Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition . |
| 2 | The general reconnaissance raid , mounted to find out what enemy defences if any stood along a stretch of coast , developed into the assault pilotage surveys of 1943 and 1944 , secretly landing for specific intelligence of beach conditions and defences . |
| 3 | Attending external events , and giving training , including giving speeches where required to do so , thereby contributing to public understanding of the judiciary . |
| 4 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 5 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 6 | This means not only looking for good practice in the present but also looking for indicators for the future . |
| 7 | Nevertheless if they were going to fly again they were gon na pay for a seat and they 're only looking for some recompense towards a new new ticket what 's wrong with sending them a voucher y'know , a properly produced voucher that we c that 's controlled properly by and all they do is guarantee any travel at their normal travel agent , do the business , attach the voucher to the B S P |
| 8 | It was especially looking for new business in Osaka . |
| 9 | Do you think that there 's any scope for perhaps going down that road in the future ? |
| 10 | The spider may be on the web , perhaps waiting in one corner of it for a fly to become caught . |
| 11 | In my own particular section of the clothing and textiles the union fought long and hard to gain the same rights and conditions for temporary workers , and so leading to permanent employment in most cases . |
| 12 | Erm especially going up that hill at Hockerill lights . |
| 13 | Much buying in this type of trade is centralised , and in many cases the potential buyer visits the seller ( unlike industrial selling when the seller normally visits the buyer ) . |
| 14 | These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train . |
| 15 | His assembled staff stared stonily back , as he looked round at them , apparently calling for some kind of congratulations . |
| 16 | We are so lacking in any form of racism that we never actually noticed . ’ |
| 17 | Either of these ways is easy ; because your victim is carelessly drifting through another evening of everyday , life . |
| 18 | Someone had put on a record , slow , lazy music , and the couples on the floor were n't really dancing , merely clinging to each other like limpets , nuzzling each other 's necks . |
| 19 | She was merely coping with one thing after another , not achieving . |
| 20 | Even if one gets different results , they are still publishable without necessarily running into head-on confrontation with the earlier claims . |
| 21 | She marks the seasons ’ changes by the need to utter particular blessings , prepare ritual foods , explain the reasons for so doing in simple language to an infant audience . |
| 22 | Just gone , we 're obviously working to Italian time in this Italian job because we 've had really five minutes of stoppage time at the end of the first half and I 'm a bit baffled as to why we had it . |
| 23 | without perhaps compromising in some way of actually saying to you in January . |
| 24 | Thus the question raised by the application is whether we should vary the appellant 's implied undertaking and free the documents for limited further disclosure having regard not only to the public interest underlying the implication of the undertaking in the first place , but also the public interest giving rise to the recognised immunity generally attaching to this class of documents . |
| 25 | Can the Minister tell us whether Britain 's shipyards will be assured of a very early decision on a type 42 replacement , thus allowing for some continuity of work and ending the grave uncertainty in the shipyards so that men and management can get on with what they do best — building ships in British yards ? |
| 26 | In his head he was already driving through heavy rain to a life he could n't imagine . |
| 27 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 28 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
| 29 | The Ministry , the Veterinary Products Committee is now going away and they 're going to do even , even more work on it , erm , so I honestly do n't think that , that we 're going to get much more out of the Ministry until Veterinary Products Committee have come back and looked at it yet again , because the , the answer that you 'll get is that they 're already looking at that side of it . |
| 30 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S tour of England is under serious threat and Rugby Union chiefs are already looking for alternative opposition for their showpiece match at Twickenham on November 14 . |