Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complete refurbishment has added airconditioning and modern , fresh furnishings . |
| 2 | Stifling her yawns and fighting to keep her eyes open during the Litany of the Saints , she wrestled with the problem , terrified that Tristram might be caught trespassing but unable to think of any way to warn him . |
| 3 | Despite being a non-attainment or ‘ dirty ’ areas , new sources of pollution could be built providing that first , the proposed plant installed pollution control technology which ensured the ‘ lowest achievable emission rate ’ ( LAER ) ; and second , that the proposed emissions were offset by reductions in emissions from existing sources in the area ( the ‘ emission offset ’ policy ) . |
| 4 | When describing the person in question , a reference to physical appearance is often made showing that physical appearance is very important . |
| 5 | In the mathematical corridor with its shown brickworking and angled spotlights , a young woman was waiting to go in . |
| 6 | Mr Boocock hopes the 10am service will be thought provoking and enjoyable for the congregation . |
| 7 | She has n't stopped complaining since that shopping centre went up , but , like , with people like that all you can do is listen and sympathize . |
| 8 | There is a kind of Leavisism creeping through the back door in this stubbornly middle-class liking for disengaged moralising and metaphysical writing . |
| 9 | Some of the women who use the Centre have consequently stopped coming and some mothers have removed their children from the night care facility for fear of a raid . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the mothers and other relatives of the rapists had received threatening and abusive letters , including one from the National Front , and one letter threatening to rape the daughter of the rapist 's mother . |
| 11 | Private Robert Jeffery , 17 — who joined up when he was just 16 — was found shivering and incoherent as 30,000 youngsters left Britain 's biggest all-night party . |
| 12 | She had been spared telephoning after all — she realized that she did not even know whom to ask for at the hotel in Bandol . |
| 13 | Traditionally , United Kingdom law has been generous and compilations of non-original matter have been protected providing that some judgment at least has been expended in its making ( see Macmillan & Co . |
| 14 | The old I twelve which you have proposed altering and this is for Professor Lock 's benefit , actually had specific er floor-space figures set against York , Scarborough and Harrogate did it not ? |
| 15 | ‘ Those 12 months , ’ explains Gatfield , ‘ are spent preparing and fine tuning everything . |
| 16 | The pack-flat furniture had been invented recognising that younger people had become more mobile and often did not have the time to wait around at home for furniture deliveries . |
| 17 | b ) Immediately after aerobatics , particularly prolonged spinning or rolling manoeuvres . |
| 18 | Some suggest the quantities of dead fish dumped overboard exceed the quantities retained , and a new rule was recently introduced stipulating that two inspectors accompany every foreign fishing vessel within Namibian waters . |
| 19 | By far the most widespread activity of PNP staff in the general area of home-school links involved reading or other language work with parents and their children . |
| 20 | ‘ It must be terrible for her , ’ Joe went on , ‘ her son gone missing and all this stuff about him on the radio and television . ’ |
| 21 | Due to its dismantling at Barry and other locations , several components had gone missing and these needed movement and others had to be manufactured from new . |
| 22 | When she was dressing to go out Sally was invariably unable to find the belt she wanted , one shoe had gone missing or one stocking developed a ladder . |
| 23 | I 'm still left wondering whether this sort of statement in policy is in accord with the advice now contained |
| 24 | TV 'S BULLSEYE star Jim Bowen was left reeling after mindless vandals wrecked his distinctive Rolls-Royce . |
| 25 | P.P. showed no consistent shifts of gaze to a target ; L.A.H. showed some visually guided reaching but poor shifts of gaze , and acuity around 1cycledeg -1 ( equivalent to a newborn ) . |
| 26 | One is left hoping that this painstaking and honourable labour of loathing helps to exorcise the most evil spirit in Norwegian history . |
| 27 | In these past two years and more , since Matthew had been employed with David , distancing himself from the old man and returning to the family fold , Beth had never stopped hoping that one day he might turn to her with affection . |
| 28 | ‘ After a time demand just kept growing and growing and we did n't have the finance to boost production to keep pace with it . |
| 29 | But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested . |
| 30 | And she 's kept trying and that 's what makes me think she 's got |