Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impetus for suggesting so major an upheaval came from Coleridge , who felt an increasing sense of obligation to live up to the hopes so clearly implied by the Wedgwood annuity . |
| 2 | A silent , evil place , becoming more ominous the deeper they went . |
| 3 | Computers are becoming more popular every day and because they are so useful , it is important that you learn something about them . |
| 4 | The pilots were instructed simply to switch off their engines upon landing as taxi-ing the aircraft would be impossible . |
| 5 | She expects to find Minna and Becky sitting in a huff in the coffee lounge , keeping as great a distance as they can manage from their ridiculously costumed sisters and brother-in-law . |
| 6 | ALAN CORK , fast becoming as big a folk hero at Bramall Lane as he was down Wimbledon way , has set a new record . |
| 7 | ‘ I probably got it in the Seychelles , from walking around barefoot a great deal . |
| 8 | General Paul Gorman , a friend , actually gave rival briefings explaining how dim the contras ' chances were . |
| 9 | It blames current top management and the board itself for not understanding how bad the problems are or knowing how to solve them . |
| 10 | But now she looked around her , really seeing for the first time the humming activity of the fruit and vegetable market , breathing in the aromatic smells , noticing how charming the open square was , with its border of pizza stalls and cafés and bistros . |
| 11 | Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building . |
| 12 | Similarly , Corder , though sounding a note of caution about adopting too restrictive a model of description , expresses the view that pedagogy draws selectively from descriptions of language provided by linguistics . |
| 13 | Moreover , by adopting too clinical a scientific strategy , the spiritually enriching value in having an ecologically healthy and varied countryside for people with only a modicum of scientific knowledge , have been overlooked . |
| 14 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |
| 15 | Members of Parliament ( MPs ) became less dependent on aristocratic patrons without acquiring too great a dependence on the growing party organizations . |
| 16 | She pointed out to him the attraction of publishing so surprising a paper and urged him to do it as quickly as possible . |
| 17 | On Bosnia , while Britain has welcomed US involvement , it has had to keep itself from dismissing as laughable the feasibility of proposed US airdrops . |
| 18 | The argument of achieving ‘ self-fulfilment ’ and of ‘ living as normal a life as possible ’ is seriously flawed when set against the context of an environment that is essentially oppressive and unadaptive and in which professional power establishes and perpetuates patterns of dependency . |
| 19 | This decision is to be left to the governors of the school , but the Department of Education and Science is recommending as wide a definition as possible , to include legal guardians , foster parents and the head of a children 's home when the child is in care . |
| 20 | Once you 're satisfied that your spur socket wo n't result in the circuit serving too large a floor area , and you 've identified the socket as one from which you can run a spur , all you have to do is install your new socket where it 's needed , run the spur cable back to the socket that will feed it , and connect it in to the socket terminals . |
| 21 | You know , she 's living too wild a life ! |
| 22 | I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me , which had been buying my Lodging too dear a great deal . ’ |
| 23 | Edi Sudrajat , cautioned the military against setting " bad precedents " in politics , an intervention which was generally interpreted as a warning against seeking too large a role . |
| 24 | Scott , he said , must have specified Portland stone for his Gothic scheme , ‘ little knowing that he was fostering so deadly a foe to the architecture he was using ’ . |
| 25 | And it 's going so quick the fabric comes down there so quickly you ca n't actually see it to examine it , it 's coming down . |
| 26 | As he took it their fingers met , invoking so vivid a memory of the few seconds she had spent in his arms that she jerked away , spilling coffee into the saucer . |
| 27 | Churchill was contemptuous of Butler for occupying so marginal a Cabinet post — ‘ wiping the children 's noses and smacking their bottoms during war-time ’ — and exhorted him to steer well clear of the Public School question and , even more , of the religious settlement . |
| 28 | The Trade Disputes Act 1965 reversed Rookes v. Barnard in trade dispute cases by rendering not actionable a threat to break or induce the breach of a contract of employment . |
| 29 | Before the quick rush of protectiveness was swamped by the passionate need growing more insistent the longer he stayed . |
| 30 | ‘ Anna sat her finals in the summer and was leading as normal a life as possible until recently when the disease began to get much worse . |