Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balanced against this view one might consider the limited liability offered through trading as a company so advantageous in the event of the business failing that a company is the preferred form of trading . |
| 2 | He insisted the scheme was not in tatters and the main effect of the banks ' decision would be to make applying for a loan less convenient for students . |
| 3 | The nature of the two eyes of the Fate of the discworld was this : that while at a mere glance they were simply dark , a closer look would reveal — too late ! — that they were but holes opening onto a blackness so remote , so deep that the watcher would feel himself inexorably drawn into the twin pools on infinite night and their terrible , wheeling stars … |
| 4 | He finished painting in a silence so icy she could almost feel its frosty fingers on her skin , then climbed down the ladder and handed her the paintbrush . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've got some splendid beasts here , ’ Theodora said , reverting to a topic more likely to command his attention . |
| 6 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 7 | Moreover , this is occurring at a time when few resources are available to enable them to deal with increased numbers . |
| 8 | You will be working a single cable pattern up the centre of the test piece , consisting of a cable over six stitches , crossing three stitches over three stitches . |
| 9 | Sue Hill was 35 when she started looking for a job nearly two years ago . |
| 10 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 11 | Most certainly , though , we should appreciate how fortunate we are in having medical services , caring people around us , and living in a country where natural disasters are rare compared with many places on this earth . |
| 12 | They were completely serious moral beings living in a world where such terms usually had no content . |
| 13 | As far as I am concerned the whole point of Punch is to attack those in authority when they are seen to be acting in a way not worthy of respect . |
| 14 | Forgetting for a moment the totally illogical premise that Welsh teams get dirtier as they get better , I fail to see what useful purpose was served by raking up old controversies dating from a time when most of the current Welsh team were in primary school . |
| 15 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 16 | Management at Hunslet is acutely aware of the risks of operating in a sector acutely vulnerable to too much or too little government interference . |
| 17 | This might be explained by sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies causing uplift without penetrative magmatism developing to a point where volcanic activity occurs at the surface . |
| 18 | Huxley was , after all , writing at a time when medical horizons were limited to digoxin for heart failure , morphine for pain and a handful of other remedies . |
| 19 | Even through her own embarrassment she was cynically aware with one part of her mind that Bert Harris 's interests would certainly not be served by going against a man as powerful as Luke . |
| 20 | The king seemed to himself to turn suddenly , and gaze back into his own mind , and it was like peering into a cavern where dangerous creatures lurked , such as he had never suspected could habit within him . |
| 21 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 22 | Again , testing with a stimulus somewhat different from that used for pre-exposure produces generalization decrement both in habituation and in latent inhibition ( e.g. Carlton and Vogel 1967 ; Siegel 1969 ; Dawley 1979 ) . |
| 23 | As one young woman I spoke to put it : ‘ I thought at least I 'll be going to a place where these people are not my parents so they wo n't be able to put a hand on me . ’ |
| 24 | Yet if it is not alarmed by this procedure , you may well be able to relieve the obstruction and so prevent the dog from choking at a time when rapid action is required . |
| 25 | However , there is no record of any more funds , nor any reported expansion in the 500-strong workforce which is struggling with a spillage about 14 times as large as that in Alaska . |
| 26 | The Baltoro comes in a variety of single colours , aiming for a market more interested in function than fashion . |
| 27 | But there 's also some danger in drifting into a situation where all of that , and the power to get exactly what he wants , is in the hands of one person struggling with a new job , isolated among unfamiliar collaborators . |
| 28 | Madeleine replied with the news that she had been promoted and was moving to a town not twenty miles away . |
| 29 | Not only are they moving away , but often they are also moving to a place totally unsuitable for elderly people . |
| 30 | It 's heartening for actors like these from the award-winning Gate Theatre company to see a theatre expanding at a time when many they play in are threatened with closure . |