Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the North Isle of the Parish church of Newport painell in Buckinghamshire , in the yeare 1619 was found the body of a man whole and perfect ; laid downe , or rather leaning downe , North , and South : all the concauous parts of his body , and the hollownesse of euery bone , as well ribs as other , were filled vp with sollid lead . |
| 2 | Indeed production for the market , as a purpose taking priority over any other , is widely evident in each phase , though there are many examples of producers struggling against or effectively ignoring market trends . |
| 3 | Pupils will also enjoy performing simple period music ( playing medieval music on recorders and percussion instruments , for instance , or perhaps performing negro spirituals in a lesson about slavery ) . |
| 4 | The ropes took the first opportunity of falling into the waterfall and freezing solid , bending at unpredictable angles , more or less imitating wire hawser . |
| 5 | Within an hour hundreds of spadefoot males were bobbing like so many light balloons on the pool 's surface , each every second or less giving voice to a single loud ‘ Wah ! ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Bodily Injury ’ does not include sickness , disease or naturally occurring condition or degenerative process but does include death or disablement as a direct result of exposure to the elements . |
| 7 | Much of the ceramic material in eastern England , less so in the south , is stamped , that is decorated by pressing a carved die or naturally occurring object into the surface . |
| 8 | Choose the Poly Style Deep Care Perm to suit your requirements — Long Lasting Bouncy Curls or Long Lasting Body and Wave . |
| 9 | A great writer can have , at a particular time , a pernicious or merely deadening influence ; and this influence can be most effectively attacked by pointing out those faults which ought not to be copied , and those virtues any emulation of which is anachronistic . |
| 10 | He is not talking about any one of these great writers ( his devotion to Browning was well advertised ) but about , in Eliot 's words , the ‘ pernicious or merely deadening influence ’ that ‘ a great writer can have , at a particular time ’ . |
| 11 | Is your money actually growing or merely marking time ? |
| 12 | Again , in contrast to the fascination of some artists with scouring , scraping or generally savaging paint and canvas , Roxy Walsh treats her materials sensitively : caressing and nurturing until they blossom . |
| 13 | During that time , some spend long periods doing nothing or just watching television . |
| 14 | Or just taking part by coming . |
| 15 | damage caused by wear and tear , depreciation , rot , fungus , insects , vermin , atmospheric or climatic conditions or gradually operating cause ; |
| 16 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 17 | Lightweight Ethyl Vinyl Acetate ( EVA ) or harder wearing compression moulded EVA are still the favoured midsole materials . |
| 18 | If this option is chosen , or automatically following Option 0 , the user is required first to provide a dark background — preferably of the same material as will be used as a background to the subject and then a light background ( not necessarily white ) . |
| 19 | The law speaks of causing or knowingly permitting pollution , and the concept of cause has been strictly construed . |
| 20 | Australia The states of Victoria and Western Australia and the Capital Territory have passed laws eliminating or severely restricting tobacco advertising since 1987 . |
| 21 | It needs to be done subtly , for flashing a TA card or immediately mentioning membership of the police reserve , for example , incenses some regular police . |
| 22 | US officials said this did amount to a description of a rouble gold standard , but emphasised that Mr Baker was not prescribing or even recommending policy to Moscow . |
| 23 | Be careful , too , about leaving appliances on when you 're about to go out , or even using Economy 7 overnight . |
| 24 | Let me repeat yet again the words of Ernest Renan in his famous lecture ‘ What is a Nation ’ in 1882 : ‘ Forgetting history , or even getting history wrong ( l'erreur historique ) are an essential factor in the formation of a nation , which is why the progress of historical studies is often dangerous to a nationality . ’ |
| 25 | The dominant sectors of society found no difficulty in tolerating or even nodding approval of its message , a development which reached its apogee when the 1988 Conference of the British Conservative Party bellowed out the song with no hint of embarrassment . |
| 26 | A more serious level is exchanging facts , ideas and opinions , intellectual concepts or even discussing doctrine . |
| 27 | When the target atom in an XPS experiment is in a gas-phase molecule , the ejected photoelectron can escape freely , though even here it may lose some energy as it departs , exciting or even ionizing valence electrons in the process . |
| 28 | For the purposes of this discussion it is best to avoid the term working class literature , in favour of terms which are less polemically charged , such as labouring poets , or even labouring class poets . |
| 29 | Say they were asleep , or even making love ? |
| 30 | For example , there 's a piece of cake in front of us and , and you know you just want it so badly and you just eat it , or even having sex , anything , I mean any desire that you have that you just follow . |