Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC 's Children 's Department , Newman felt , was still catering for only a small proportion of the nation 's youngsters : the ordered few for whom parents bought Look & Learn , The Eagle or maybe even Hotspur . |
| 2 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 3 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 4 | But since she 'd considered herself relatively fit , she was disconcerted when her muscles began aching after just a short time . |
| 5 | It is not known whether the original breeding arose from mutation or selection , or , some say , by crossbreeding with perhaps a French breed or the Devon . |
| 6 | The balls are normally spheroid and enclosed in a cage consisting of either a cross-shaped piece of sheet metal , often silver , or two metal bands . |
| 7 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 8 | I think there 's less risk of you being caught then — Lee 's and your mother 's people are looking for either a single man and woman or two unrelated young people ; it seems as if they think it 's inconceivable that you should have remained together . |
| 9 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 10 | As a consequence of casual labour the actual take-home pay , irrespective of the rate of payment , could be pitifully small , ranging from just a few coppers in a month to the best wages of all the men on the machines and , top of the league , the head dresser . |
| 11 | One example is the late Triassic brachiopod Halorella , which is large and distinctive and which has been recorded from every continent except Antarctica , in rocks dating from quite a small span of late Triassic time ( figure 2.1 ) . |
| 12 | Or are we looking at possibly a larger figure now for Greater York ? |
| 13 | In a month , she thought , in just a month , I might be looking at quite a different view . |
| 14 | Ford is budgeting for only a slight improvement on last year 's 1.6m market and has abandoned hopes of sales reaching 1.74m , while Peugeot Talbot is projecting a standstill . |
| 15 | … that after paying at least a dozen visits to Cambridge and engaging in the most unpleasant negotiations I have ever had in my life , we have managed to retain recognition as a body which is normally recognised for Chapter III powers and obtained an agreement which the University people hate like poison . |
| 16 | A MAN who usually stuck to soft drinks died after downing at least a dozen whiskies , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 17 | The specimen should be supported so that the etched face is almost horizontal , tilting by only a few degrees . |
| 18 | The toy that I remember lasting for quite a long time was a beautifully made wooden engine with its tender and two trucks . |
| 19 | If this does not happen , current from the switch could be passed to ‘ earth ’ for part of the cycle , resulting in possibly a damaging loading on the switching device and overheating with loss of efficiency . |
| 20 | The string retainer has been screwed down a little too low , resulting in quite a severe break angle over the nut , but if I 'm talking about that as a problem , then you can see there 's really not much wrong with the rest of the LX . |
| 21 | Every evening the make-up would be wiped off with a towel resulting in quite a large laundry bill for each Girl . |
| 22 | The American delegation had submitted ‘ a long list of trading firms , educational institutions , research institutions , local and provincial organizations , each amounting to only a few people , and even street neighbour groups , and is insisting on consultations with them ’ . |
| 23 | When the system appears to be malfunctional , usually at times of economic difficulty for the country , some commentators identify such inherent problems as providing at least a partial explanation for the system 's poor showing . |
| 24 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 25 | How they are set is a difficult question to which I shall return , but those who decry as too narrow the scope of a Convention running to over a hundred Articles must surely embody the resuscitated spirit of Oliver Twist who will always cry for more ! |
| 26 | The French learned that lesson in Paris where footing it in a queue suffering at least a little bit for art is required before access to the Winged Victory of Samothrace or ‘ The artist 's studio ’ by Gustave Courbet . |
| 27 | But for the moment it seems that Chevenement is fighting to keep up appearances of big budget increases while losing at least a little ground to other ministries in that fight for limited funds . |
| 28 | The excursion party of thirty travelled 10,500 miles in nine weeks with John Mason overseeing all the arrangements , dealing with over a hundred railway and steamboat officials and lamenting the ‘ lightening ’ steamboats and trains which travelled at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 29 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 30 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |