Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took a deep breath and prayed that Ranulf was somewhere where watching this small drama being played out . |
| 2 | While the Abalkin plan had tight deadlines for closing down or leasing unprofitable state enterprises , ( industry by the beginning of 1991 , state and collective farms by 1992 ) , Mr Ryzhkov gave no cut-off date . |
| 3 | Men are more likely than women to be ‘ economically active ’ , that is , in effect , to be in or seeking paid employment outside the home ( see Figure 2.8 ) , but this difference is decreasing with time ( see Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 4 | Organising , participating in or inciting another to participate in a banned procession . |
| 5 | Prominent among these factors are increased social and geographical mobility consequent upon greatly increased educational opportunity and a rapidly changing economy ; the marked trends over recent decades towards smaller families , higher marriage rates and earlier marriage ; and the growing numbers of women continuing in or re-entering full-time work . |
| 6 | It could be offensive to some , it has been suggested , to be thought of as living in or visiting such a place . |
| 7 | ‘ Better than singing boastful tunes like ‘ Rule Britannia ’ as though you Brits were n't beaten hollow by us poor rebels , ’ was her riposte to that . |
| 8 | We can do better than taking simple means of three , however . |
| 9 | Well , better than getting half every time , in n it ? |
| 10 | In our clinic we have constructed a centile graph for percentage ideal or desirable bodyweight based on medium frame size , so that knowing actual weight and height we can derive the percentage ideal bodyweight at a glance without calculation ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 11 | In the circuit diagram , the inductor to be determined is represented as an inductance L in series with resistance R. When the bridge is balanced , equation ( 7.8 ) applies so that Equating real and imaginary parts reveals that the double balance conditions are and Since R 1 and R 4 appear in both equations , independent achievement of the two balance conditions is only possible through variation of just R 2 and C 2 . |
| 12 | Now at balance and , so that Equating real and imaginary parts , the double balance conditions are seen to be and |
| 13 | Stubbs cites many other examples of how written language may involve structural ambiguity so that making grammatical sense of it depends on context and the knowledge the reader brings to the text ( e.g. ibid. p. 59 ) . |
| 14 | What about the ‘ Sensitive Mimosa ’ which has its own version of the flexion reflex so that flicking one leaf collapses all the leaves on that branch ? |
| 15 | A development of this has an inverted cone as a centre section , the water flowing down with heavy solids dropping to the bottom and then upwards at a controlled speed , so that falling lighter solids are balanced in the flow to form a " sludge blanket " , which acts as a buoyant filter catching very fine particles . |
| 16 | The report explains ‘ It would cost five to ten times less than building conventional power stations to meet demand , and it would have a significantly lower environmental impact ’ . |
| 17 | The wet and windy conditions prevailing were not conducive to good hockey , with the visitors adapting better and taking both points in a creditable 2–1 win . |
| 18 | It often involves looking at problems afresh and giving serious consideration to ideas which have traditionally been regarded as impossible or is practicable . |
| 19 | I went back to it carefully , stroking it gently and making shushing noises with my mouth . |
| 20 | For fax has now arrived with a vengeance , doubling its United Kingdom sales annually and making possible a world in which a businessman in Croydon may instantly replicate his A4 thoughts complete with illegible signature — upon desks in Hull , Hoboken or Hong Kong . |
| 21 | Layers of organic muds of swamp origin will be interspersed with wedge-shaped horizons of marine sediments thinning landwards and representing marine advance , however this may have been caused , levees of coarser sediment will follow the courses of former distributaries , while fanshaped spreads of such material will mark the sites of levee breaches . |
| 22 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 23 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 24 | remember going in and seeing this film and , it just it did n't it was so to my mind , and you know thinking back now , my memory of it was of a sort of very dark and dreary |
| 25 | ‘ Because that team is almost all new , we were very wary of rushing in and making inappropriate changes , which is why we did nothing permanent with the marketing of the 1992 Festival which was Brian McMaster 's first . |
| 26 | Then , after about three months , I had got it all out of my system I suppose , and I actually turned down an invitation to a party in favour of staying in and washing some clothes ! |
| 27 | Related to perception were two strongly contrasting ways of taking in and becoming aware of what was happening . |
| 28 | that was a fruit shop she said it 's loaded out as a cheap shop she said and erm , she wo n't go in there because bloke 's stood in there , she said she do n't mind going in and paying fifty , because , well they do n't do that do they ? |
| 29 | It is through these means that the people , our people , all the people in this city many of them bound together and then able to go out and think about their civic lives if you like , their civic , the way th that this council works perhaps and take part much more in just go in and putting little crosses on pieces of paper maybe . |
| 30 | He came in and trampling this brake fluid all over the carpet . |