Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have found service under the Protectorate more congenial than that of the Commonwealth ; in 1653–4 he moved from the navy to the central executive , becoming assistant secretary and then clerk of Oliver Cromwell 's council and treasurer of the protector 's contingencies . |
| 2 | The transsexual is one who utterly and completely rejects his biological sex , seeing personal fulfilment and even survival as possible only through the assumption in as complete a way as possible of the sex to which he feels he really belongs . |
| 3 | Towns like Lydney on the west bank of the River Severn , are reporting increased congestion and now road engineers are conducting a new traffic survey in the county . |
| 4 | However , there is good precedent for using such methods to investigate the mechanisms underlying altered responsiveness and particularly loss of awareness of hypoglycaemia . |
| 5 | The problem is hinted at in the uneasy combination of the two descriptive terms , one signifying natural complexity and even contrariness , the other , mechanical order and simplicity . |
| 6 | The validity of the lower inherited capital stock argument ( which relies on bond purchases reducing current saving and hence investment ) is also called into question . |