Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] on [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a shower ( other than the instantaneous type fitted to the rising main ) is connected to a tap or shower fitting fed from a single pipe leading from the cold water cistern , flushing the WC or turning on another cold water tap can starve the shower of cold water , making it uncomfortably hot . |
| 2 | And flexing on that double flameflicker tongue |
| 3 | For instance , a major operation , starting a new school and going on active military service are threatening events often known in advance of occurrence , but which only a small minority of people will find sufficiently distressing to make psychiatric disorder a likely consequence . |
| 4 | Every so often , wild disordered men , with matted hair and ‘ unseeing red eyes ’ , are glimpsed ‘ tramping along old paths , across gardens , between houses , and through what remained of woodland , like aborigines recognising only an ancestral landscape and insisting on some ancient right of way ’ . |
| 5 | His deficit-reduction plans would offset this , but the impact is mitigated by his taking a leaf from the Republican 's book and relying on increased economic growth for about half the deficit reduction below the baseline deficit forecast . |
| 6 | By copying their neighbours ' success and concentrating on one particular product , three areas have become noted for their specialities . |
| 7 | This balance is important , since , for example , some accounts whose critical focus is the rise of the individual , private , property-owning self , almost appear to conspire with that reification of the self which they seek to criticize in contemporary culture , by isolating and concentrating on this single factor . |