Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sometimes think now , Oh gawd , I must have really looked like a schlepp when I used to turn up at Motown or somewhere taking a punk rocky attitude with me . |
| 2 | This has principally meant providing more access to consumer goods and services , such as education , while continuing to deny any section of the black population access to political decision-making , or fundamentally changing the economic order . |
| 3 | And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in . |
| 4 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 5 | To explain the nature of legal change Stone offers a model that suggests first , that clients revealed the gap between current values and the law ; second , that this was followed by the attempt of lawyers and judges to narrow the gap , often by inventing legal fictions or effectively changing the law by judicial re-interpretation ( the changing definition of legal cruelty provides one example of this ) ; and third , that all this culminated eventually in legal change when the ‘ level of duplicity and hypocrisy became intolerable to law lords and legislators alike ’ ( pp. 19–20 ) . |
| 6 | I ought in all fairness to acknowledge that no American fault comes up to the revolting habit … of dropping or wrongly inserting the letter h . |
| 7 | It is excellent for developing empathy ( putting themselves in the shoes of a person from the past ) , or perhaps exploring an event from different viewpoints ( to target interpretations of history ) . |
| 8 | You may be attracted by an advertisement in your local paper , or perhaps reading the nursing press has aroused your interest . |
| 9 | ‘ We were both trapped , you once said , ’ she reminded him helplessly , with some idea of comforting him , or perhaps easing the process of rationalisation and self-forgiveness he was inevitably going to have to endure . |
| 10 | sometimes a metalpoint would have a point at either end of the stylus , for sake of balance , or perhaps containing a different type of metalpoint . |
| 11 | More often the impact of dogmatically held relativism on other people is to cause them to waver , feel uncertain and drift into what they feel they can be sure about — mostly in Western society a materialist attitude to life , or perhaps pursuing a lifestance which thinks it has avoided value judgements . |
| 12 | They can literally walk in the footsteps of people in the past , walking a section of Roman road or an old packhorse track , or following the route of an abandoned railway , or perhaps storming a hill-fort or castle . |
| 13 | Voluntary to my mind suggests that the payer being aware of all relevant circumstances including the true state of the law or perhaps having a doubt but not caring which way that doubt is resolved consciously makes a decision to pay . |
| 14 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 15 | But many Scottish broadcasters argue that in deploying minimum resources there will be instances where the new directorate wo n't authorise Manchester to fill the gap and they are faced with the choice of hiring independents at what might prove a greater cost , thereby going over budget , or perhaps losing the programme . |
| 16 | My standard of tennis is at that level where merely returning a serve constitutes a match highlight . |
| 17 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 18 | The teacher , too , as a fonctionnaire or civil servant , also has authority , which as well as the requirement to deliver to pupils something more or less resembling the words in the programme , includes also the authority to interpret , modify , supplement and extend . |
| 19 | So that , no matter what they do , they are more or less giving the same performance each time . |
| 20 | Faldo 's putter was ice-cool in the 90 degree heat , with at least 10 birdie putts of 18ft or less missing the target . |
| 21 | Not that that prevented Cale from screaming at a potted plant sitting on his piano , or suddenly demolishing a table beside his stool with an axe in mid-performance . |
| 22 | Can you take easy exercise — walking or gently cycling a few miles , running up the stairs , carrying a heavy suitcase a distance — without becoming puffed or stiff ? |
| 23 | Others , mainly the girls , spent the next hour or so exercising the jaw muscles — until the great white chief shouted , ‘ OK ; time to get together ’ . |
| 24 | Journalists then get their hands on the beasts , spend an hour or so flying the aeroplane and give their readers and potential customers a definitive report on the aeroplane . |
| 25 | And now each time you breathe out think the word ‘ calm ’ in your mind … each time you think the word calm so the body will relax a little more , become slightly more heavy and sink down deeper and deeper into the chair … and just go on now in silence for a minute or so thinking the word ‘ calm ’ and relaxing the body in preparation for the exercises of relaxation … ’ |
| 26 | In the first edition of this book we described at length the reactions evoked by the Report , its strengths and weaknesses as we saw them , and the developments that occurred in the year or so following the publication of Circular 11/77 . |
| 27 | After a month or so maturing the tank , I introduced some stock . |
| 28 | A dancer coming forwards can convey a variety of meaning : giving a greeting ; asking a question , even if it is only an inquisitive movement of the head ; saying Yes , or agreeing with a nod or with a particular wave of the hand ; giving something with arms circling outwards , e.g. Natalia and the Tutor when they open their arms to each other ; or merely proffering a hand at the beginning of a dance , e.g. Paris offering his hand to Juliet . |
| 29 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 30 | It was never clear whether they were carrying out a routine sample spot check on the facilities or merely seeking a quick meal before a meeting . |