Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 2 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 3 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 4 | This was all turning into Saturday-morning chapter play . |
| 5 | ‘ The government is very cautious — they say they are only talking about domestic accounting principles — but this is a big step forward . ’ |
| 6 | For this he only had to spend four months in France , thus profiting from considerable tax concessions for non residents . |
| 7 | This is especially the case when the unoccupied group is identified as largely consisting of single parent families dependent on state benefits , one of the fastest growing and most disadvantaged groups in society . |
| 8 | An LED display in the top left corner of the front panel allows the user to check input gain and compression levels ( there 's up to 30dB available if selected ) , while another display in the opposite corner indicates output level , thus warning against possible power amp overload . |
| 9 | Yes , it 's just looking for certain letter groups |
| 10 | They interact with the actin based cytoskeleton , and when stimulated may cause cytoskeletal rearrangement and have been shown to activate other cytoplasmic signalling pathways , thus acting as true transmembrane receptors . |
| 11 | In the UK , emissions of man-made hydrocarbons or VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) increased 12 per cent in the ten years to 1985 , largely owing to increased road traffic . |
| 12 | And although Europe might like to work with Russia ( the two are already co-operating on other space projects ) , Japan would probably not . |
| 13 | The pressure on feed prices came after a big Chinese order , for 1.7m tonnes of EC wheat , turned out to be largely coming from French intervention stores . |
| 14 | This is a headache for the world 's uranium producers , which are already suffering from depressed uranium prices . |
| 15 | Cracks in the temple of Hibis in the el-Kharga oasis in the Libyan desert have widened , giving urgency to the plan to move the temple which was already suffering from underground water seepage . |
| 16 | Normally the ‘ illegals ’ are handed back to China on the border almost daily , but Peking now says it will check each case , a move expected to slow repatriation to a trickle and put further pressure on the Territory 's detention centres , which are already overflowing with Vietnamese boat people . |
| 17 | The students , who are already working as racial equality officers all over Britain , have all completed the course sponsored by the Commission for Racial Equality . |
| 18 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 19 | ‘ Abd al-Karim was still recovering from serious gunshot wounds sustained during the Iraqi occupation . |
| 20 | The level of the early 1950s was abnormal in the sense that major trading nations were still recovering from internal war devastation . |
| 21 | Israel 's tourist industry is gradually recovering to pre-Gulf War levels , according to latest Israeli Government statistics . |
| 22 | Stokenchurch Dog Rescue and Welfare Society is always looking for voluntary dog walkers , blankets , towels and newspaper , as well as much needed finance so that they can continue to care for the other 70 dogs they have in their kennels at present . |
| 23 | Trading at Sherwood has been strong , showing that people are still spending on low ticket underwear despite cutting down on outerwear . |
| 24 | These have been followed by a number of local area surveys usually commissioned by Labour-controlled councils and usually focusing on inner city areas . |
| 25 | Always scrupulously wash and dry a board between uses , preferably drying with disposable kitchen paper rather than a tea towel to avoid transferring flavours or bacteria . |
| 26 | In the research library , however , scholars are still working with nineteenth-century card catalogue entries . |
| 27 | These were the main items of agricultural produce , although there were many variations in the quantity of each grown , presumably resulting from local soil conditions . |
| 28 | It is a one-fifth scale model of Endeavour , built using traditional methods , but also allowing for modern safety requirements . |
| 29 | There is no shortage of males in the flocks during pair formation , so hens are probably competing for high quality males . |
| 30 | Commercial Union is also looking at top flight equities and/or unit trusts with its CU Quilter Personal Equity Plan . |