Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orthodox visualized themselves cutting through the wire or bringing off some unprecedented bluff at the main gate . |
| 2 | There were also , throughout the century , various international bodies ( which in the nineteenth century , as now , frequently meant bodies dominated by or confined to Britain and America ) concerned with promoting various radical reforms or building up new ventures like Sunday Schools . |
| 3 | This is the most satisfactory form of sublimation , of aim-inhibited love , where the energy is derived from sexuality , the instinct 's aim being deflected away from genital aims on to others such as doing good works , creating beautiful things or building up close friendships . |
| 4 | For ski touring or walking over tricky terrain it helps to have the load still as close to your back as possible but lower down . |
| 5 | Little Horace Charles was carried off by pneumonia at the tender age of eight months , but Ernest William , Henry James and Herbert George were healthy young children crawling or toddling around those rooms in Wilmington Square . |
| 6 | Beyond that , we are into the final , open stage of adult or continuing education , which may go on intermittently for many years , compensating for missed opportunities , updating and extending existing skills , or opening up new fields of interest and expertise altogether . |
| 7 | The migrations had been made possible by geological changes temporarily removing barriers such as the English Channel , or opening up new routes through the creation of land-bridges . |
| 8 | A firm looking to expand will not simply contemplate recruiting new partners or opening up new branch offices . |
| 9 | Alternating with the local programme are day trips away for anyone who 's keen , visiting Kosta or Maistraki for a swim and a taverna lunch , sailing to Spetse town to explore ashore , or anchoring off Blue bay or White church bay for a lazy picnic . |
| 10 | Even if your partner is also positive , it is still best to have safer sex to avoid getting reinfected with different HIV strains or picking up other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 11 | Customers taking bikes to the shop for repair or picking up new cycles found they could not park near the shop . |
| 12 | An undertaking might involve , for example , modifying the scope of the original agreement or selling off one or more overlapping businesses to a third party . |
| 13 | The height of the front wheels is obtained by pushing or pulling up two plastic adjuster plugs on the front of the machine , which adjust the height of the axle . |
| 14 | To leave the ever-present tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff , formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes . |
| 15 | This may imply adding new relations to the set , adding data elements ( attributes ) to one or more of the relations , or breaking up one relation into two or more relations . |
| 16 | By selling more bills or buying back fewer , it can force down their price and hence force up the rate of discount . |
| 17 | By September 1990 , five countries — Mexico , the Philippines , Morocco [ see p. 37393 ] , Costa Rica [ see p. 37450 ] and Venezuela [ see p. 37313 ] — had secured debt-reduction agreements under the terms of the Brady plan , with Chile and Uruguay [ see pp. 37490 ; 37607 respectively ] among countries retiring or buying back considerable portions of foreign debt on the secondary debt market . |
| 18 | Collective Investment Schemes — establishing , operating , or closing down collective investment schemes , which includes acting as a trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 19 | On Jan. 30 the USA announced that it was withdrawing in 1992 17,000 more troops than had been planned , and closing or cutting back 83 more bases . |
| 20 | Soft corals , especially tree corals ( Sinularias ) and pulse corals ( Xenias ) , respond to dividing or cutting off small portions and resiting those to form new colonies . |
| 21 | Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young . |
| 22 | Therefore , one way of shutting off all negative and worrying thoughts , or shutting out any information to which we do n't want to attend , is to create a mild sensation of pain for the brain to be occupied with . |
| 23 | It shall further be unlawful for any man to stare at or make googoo eyes at , or in any other manner look at or make remarks to or concerning , or cough or whistle at , or do any other act to attract the attention of any woman upon or travelling along any of the sidewalks , streets , Public ways of the city of Abilene with an intent or in a manner calculated to annoy such women . |
| 24 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 25 | Refusing to be tested or coming up positive usually results in immediate sacking . |
| 26 | It is easy to foresee a DG very quickly falling flat on his face or stirring up more problems than he started with . |
| 27 | Yet it 's easy to cut down on fat without changing your diet completely or giving up all your favourite foods . |
| 28 | Also confirm connection , or taking over new number . |
| 29 | Proposals for spending cuts totalling 9,000 million kronor ( US$1,660 million ) were put forward on Nov. 5 ; a reduction of value added tax ( VAT ) from 25 per cent to 18 per cent on a range of basic goods and services on Nov. 6 ; reductions in the tax on capital income from 30 per cent to 25 per cent and a similar reduction in the tax on share profits on Nov. 8 ; and the privatization of 35 major state-owned companies in stages from early 1992 onwards and the lifting of restrictions on foreign investors buying into or taking over Swedish companies on Nov. 11 . |
| 30 | The vocabulary we have painstakingly acquired is steadily being eroded or expanded or taking on new and important meanings . |