Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day is drawing on and this apothecary 's shop is the very gateway to Hell . |
| 2 | Whilst the ATB has run courses on sheep fank design , more needs to be done on work planning for livestock handling so that each individual can adapt his own buildings to make the work easier . |
| 3 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 4 | Both have busy working lives and they realised they were seeing less and less of each other and spending their one day together , Sunday , in a daze . |
| 5 | ‘ With the unexpected accession of their parents to the throne , ’ said the voice from the television , with that odd blend of reverence and condescension reserved for royalty and its doings , ‘ the little princesses had to reconcile themselves to seeing less and less of their mother and father . |
| 6 | She 's made me think , think differently about … about gettin' on an' that , betterin' mesel' . |
| 7 | The fact that subjects could report fluctuating levels of subjective risk does little to discriminate between theories of risk in driving largely because these theories do not make sufficiently specific predictions about this subject . |
| 8 | But that had been all of thirty years ago , and very quickly these demands had multiplied , absorbing more and more time and energy , so that the moments of evening meditation were soon subsumed into the preoccupations and stresses of an active Christianity . |
| 9 | Major industrial companies are contributing more and more funds to charity — some now belongs to the 1% Club and try to reserve 1% of after-tax earnings for charitable purposes . |
| 10 | I 've taken the lorry back to the depot and I 'm walking home if that 's what 's worrying you . |
| 11 | Yet these non-Conservative elements — the Liberal Nationals and National Labour — were becoming more and more adjuncts to the Conservative party , and they owed their seats entirely to the willingness of the Conservatives not to oppose them in the constituencies . |
| 12 | I am becoming more and more of who I can be . |
| 13 | Instead the emphasis is on the developing relationships between characters becoming more and more of a genuine community through common loss . |
| 14 | it went into a steady decline , with the air war becoming more and more of a straight contest between the British and the Germans . |
| 15 | An alliance was struck , Teddy is gaining more and more sponsors . |
| 16 | It was also weighing on Bernard 's mind that they were opening more and more shops in Europe and yet the European commercial scene was not as stable as that in the UK . |
| 17 | I think what is happening now that these papers have been published , er , is that we , we will be receiving er , erm , information , consultation from user groups about user groups and the pos possible implication that these reductions will have upon their services , er , but George is there anything you want to add ? |
| 18 | Debris and tiny bodies circled like a halo of scurf , brightening periodically as those metal shards and corpses tilted to catch the sunlight of space … |
| 19 | Spending by British companies on research and development ( R&D ) , which dropped sharply between 1989 and 1991 as a result of the economic recession , appears to be rebounding even before any overall recovery , according to survey released last week by the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) . |
| 20 | He finished the service by announcing tersely that some of the large number of people jailed during the night had been released . |
| 21 | There was a drawing of the oak tree , two brave attempts at Sammy , a painting of five children blackberrying , one of a library with people sitting and walking round and several sketches of boots and flowers and half-eaten sandwiches . |
| 22 | This may leave the reader of the fabliau puzzling over whether this is a matter of a subconscious anarchistic attitude or a conscious perception governing the composition of the fabliaux . |
| 23 | A financial audit to ensure that systems of accounting and financial control are efficient and operating properly and that financial transactions have been correctly authorized and accounted for . |
| 24 | We were cast into impenetrable blackness , with the rain still cascading down and that devilish thing on the loose ! |
| 25 | With modern health care and medicines , people are living longer but that causes its own problems . |
| 26 | By section 72(5) a ‘ related offence ’ is defined as any offence committed in the course of infringement or passing off or any offence committed in connection with any infringement or passing off , being an offence involving fraud or dishonesty . |
| 27 | No good looking further than that . |
| 28 | Retailers have a tendency to be quite selfish people wanting more and more of a product that is selling well , but cancelling an order and telling you to go away and solve your own problems when there 's a product that is n't selling well . |
| 29 | In Chapter 1 we analysed power goals in detail ; those individuals whose profiles reflect a persistent theme of power will expend effort and energy in seeking more and more of it . |
| 30 | The exercises of relaxation then are gradually causing more and more muscles to act as dead weight , sagging down , hanging on the skeleton causing the weight and heaviness of the body to be seeming to increase gradually as we become increasingly relaxed . |