Example sentences of "[adv] and [v-ing] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 2 | So , whether we look purely to the way in which a corpus sustains itself internally , or to the production of new perspectives for the corpus , or to the intermingling of different corpuses , or finally to standing outside a corpus altogether and developing a critique of it , we can see that reason is exhibited within and given sense by a framework with its own tacit rules . |
| 3 | ( Based on the vapour pressure of water at 37°C and 20°C respectively and assuming a doubling of the rate of diffusion of water vapour per 10°C rise in temperature . ) |
| 4 | Regina was back home and expecting a baby by the end of the year . |
| 5 | If cricket 's not your thing how about American football … a new season is underway and making a name for themselves already are the Oxford Saints … they 're the first club in the country with its very own gridiron pitch . |
| 6 | And er there was the er the kids from his erm he w he was going to school when he died and er there was children from his class walking along cos they we they used to walk to the cemeteries then and carrying a wreath of er flowers , I remember it as if it was yesterday . |
| 7 | They had covered an area averaging a quarter of a mile across and extending a mile beyond the farm , along the cliffs , with no result . |
| 8 | Behind him followed Sir John , breathing heavily and muttering a litany of dark curses . |
| 9 | He sprawled back behind the steering wheel , eyes closed , breathing heavily and clutching a handkerchief to himself . |
| 10 | The Association 's Branches , numbering over 630 worldwide and comprising a membership of over 103,000 , provide a network of Honorary Welfare Officers . |