Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rise in numbers would by itself help to explain why the upper classes were looking for new and wider choice of occupation ; it does not go far towards explaining the popularity of Cîteaux . |
| 2 | The new ruck-maul law , rather than resulting in quicker and cleaner ball , could end up with the sort of pile-up seen here when New South Wales took on Fiji in the recent Super Six Series as defending players desperately try to stop the ball coming out of the rucks or mauls . |
| 3 | Health visitors are rarely employed as such outside the NHS , although the qualification itself can provide an entry gate to other positions , particularly in advisory capacities to child health and other voluntary organisations , in health education and teaching at tertiary and higher education levels . |
| 4 | The sequence is probably preserved in a fault-bounded trough in an area long thought to comprise only Triassic strata resting on Cambrian or earlier basement . |
| 5 | It screwed me up thinking how the invalid 's hopes must have soared at the sound of my entry , and how she must now be falling into deeper and deeper misery because of the silence and the nothing happening . |