Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags . |
| 2 | However , such effects require a laser light source producing only a very narrow band of wavelengths , a source not available in nature . |
| 3 | So she did , sparing only the most intimate details . |
| 4 | Around Newbury from one to three lives was the rule , while at Faringdon tenure was hereditary , reflecting perhaps the mainly pastoral economy of the district . |
| 5 | There is obvious merit in good insulation , using only the most efficient kitchen appliances , heating systems and such . |
| 6 | USING ONLY THE MOST PRACTICAL OF MODERN MATERIALS . |
| 7 | Many companies , using only the most casual euphemisms , offer these services , so we spent a day on the phone talking to detective agencies listed in Yellow Pages , asking them what they had to offer . |
| 8 | Passed down to master distillers through the centuries , it is this recipe and the insistence on using only the very best natural ingredients that sets Gordon 's Gin apart . |
| 9 | In the process whereby a child comes to act in accordance with the rules and values of society , becoming eventually a reasonably self-controlled , inner-directed member of the community , one of the first steps is the development of self-restraint . |
| 10 | By 1952 he was becoming all the more determined that the United States should not be tarred with the colonial brush . |
| 11 | Criminals are becoming all the more enterprising in their efforts . |
| 12 | But evolution ploughed on remorselessly , enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage . |
| 13 | I was astonished when we began walking down the now weed-strewn path to feel a familiar feeling of fear and expectation . |
| 14 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 15 | But with Bunny Wailer oddly quiet in the writing stakes and Tosh contributing only the previously recorded ‘ 400 Years ’ , this is Marley 's show , and on ‘ Concrete Jungle ’ , ‘ Slave Driver ’ and ‘ Stir It Up ’ , no-one could argue that this is not a fascinating record . |
| 16 | BUOYED by Denmark 's decisive Yes to Maastricht , three other Nordic governments are knocking all the more vigorously on the door of the European Community . |
| 17 | For those who find walking just a little to much like hard work , take the longest chairlift in Europe to the ‘ First ’ peak at 7,150 ft and enjoy the glorious views and the grandeur of the mountains without being out of breath ! |
| 18 | He landed and stared down at me and at the blood of my broken wing , his terrible beak opening just a little with the pleasure of what he saw ; while I hung there , trying to watch all three at once and knowing that one of them would attack suddenly and then be gone as another came in from a different direction . |
| 19 | When pushed , he explained that in his line of work ‘ cutting corners ’ , ‘ fudging ’ , ‘ giving out disinformation ’ and ‘ cheating just a little ’ are part of the rules ( unstated , but there ) of the job . |
| 20 | Yet revisionist work underlines the enormous difficulties that would have confronted even the most gifted of tsars in shoring up a rigidly conservative regime . |
| 21 | If the choice now is between shoring up a democratically bankrupt Westminster or standing up for the restoration of Scottish democracy , then I am for Scottish democracy . |
| 22 | But now it was all opening up a little . |
| 23 | About ½ inch ( 1.5cm ) or a fraction more below the selected bud , make a cut about ⅛ inch ( 0.3cm ) deep and sloping downwards a little as shown in Figure 17 . |
| 24 | But even this admiration can be a form of ageism if , by singling out the truly remarkable , we minimise the more mundane but no less significant achievements of so many very old people . |
| 25 | Almost all PCBs are believed to enter the oceans via the atmosphere , enabling even the most remote parts of the globe to become contaminated . |
| 26 | The result of these indicated the ongoing commitment by regional office and site staff with all regions returning either a very small number of minor non-conformances or none at all . |
| 27 | So one is left with the impossible task of explaining why a perfectly respectable causal chain should ‘ go mental ’ for a while and then , recovering its non-senses , should return to being purely physical . |
| 28 | In the second half of this period , under Secretaries of State such as the Duc de Choiseul ( 1758–70 ) and the Comte de Vergennes ( 1774–87 ) it was becoming steadily a more and more effective machine . |
| 29 | ’ You can see where it starts to go wrong , sticking just a little too closely for comfort to the original . |
| 30 | Among other things I hit on the idea of writing down a very simple minuet , in order to see whether she could not compose a variation on it . |