Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * Reports from Thailand suggest that , following the government 's ban on logging , Thai businessmen are taking increasing numbers of trees from Burma , Laos and Cambodia , in some cases using this legal trade to pass off illegally-felled Thai trees as legitimate imports . |
| 2 | The idea is the brainchild of CEWTEC , the training and enterprise council for Chester , Ellesmere Port and Wirral which is now seeking 15 local firms to take up the cut-price offer . |
| 3 | Co. that Masai-loving administrators were allowing these useless people to tie up many thousands of acres of valuable agricultural land . |
| 4 | The woman is quite capable of using these varying qualities to draw out particular types of response ; she may do this instinctively , or consciously , and for a variety of reasons . |
| 5 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 6 | But nevertheless , a nice balance can be obtained by giving that split time to get in . |