Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if Mr Lang decided on a form of franchising rather than the formation of privatised companies , that would be seen as privatisation by the back door . |
| 2 | Will it not encourage the image of a model singing rather than a singing model ? |
| 3 | From that point onward the story is a bonus but overall you read for the quality of language and the quality of seeing rather than the material . |
| 4 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 5 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 6 | It 's only a matter of hanging on until the Jacobites are out of the way . ’ |
| 7 | The gossip was that the farmer who owned the land was merely hanging on till the price came up to his requirements , then some builder would carve out of the hillside a super executive-type estate , with views for fifteen miles and mortgages for fifty years . |
| 8 | The afternoon was drawing in and the water was choppy under the keen wind . |
| 9 | The night was drawing in and the kids had gone home and the tunnel under the embankment was deep in shadow . |
| 10 | Do not make the mistake of reacting prematurely when a problem occurs . |
| 11 | The latter seeing only that a nation has been destroyed , regards the agreement as a peculiarly evil development of Imperialism … . |
| 12 | It has always been puzzling enough that the proportion of men in gynaecology is higher than in any virtually any other specialty , as if detachment were an advantage in this field . |
| 13 | Many thanks , Vic , both for stepping in when a gap had appeared in our programme , and for providing a stimulating look at an area most of us had n't seen , and indeed some views that we now never shall see . |
| 14 | Outside , he headed for the bridge and there , halfway across , he came at last to a halt , with traffic rushing past , the river gleaming below and the city reaching away in an infinite complex parade of shining white and pearly grey with light snapping from windows and cars . |
| 15 | At Platform Three stood a rake of blue and grey BR Mr. 1 coaches , headed by one of Vulcan Foundry 's famous ‘ Whistlers ’ , its 16 cylinders thumping gently and the turbocharger drilling away in the well-known manner which earned the class its nickname during 30 years and 250 Million train-miles of running over BR 's main lines . |
| 16 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 17 | Now , ’ he said , and lifted his sword again , spurring suddenly as the trumpet blared , followed by those on either flank . |
| 18 | That apart , the seating is comfortable , resembling an early Sixties sports racer position with the torso reclining somewhat and the legs almost horizontal . |
| 19 | My childhood was all about manners and how to hold your knife and fork and which glass to drink out of , and we had to curtsey , and as for my father , well , if I was looking like this — with blonde hair hanging down and the red lipstick — he would say I looked like a slut . |
| 20 | look at Bryony , with that red peaked hood and , and the front of this rain cover hanging down and the back bit all punched up at the back |
| 21 | It is binding only if the conditions of the normal justification thesis are substantially met independently of the consent . |
| 22 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 23 | In recent years the habit of the All Blacks leaving together and returning together after a trip to Europe has disappeared . |
| 24 | In other words , we need to identify areas of schematic knowledge which the learners will accept as independently relevant and worth acquiring so that the learning of the language is seen as the necessary means to a desired end . |
| 25 | but oh he he , he does do stripping obviously but the |
| 26 | There was no way of preventing anyone from walking in if a room were empty . |
| 27 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 28 | This conversation , occurring shortly after the conversation with Patrick recorded above , was taking place at Ludens 's flat , where a scrappy supper had been laid out by Ludens after Gildas 's telephone call . |
| 29 | But this time there 'd been an unfortunate accident — the worker had been distracted and had applied the blow torch to a pipe opening just as the varnish was starting to flow . |
| 30 | Far from dying away as the century progressed , this anti-Darwinian and anti-adaptationist view of evolution became more powerful . |