Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1977 ) and polynya areas among the channels of the Canadian Arctic archipelago ( Stirling and Cleator , 1981 ) have specially favourable conditions of mixing and upwelling that promote relatively high productivity in summer . |
| 2 | Photographing wildlife sounds easy — have your camera at the ready when you 're out walking and click away when you spot something . |
| 3 | Parents caught in this situation need the opportunity to balance their views about what is happening and watch more carefully for the trigger to the behaviour problems . |
| 4 | He laughed under his breath and looked at her with reluctant appreciation , but Alyssia did n't notice because she was staring out of the window at the passing scenery , keeping her fingers tightly crossed that the car would n't stop wheezing and die completely on them before they reached Nice . |
| 5 | There are , then , different conventions for these forms of writing that relate directly to the differences of function and context . |
| 6 | A Grammar of Metaphor does not , by itself , constitute a theory of metaphor , and I have therefore had to rely on theories developed by philosophers and literary critics , while indicating where these fail to account for the aspects of Brooke-Rose 's writing that seem most interesting . |
| 7 | It was er er I mean the , the peasants apparently were , were sort of accounting , they were looking and say well this particular er landlord was , was very unhelpful , he was very anti us and in er because of that he will get a , a worse erm punishment than , than the other ones would . |
| 8 | Many modern taps have ceramic discs , which do not need rewashering and require only ½ or ¼ of a turn to operate . |
| 9 | Remove from freezer 10 mins before serving and serve together . |
| 10 | Add the olive oil and capers just before serving and toss again . |
| 11 | Well at times I feel like erm you 're dealing with things that are just totally beyond you and you feel as if you 're sinking and feel totally helpless . |
| 12 | Stop doubting and believe more firmly ! |
| 13 | Employees have often found their work with new machines less physically demanding and have often regarded it as more skilled . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it is worth recalling that Foucault never starts at the political , but rather begins with a contemporary problem and then addresses questions to politics about it . |
| 15 | By that I mean it is a way of bringing dignity , caring and love right into the heart of the impersonal secular world of modernity . |
| 16 | But I should imagine they were lying and stay there |
| 17 | Course manager Ian Duff has put the starting time back from 2.30pm in the hope of boosting the attendance and he pointed out : ‘ With the televised football not starting until after 7.00pm there should be enough time for people to leave their offices , go racing and come home to watch the soccer . ’ |
| 18 | Donaldson was not , however , quite correct in stating that Burn always followed the Vitruvian principle of waiting to be sought . |
| 19 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 20 | Since the Government first introduced road humps in 1981 , traffic engineers in too many councils have shown naked hostility to the idea of traffic calming and have completely set their face against the idea of road humps . |
| 21 | Dosh and Freddie did n't take much persuading but Chase thankfully declined saying that parties did n't like him . |
| 22 | The Department is examining that issue closely , in conjunction with the boards . |
| 23 | The software houses that have been slow to see the way the wind was blowing and have hardly started recasting their applications for Unix . |
| 24 | So stop moaning and plan ahead with some confidence . |
| 25 | On my entry , fifteen fat men in towels immediately stop what they 're doing and stare intently . |
| 26 | By picking off the documents that form the basis of the customer-supplier relationship one at a time , we can understand what we 're doing and become very effective very quickly . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I happened to observe you reading that notice below and it does seem to me that this challenging task might well be of interest to you . |
| 28 | He , himself , did not identity a shortfall in March 1992 , the context for determining that appeal then . |
| 29 | Siward , the man who , had he , Thorfinn , been standing under that cross and issuing that challenge instead of a priest , would have had no hesitation in ordering his best marksman to smite him dead with his bow or his javelin . |
| 30 | NCR Corp filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microbilt Corp , a subsidiary of First Financial Management Corp , alleging that Microbilt willfully infringed NCR 's patent on a handwriting capture device used at retail checkouts for customer signature verification . |