Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | support for the production of teaching materials is not coordinated and rarely involves monitoring the successes and failures arising through the trial of materials in classrooms |
| 2 | Then a series of colours that took my fancy were thinned down with water and sprayed , or rather spattered using a mouth diffuser , over the colours I have previously applied . |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't try that yet , ’ said Fenella , who was rather enjoying riding the horse , but was not sure how she might get on with whatever was a gallop . |
| 4 | They had long since stopped expecting the world to deal kindly with them : they had used up their good fortune by remaining alive when the Plague came . |
| 5 | He had long since stopped noticing the foul smell inside the little concrete box , or the damp grittiness of the floor against his cheek , and he heard only distantly the rolling crash of thunder . |
| 6 | Inevitably , many organisations have been created which effectively avoided confronting the government . |
| 7 | Here , an allergy to chloroform was successfully treated using a homoeopathic preparation of chloroform . |
| 8 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 9 | After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack . |
| 10 | I do rather enjoy having the flat to myself , despite a constant battle with my clutter ! |
| 11 | LC were enriched from BALB/c TE-EC ( ref. 22 ) , stained with M5/114.15.12 ( anti-I-A d and anti-I-E d , ATCC ) and FITC-goat ( Fab' ) 2 anti-rat IgG ( TAGO ) and additionally purified using a BDIS Facstar Plus flow cytometer . |
| 12 | The two leftish books to which he referred were duly reviewed , and I admit to have rather enjoyed undertaking the ‘ thorough cutting up ’ which he declared the Levy book to deserve ( it did ) . |
| 13 | Thus " information handling " does not merely cover using the microcomputer to find references to aspects of pollution such as ACID RAIN but to the whole process of learning done in the classroom and the school library . |
| 14 | Unless it grows fast enough to sustain recropping the birds must move elsewhere . |
| 15 | The second reason for the Labour movement 's hostility was that the trade unions had still to be convinced that their strength had increased sufficiently to risk reconsidering the position as declared at their annual conference in 1930 . |
| 16 | Any examination of nineteenth-century popular culture then necessarily involves confronting the basic cultural and political values that have determined British and American society in the modern era . |
| 17 | Building a home is a more demanding business altogether since it necessarily involves assembling the right materials , deciding on a layout and somehow fastening things together . |
| 18 | I did n't personally think having a piano on the back of a truck was much use either , but it looked good and gave the band somewhere to balance their beer cans . |
| 19 | Anti-clerical Catalans have long favoured leaving the Sagrada Familia as it is and landscaping the site . |
| 20 | More often that not it merely involves holding an arm still . |
| 21 | Victor , fatter and balder and more like a bilious little hippo than ever , was obviously enjoying playing the O'Briens off against the Mendozas . |
| 22 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 23 | Now obviously nobody would be daft enough to try running a car without oil , although some of the garages doing their P D I 's , pre-delivery inspections , can cause that sort of problem . |
| 24 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 25 | Be understanding if he or she suddenly starts wetting the bed or crying for attention following a bad dream in the night . |
| 26 | The pupils can manipulate the data or screen image , experimenting and taking risks which can be swiftly deleted leaving a professional image on screen unspoiled by scratchings and rubbings out . |
| 27 | The project was controversial and the power station was only permitted providing the smoke was clean and the building did not challenge the visual dominance of St Paul 's . |
| 28 | Amplified vibration can reinforce the normal rhythm of speech and can greatly assist forming the right habits . |
| 29 | So stop slapping the boy around . ’ |
| 30 | Neither does the inquirer need to come with a programme almost ready made wanting the centre only to book the air tickets . |