Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a question of not being discouraged and persevering until suddenly a drawing looks like you hope , of seeing the possibility in something , in a line , and thinking ‘ Oh quick , I must n't change that . |
| 2 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 3 | A full analysis of the situation will be postponed to the end of this chapter , but it seems worth noting that recently the Tyne shipped its largest ever cargo — an export load of scrap . |
| 4 | Ormanroyd he 's still going and still the shot blocked Agnew has his shot blocked as well . |
| 5 | Then the tight cysts , not unlike Maggie 's soap egg , glued onto the reed stalks , and swelling , swelling , splitting until finally the pictures captured the moment when the dragonfly broke from the chrysalis , crawled desperately up the reed stem and unfolded its glorious wings in the sunshine , spreading them out to harden , to firm up , to set , to grow strong . |
| 6 | It represented an open-ended public expenditure commitment with no way of imposing cash limits on the amount spent on prescribing and seemingly no way to check the number of people GPs referred to hospital . |
| 7 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |
| 8 | DID MY ears deceive me or was yesterday 's BBC TV news saying that even the Queen has ‘ flu ? |
| 9 | The closest they got to an opinion on the two campaigns was when Andrew said that Labour 's campaign organisers had been ‘ more laid back ’ than the Tories , but his brother immediately disagreed , saying that perhaps the Conservatives had shown more flexibility in their poster plans . |
| 10 | The data revealed that human impact was greatest with initial use ; further increases in use levels exhibited a non-linear relationship , illustrating that once a campsite had been established , higher-use levels could be sustained without incurring disproportionate damage . |
| 11 | The apex of the arches was only some five feet six inches above floor level , indicating that either the floor had risen during repairs or men had become taller over the centuries . |
| 12 | But all the while he was learning and soon the time had come when he was no longer satisfied to design for others . |
| 13 | Requests by bureaux for the supply of CPAG 's Supplementary Benefit and Family Income Supplement by John Mesher had been increasing and so the IPG decided to use this opportunity to survey which reference books the bureaux used in practice as social security reference books . |
| 14 | Assessment is not just carried out when a patient is admitted to the ward but is a continuous process because the condition of the patient is altering and therefore the care required may change rapidly . |
| 15 | It 's all very complicated and there 's a lot of stuff about original ‘ round ’ core as opposed to the more modern ‘ hex ’ core , and something about wrap wire being able to move around a round core , and the wrap stretching on tuning and just the core moving through the nut , and the smaller space available for gunk to gather , and a heck of a lot more besides . |