Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should mean that pesticides will last longer , because they could be used in other areas before resistance spreads , and researchers could switch back to using the original pesticide once resistance has been wiped out , she said . |
| 2 | There seemed to be little hope for the future , just a mundane job and low pay and fewer prospects for meeting the opposite sex once university days were over . |
| 3 | Although the Commonwealth immigration acts since 1962 had slowed the inward flow from Commonwealth countries to a trickle , the problems of assimilating the black population now resident were as acute as ever , especially during the period of rapidly rising unemployment . |
| 4 | Going a little bit further east , Rye used to be a very important port , and erm that was , what , in the sixteenth century certainly and possibly even later than that . |
| 5 | Because of the way that the Moon moves in its orbit around the Earth , its place of rising on the horizon varies a little , each night moving a tiny amount further north until its position of rising seems to come to a halt ( a standstill ) before moving back southwards again . |
| 6 | Much of this went to Hull for export , but trains for Lancashire had to go up the formidable Worsborough bank avoiding Barnsley , and joining the main line just south of Penistone . |
| 7 | Erm , but we 're having a big party tomorrow night , and we 're having a hundred people in , |