Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was better than walking , better than fighting the tangle of woodland , but whether it was better than lying in the clearing , I could n't decide . |
| 2 | Flying was even better than she had hoped : better than skiing , better than driving a sports car . |
| 3 | But changes in attitude go a lot deeper than watching the pennies . |
| 4 | Perhaps if colouring the fish does not sell them , this cruelty will stop . |
| 5 | But , when you do check , make certain that you have maintained straight and level flight just previously , and that you continue to do so if re-setting the DI . |
| 6 | So if increasing the speed of a computer 's components is limited by the speed of light , how will one ever build increasingly faster computers ? |
| 7 | It is advisable to give reasons for the decision , especially if rejecting the DC , so that those concerned know why the proposed change has been blocked . |
| 8 | Colin Parry breaks down while making a speech during his son Timothy 's funeral yesterday . |
| 9 | In the first three years of the experiment not a single pedestrian was injured seriously enough while crossing the road to feel that it warranted reporting . |
| 10 | ‘ So while getting a document or computer disk from , say , London to Indonesia can take up to three days by post or courier , with electronic mail a valid print-out will be to hand in next to no time . |
| 11 | And it does so while providing a perfect fit . |
| 12 | At the meeting Eduard Shevardnadze , the Soviet Foreign Minister , proposed the " decoupling " of the internal and external aspects of unification so that the former could be completed swiftly while allowing a unified Germany 's security status to be resolved over a number of years . |
| 13 | There is , perhaps , especially strong confirmation that the verb and adjective properties are immediately bound together in the fact that there is no coherent way to question either the adjective or the verb alone while leaving the other in place ; we can not , for example , have : ( 24 ) what should I do to the string longer ? ( 25 ) how did his sister set the owl ? |
| 14 | Keep lips together while drawing the lipline and do n't make it too heavy . |
| 15 | The falconer had authority and poise , she remained in control of the whole operation , and her attention was with the bird at each second of its flight — all while delivering a running commentary ! |
| 16 | There were no serious incidents in the 1947 winter , such as people losing their way and dying of cold , although a Mr Sowerby on the other side of the dale died suddenly whilst helping a neighbour . |
| 17 | So whilst supporting the theory that Smiths should not carry offensive ‘ literature ’ , I felt it was very important that the women 's movement should be proposing — and buying in large quantities — some ( or many ) alternatives to fill those top shelves . |
| 18 | He walked off through the press of people now all but blocking the way to the door . |
| 19 | What 's evil includes governments starting unjustified wars for the sake of oil and then all but ignoring a war that demands their intervention . |
| 20 | They slipped through the museum like ghosts dodging the approach of dawn , all but ignoring the Arawak and Spanish exhibits . |
| 21 | There are many areas of everyday life where we may need to write for information , eg when booking a holiday . |
| 22 | And that is — perhaps when receiving the undergraduate degree — that the student has reached the point when he or she intellectually can take off on his or her own , if so desired . |
| 23 | But they would soon tell that they would have their before they would go to bed and thanks er very much when getting the bed and you could er vouch for that they would never . |
| 24 | It is , for the reasons I have given , not sufficient in this case to point to the medical cause of death alone when considering the question ‘ how . ’ |
| 25 | I suppose that I really put two and two together when reading a ( non aquatic ) book on the rain forest , which mentioned that the Rio Negro in Brazil was dark , due to a weak tea effect as the water percolated first through the vegetation and then through the sandy subsoil ( as opposed to clay subsoils elsewhere in the Amazon basin ) . |
| 26 | Such information needs to be considered together when selecting the most likely word from all candidates , which implies that the information must be combined in some way . |
| 27 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 28 | Creating a game from a film costs hundreds of thousands of pounds and can take as long as making the movie . |
| 29 | Within the permitted development rules for home extensions , this means no permission is needed , so long as adding the garage does n't result in the volume of the house being increased by more than the permitted development allowance . |
| 30 | ‘ Concentration ’ , the word used in the EC Merger Regulation is used only when discussing the application of that Regulation . |