Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Before we move on , it is worth noticing that just as the debate about the Bible rested to a large extent on a rather dubious notion of what kind of authority was in question , so too the argument about miracles was one in which both sides generally shared an equally questionable concept . |
| 2 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 3 | AN Alton man , who was caught driving while more than two and a half times over the legal alcohol limit , has been banned from the roads for 22 months . |
| 4 | And started laughing as soon as I did that started laughing . |
| 5 | ‘ I know what was happening as soon as I felt the familiar ache in my lower back and a rush of blood , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Marie originally did most of the cooking , and subsequently continued to supervise menu planning and food purchasing as well as handling the accounting aspects . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm willing to abide by all laws — and I 'll try to persuade other Romanies to do the same , but I 'm not likely to succeed until my people can see these laws protecting as well as persecuting them . ’ |
| 8 | He was dying as well as the man at the airport . |
| 9 | As so often with convergent evolution , the differences are revealing as well as the similarities . |
| 10 | One of Dublin 's funniest comedians Carl McDermott will be appearing as well as Scotland 's answer to Paul Daniels — Kevin Kopfstein , a magician/ comic . |
| 11 | The Voces Quartet , consisting of four professors from the conservatory in Iaşi ( Moldavia ) , is a most accomplished ensemble whose playing shows understanding as well as outstanding technical assurance : the rather edgy 1980 recording does not flatter it , but its quality is nevertheless evident . |
| 12 | And we saw in 1.2 and again in 5.4 that the strongest sceptical arguments attack understanding as well as knowledge . |
| 13 | The act of copulation usually only takes about five seconds , ejaculation occurring as soon as the male has entered the female . |
| 14 | Local centre events were often challenging as well as rewarding and perhaps none more so than South Cumbria 's ‘ Operation Isolate ’ . |
| 15 | This form of acquired dyslexia is sometimes called pure alexia or alexia without agraphia , the reason being that , as a rule , these patients have no impairment of writing or spelling , and so they contrast with patients having other kinds of acquired dyslexia , all of whom have had impaired writing and spelling as well as impaired reading . |
| 16 | Management will move at the same pace , absorbing as proactively as possible those contributions to continued improvement which , regardless of their source , focus on quality assurance . |
| 17 | According to the estate this is running at around £30,000 per annum and in addition to this , a survey that would take into account climbing as well as safety interests would cost a further £10,500 . |
| 18 | It was as if the flat was meant to satisfy inquiries provoked by Stavanger 's long absence by suggesting that even if he was not living there , he was still around and capable of dealing with his affairs . |
| 19 | They are most readily shown at the times when the young are hatching and again when they are fledging . |
| 20 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 21 | Eliza is portrayed as the most emotionally-balanced member of her family : she is loving as well as reasonable ( hence the original title of the book — ‘ Love and Reason ’ ) . |
| 22 | Although Hoccleve believes in the sacrament he has no wish to prove dark theological matters ( or , probably , to enter on a long psychoanalysis , which , though free , will mean listening as well as talking ) . |
| 23 | It would be encouraging to believe that he was capable of listening as well as jeering . |
| 24 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 25 | This fashion for walking was tiring as well as tedious and his leg troubled him . |
| 26 | ( Restaurants , page 278 ) began writing as soon as he could form the letters and was first published as a poet , although it is his novels that have made him a household name . |
| 27 | ( f ) The new partnership agreement Whilst agreements on particular matters should be set down in writing as soon as they have been concluded , that should not be regarded as an adequate substitute for a properly drafted partnership agreement for the new firm to be in place from the outset of business . |
| 28 | Neville Cardus gained a devoted following for his lyrical cricket writing as well as his musical reviews for the Manchester Guardian between the wars . |
| 29 | Adult literacy campaigns aim to improve writing as well as reading . |
| 30 | Our recommendations for the National Curriculum emphasise the importance of drafting , the process of writing as well as the final product . |