Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you take easy exercise — walking or gently cycling a few miles , running up the stairs , carrying a heavy suitcase a distance — without becoming puffed or stiff ? |
| 2 | Environmental Services are keeping and still recruiting the best people and the result is still reflected by our peers and the country 's opinion formers . |
| 3 | They were talking and laughing and generally having a good time . |
| 4 | Last night , the brave policewoman 's parents and boyfriend sat at her bedside in the Royal Liverpool Hospital hoping , praying but privately fearing the worst . |
| 5 | Equalling and occasionally surpassing the excellent journalism we sometimes enjoy in our quality press , this collection loses out in its lack of immediacy . |
| 6 | The Directing Staff are out and about , unobtrusively encouraging , cajoling and even hissing the occasional order until the column moves off . |
| 7 | A temporary period of peace during an otherwise acrimonious debate on a motion of confidence in the government permitted all party leaders to join backbenchers in praising and warmly applauding the two men who dominated Ireland 's political scene throughout the 1980s . |
| 8 | The second generation of machines will be much more complex than the first , for it will include machines capable of repairing and even reproducing the first generation ! |
| 9 | Resource distribution during early years of the NHS was based on previous funding with additions for specific developments , thus perpetuating and even exacerbating the inherited geographical inequalities . |
| 10 | On the other hand , all three decisions confirm that an employee would be rashly optimistic if he expects to gain compensation from the mere fact the employer is selling or otherwise exploiting the patented invention with a significant measure of success . |
| 11 | Police committees , therefore , are precluded from either directing or even questioning the chief constable on operational matters ( Loveday 1983 ) . |
| 12 | However , Pinchbeck is confident of extending the plateau by attacking opportunities in the main field through infill drilling and also developing a promising discovery to the north-west of the field . |
| 13 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 14 | It would maximise civilian tactics of resistance and defuse the natural potential for violence , containing and eventually eliminating the marginal but intrusive phenomenon of collaborator activation by Israeli security authorities and collaborator execution by local Palestinians . |
| 15 | If there is anyone out there who is using or can advise on joining two touring canoes to make a low tech catamaran in the Wharram tradition , enabling sailing to estuaries and creeks , dismantling and then exploring the local rivers ? |
| 16 | I told him who I was and where I was staying and then forgot the whole incident . |
| 17 | Introducing the broad outlines of an economic programme marking a new direction for Brazil , Haddad said on Dec. 31 that the fight against inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of about 1,500 per cent , took second place to plans to improve living standards by doubling and possibly quadrupling the minimum wage and creating 4,000,000 new jobs over the next two years through selective economic development . |
| 18 | If she partly infers a higher average price level than she was originally expecting and partly infers a relative demand increase then the generally expected price level will be somewhere between P and P 2 , and hence there will be some increase in aggregate output above its natural level . |
| 19 | This was done without consulting or indeed informing the National Administrative Council . |
| 20 | see instead of doing the one I 'm doing and just taking a little bit of money , I could go and start up another one |
| 21 | Come dusk the place starts to come alive and the narrow streets behind the harbour , with it 's vast array of magnificent wood-built sailing cruisers , turn into a huge open air jamboree with everybody jostling , shopping , eating , drinking and generally having a good time . |
| 22 | You hitchhiking in my rucksack all the way up here without me knowing and then doing a perfect impression of a police loud hailer . ’ |
| 23 | Essentially this is based around choosing and then communicating the geometric properties necessary for the successful functioning of the item , together with material properties and the procedures to be employed during its generation . |
| 24 | Some dealers and collectors were not above altering or even removing the genuine patina and treating the surface to give the appearance they felt it should have had . |
| 25 | Parties were regarded as governing coalitions that " aggregated " interests and policies before putting up candidates at elections with a view to winning and actually undertaking the direct government of the country . |
| 26 | That has led me to conclude that higher and further education no longer provide a pathway out of poverty towards educational achievement and self-fulfilment , because students from poor backgrounds may be forced to give up studying and never achieve the educational qualifications that they seek . |
| 27 | 3 Now estimate the length and height of one of the walls of the room in which you are sitting and then use a measuring tape to check its actual values . |
| 28 | Far from spending long hours on the tiles hunting , scavenging and generally having a high old time with their pals , as tradition and practice dictate , they should be indoors tucked up . |
| 29 | Here in the social services , which , in volume of resources involved , represent between one-third and one-half of the activities of the state , the question , it seems to me , can not be posed by disconnected , spasmodic pluses and minuses but by presenting a broad and large conception of the manner in which resources ought to be redeployed to meet modern realities , and this will not be done without soberly assessing but boldly facing the in-built obstacles to that redeployment . |
| 30 | First he has enriched our geometric imagination by recognising and systematically exploring a wide range of fractal shapes to augment the familiar ( Euclidean ) circle , triangle , sphere , cube , etc . |