Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Infact it is alot easier doing something like this than going into the ring because you see all their fresh faces and all they care about is having their quetions answered . |
| 2 | If you knew what the lecturer controlling your studies was to do in the way of arranging these in a particular order , you could make a skeleton in linear form , one heading following another and falling into a hierarchy of importance . |
| 3 | In particular I would like to know about your own background rather than having to guess at this while reading about a set of fictional characters . |
| 4 | ( Alternatively we can read this as beginning with a clause in which the given is ellipted : ‘ although he was energetic and successful ’ . ) |
| 5 | Armstrong and McGee see this as contributing to the growth of countries with more industrialised centres and the decline of the smaller republics , thus intensifying regional disparities ( Armstrong and McGee 1985 ) . |
| 6 | As the language used in this posting is much snappier than normal I think I 'll take this as arising from a Man Utd supporter — if there is such a thing . |
| 7 | Your eye makes a natural adjustment for this when looking at the scene direct so that the colour appears the same irrespective of the lighting . |
| 8 | I first heard of this when camping at the foot of Bredon Hill in Worcestershire in 1960 . |
| 9 | Geoffrey was also in charge of the effects record on the Panatrope ; he was better at that than moving about the stage . |
| 10 | This ability to create a coherent world , recognisable as such but differing from the reader 's experience , but above all involving no false note or anachronism , is an essential of all great novelists , but of itself it is not a recipe for success . |
| 11 | It is about personal experience of particular brands as much as looking for the numbers . |
| 12 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 13 | That I think perhaps is one of the striking differences between that and living in a house in Harlow , where you may or may not know your immediate neighbours . |
| 14 | Linda buried herself in the crowd , exchanging words with this one and that and heading for the bar . |
| 15 | Girls , money , fast cars — it was the choice between that and working in a factory for the rest of your life , and I went for the girls — ‘ I 'll have the girls and all the money , please . ’ |
| 16 | The social worker may see these as lying in the desirability of continued pregnancy or otherwise ; in care of the child after birth ; in marriage , if this is contemplated for a later date , too early in life — or if no marriage is contemplated , in her later support and that of her child ; possibly in the girl 's continued promiscuity ; perhaps , if the girl is in the social worker 's care already , in matters of professional reputation . |
| 17 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 18 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 19 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 20 | But , if there is a further " selecting " qualifier , such as only , and if the speaker sees the latter as focusing on the property of the adjective , then it is quite reasonable that he or she may also feel it necessary to mark this focal adjectival property as one to be explicitly assigned , rather than being an ordinary part of the identificatory bundle . |
| 21 | The leader was perhaps doing no more than drawing on the enthusiasm detectable in each of the two components of the party for the idea of citizenship . |
| 22 | It takes more than promenading on the streets to learn one of the world 's most difficult languages , James Meek finds |
| 23 | I had always been keen on hillwalking and loved nothing more than escaping to the peace of the hills with my three oldest and closest friends . |
| 24 | When the younger counsellor shares these experiences with the older counsellee they are both doing far more than embarking on a process of recalling the past , they are sharing a common heritage which has been formative for the young as well as the old , although less directly so . |
| 25 | And , with a horrified shudder , it occurred to Folly that if she stayed any longer in the corridor she might hear more than talking in the room beyond the door . |
| 26 | There is a great deal of potential here for criminalising conduct that amounts to little more than arguing with a policeman , which it should be one of the aims of public order law to prevent . |
| 27 | But Paying Your Way was not respectable , any more than Keeping To The Left . |
| 28 | Erm I think it it is beneficial mainly in the sense that erm if nothing more than running round the vehicle to make sure there are no marks and bangs and scratches on it which you 're going to inherit from the the previous run that it had er with a different driver perhaps . |
| 29 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
| 30 | The underlying idea here is that reason can be more than going through the techniques and operations that reason demands ; and more than paying attention to particular truth claims . |