners are now putting them in good order . ’ |
| 19 | He 's just got me mad now telling me to good luck . |
| 20 | Gordon eats a pub lunch , meticulously coating everything in brown sauce , salt , pepper , vinegar and lemon juice to the amusement of all . |
| 21 | Mr Langdale claimed that in 1990 south London drug-dealers supplied cannabis to Northern Ireland , frequently sending it via Red Star parcels . |
| 22 | He then launched into one of his ruminative orations , reflecting on the evolution of our relations with India , hardly engaging with the Government at all , but indirectly committing himself to full support for the movement towards self-government . |
| 23 | When inserting posts or stakes into the ground for use as fence supports , good rigidity can be ensured by inserting the post through the centre of a four-litre plastic ice cream carton , then filling it with concrete mix . |
| 24 | Not until after the last Ice Age had remodelled the valleys north of the plain , overdeepening them , then damming them with morainic debris to form the great lakes of Maggiore , Como and Garda , did man evolve to the point where he left a permanent imprint on the landscape . |
| 25 | Try smearing the spanner jaws with light oil , then dipping them in fine sand . |
| 26 | If it is not feasible to move the fish , then change 50% of the pondwater , once again replacing it with dechlorinated water at the right temperature . |
| 27 | In many areas they are now however finding themselves in direct competition with Tertiary Colleges which operate under F.E. regulations and which are not constrained by school regulations . |
| 28 | But now EMI has been accused of exploiting its workforce — in particular , by deliberately sacking casual staff before they 've worked there for two years , thereby depriving them of statutory redundancy pay and other employment rights . |
| 29 | ‘ What I 'm saying is that unless you take the opportunity to see the system installed and working you 'll be missing the chance of increasing your knowledge of the product and thereby depriving yourself of valuable information . |
| 30 | There is also evidence that many who have the financial means to be mobile are actually committing themselves to post-retirement migration . |