Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will banish any anxieties that you may have about being alone at night or coming home to an empty house . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , for one glorious day , millions were able to ‘ take action ’ and assuage a whole year 's guilt in one go , by writing a cheque , phoning in a credit card number , or trotting along to the local collection point with cash . |
| 3 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 4 | The Farrers were generous benefactors , providing the inhabitants with electricity from a private turbine at the waterfall and contributing generously to the common good , but most notably in the lovely environs they created by planting natural woodlands , and constructing a lake and other amenities on their extensive estate nearby . |
| 5 | and looking forward to a new year . |
| 6 | Having negotiated the pitch with difficulty in the wet , I was at first relieved at having passed beneath the boulder and looking forward to an easy scramble to the top when I came across another difficult pitch . |
| 7 | SIX years ago , in the introduction to a collection of his plays , Howard Brenton was still trumpeting his adherence to Marxism and looking forward to an unstoppable ‘ British Revolution ’ . |
| 8 | The restaurant has a loggia alongside for summer dining , and there is an attractive swimming pool around which guests can spend a relaxed and leisurely day , soaking up the sunshine and looking out to the rolling countryside all around . |
| 9 | Other scullions were running in with ladders and lengths of rope , climbing up on to the big stove and scrambling up to the messy lip of the vat in which , judging by the amount of splashing and screaming , the small attendant still survived . |
| 10 | He looked at her , and she saw him come erect , the magical mechanism of the male penis , lifting and filling out to a great rod the colour of a dull sunset . |
| 11 | All of the administrative systems developed on behalf of the modular course have been designed and tested in-house , beginning with a simple program for pre-enrolment information and student progress on a microcomputer in 1972 and leading up to the large and sophisticated management system described in Chapter 7 . |
| 12 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
| 13 | Pravda had commented late in 1931 : In England , as elsewhere , the task of the " Lefts " consists in hindering the workers who are becoming revolutionised from abandoning the Labour Party and going over to the revolutionary fight , to Communism . |
| 14 | Canada dominated the scoring , leading 22–6 at the interval and by 19 points in as many minutes with outside-half Gareth Rees , back after a winter in France , scoring the first nine and going on to a 20-point afternoon . |
| 15 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 16 | The theme of lateness is developed here , of an existence which was once vibrant , as in summer , now mellow and dwindling away to the barren emptiness of winter . |
| 17 | One of these was ‘ war communism ’ , a centralised model based upon commands and coercion and harking back to the militarised society of the civil war years . |
| 18 | The lyrics deal with teenage frustrations and breaking through to the other side . |
| 19 | Dame Joan gave a compelling performance , handling the coloratura apparently without effort , and rising superbly to the final altissimo E flat — a stratospheric note which she then repeated in the encore . |
| 20 | Devolution , either from county or district , would mean more local information and reporting back to the relevant authorities by the parish clerk and her assistant . |
| 21 | Is this a conclusion which Nozick must simply accept , abandoning his claim to total success and pointing merely to the admitted partial success ? |
| 22 | This unthreatening introduction into discussing a marital difficulty and an explanation that a combination of therapy approaches , that is managing the child and facing up to the marital disagreements , is likely to be most effective and help the parents understand the link . |
| 23 | And facing up to the Italian job , Aberdeen reflect on what might have been . |
| 24 | However , the Mole was still held by Germans , and moving back to the Old Entrance Bob Ryder saw that somebody — a party from an ML ? |
| 25 | Trains will have a power car at both ends , each capable of starting the train on a maximum gradient of 1 in 40 and accelerating rapidly to a maximum operating speed of 300kph . |
| 26 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
| 27 | Although the landscapes on both sides of the Border are very similar , from the lowlands north and east of Carlisle through fells rising to the Cheviot range and falling again to the coastal plain , it is still noticeable that permanent settlements of any size are fewer along the Scottish side . |
| 28 | Thirdly , ritualism , abandoning the goals but sticking rigidly to the legitimate means of achieving them . |
| 29 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 30 | That is not standards or objectivity , but giving in to the usual pressures from the National Union of Teachers and NALGO , to which Labour Members always give in . |