Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's only a matter of hanging on until the Jacobites are out of the way . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Do not make the mistake of reacting prematurely when a problem occurs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Claudia , sleeping hardly at all and eating only when a worried Myra stood over her , got through them as best she could . |
| 10 | Now , ’ he said , and lifted his sword again , spurring suddenly as the trumpet blared , followed by those on either flank . |
| 11 | It is binding only if the conditions of the normal justification thesis are substantially met independently of the consent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In recent years the habit of the All Blacks leaving together and returning together after a trip to Europe has disappeared . |
| 14 | There was no way of preventing anyone from walking in if a room were empty . |
| 15 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Far from dying away as the century progressed , this anti-Darwinian and anti-adaptationist view of evolution became more powerful . |
| 19 | I heard them laughing still as the car pulled off down the lane . |
| 20 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
| 21 | Passengers were still climbing off while the second load of passengers were scrambling on . |
| 22 | In earlier times the former had been underachieving educationally whereas the latter are now near the peak of their attainment level . |
| 23 | The Evangelical Alliance , representing more than a million Christians of all denominations , was so concerned over the increasing problems created by the occult that it published Doorways to Danger . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Ken was returning home when the crash happened . |
| 25 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
| 26 | A rod that is propped at 45° to the water , quivering slightly as the current pushes against the line , will suddenly slam over as though it has been struck with a sandbag . |
| 27 | Walking out after the first act was becoming an addiction . |
| 28 | His sensory feedback had not informed him that this was happening even though the tension needed to throw his head back had been tremendous . |
| 29 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 30 | There 's no chance of this occurring here as the Doctors continue on their premeditated way to becoming this generation 's Wolfe Tones ( dreary Irish folk re-pub-licans from the '70s ) . |