Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 2 | We must make sure we do n't keep on disturbing the seed 's growth by constantly going back to the same people and badgering them . |
| 3 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 4 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 5 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 6 | Er right , just going back to the actual er roadside interview , is that one on the the B road , or is it the A ? |
| 7 | Our choice would be a former IBMer who has carved out a successful career running another computer company — Comdisco Inc chief Ken Pontikes is already facing up to the same problems besetting IBM , and despite his protestations , there 's always Ross Perot . |
| 8 | Starting with a small dose of nystatin , and gradually building up to the full dose , also helps to avoid a Herxheimer reaction . |
| 9 | Imhotep had a chapel at the temple of Isis at Philae and was also linked with the Ptolemaic temple of Horus at Edfu , which had replaced a much earlier temple at the site , possibly dating back to the Old Kingdom . |
| 10 | Like Cry Freedom , A Dry White Season shows a comfortable white middle-aged man gradually waking up to the vicious inhumanity of the apartheid system . |
| 11 | That 's very interesting because we 're always going back to the earlier comment that , perhaps people like scientists , like sociologists are intelligent , but not in touch . |
| 12 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 13 | The Samukhela , people who are always harking back to the good old pre-independence days and want to emigrate , are addressed in the first song : ‘ But Samukhela when you get there you 'll think of home — the home of Africa … you 'll miss your mother you 'll miss your father ’ . |
| 14 | The family Olive Saunderson married into had a story to equal her own , also stretching back to the seventeenth century when Zachariah Field left Yorkshire to settle in Massachusetts as a yeoman farmer Norman Field 's father was born there in 1831 . |
| 15 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 16 | But I mean , one of the major problems is a fact , these youth training programmes or Y , YP 's as they call them , are alright but they 're not really getting down to the basic er training we need ! |
| 17 | A contract may be a contract , but Branson was now coming round to the belated realisation that a suitable gesture to Oldfield much earlier on in his career — increasing his royalty rate after Tubular Bells , for example — could have prevented all this ugliness . |
| 18 | He says Berliners are now counting down to the historic moment . |
| 19 | Apparently people are even going back to the fifties contraceptives ! |
| 20 | " Even going out to the open air services . |
| 21 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 22 | This will prevent water continuously diffusing through to the decorative face , causing unpleasant discoloration . |
| 23 | Whether time permits or not , a detour should be made along the A.881 from Broadford to its terminus at Elgol , there going down to the colourful beach of pebbles and wild flowers and low cliffs : a beautiful foreground to a classic view , the finest in Britain , of the Black Cuillin across the wide waters of Loch Scavaig , a picture that would defeat a Constable or a Turner . |
| 24 | Originally it was planned to bring the tax in in two stages starting with an eight per cent rise and then moving up to the full seventeen and a half . |
| 25 | Delaney stepped into the wheelhouse , his eyes taking in the smashed console , then dropping down to the grisly , earthly remains of Grant . |
| 26 | Me , I find myself steadily drifting back to the unfashionable conviction that radical meanings are betrayed by conventional forms ; that if melodies , key changes , and vocal cadences follow expected paths they can only reinforce commonsense perceptions . |
| 27 | With the candles and red roses of Valentines 's Day cleared away , couples are again facing up to the grim realities of living together . |
| 28 | Currently harking back to the '70s are When Saturday Comes , Vic Reeves , Teenage Fanclub , Carter , Morrissey and me . |