Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 2 | A HANDMADE Lonsdale skipping rope is standard issue for boxers and will dramatically improve fitness and stamina — skipping for ten minutes is equivalent to jogging for half an hour . |
| 3 | ‘ This crisis takes two forms : the size of the prison population ’ ( combined with the lack of prison places and the running expenses of locking up and catering for such a large number of prisoners ) ‘ and the demands on the probation and after-care service ’ ( Bottoms , 1990a : 5 ) . |
| 4 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 5 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 6 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 7 | The precise directions in respect of which the penal notice is sought should be specified by the solicitors when applying for such a penal notice . |
| 8 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 9 | Sort of standing and quivering with such a terrified look on her face . |
| 10 | In the event of death occurring in such a case I would accept that it could be an unnatural death . |
| 11 | Dying in such a cause , he was to be numbered amongst Christ 's martyrs , much more worthy of the name of Saint Thomas of Canterbury than he whom the Pope falsely before did canonize . |
| 12 | Dangerous driving is usually reserved for intentional dangerous driving or where it can be proved the defendant was driving in such a way as to fall within the new definition of ‘ driving dangerously ’ in section 2A ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 13 | It was with the aim of contributing to such an improvement , as the representative body of employers and business investors , that the 1988 Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) Task Force on business and urban regeneration came to three conclusions : first ( in line with the Government 's own beliefs ) , that business must take the lead in reversing urban decline ; second , that charity — governmental or voluntary — can not in itself deal with problems , and any regeneration must spring from private investment , commercially motivated ; and third , that the potential exists for such investment , provided that early projects are seen to succeed ( CBI , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | No German records relating to such a formation have so far been found , but it is possible that they were aircraft of III/ZG 26 . |
| 15 | The people who make the laws and regulations relating to such a highly technological activity as aviation are as capable of making mistakes as the engineers who build the aircraft and the crews that fly them . |
| 16 | Moreover , in an appeal to the High Court relating to such an order , the principle to be adopted is that set out by Lord Lane C.J. in Reg. v. Tottenham Justices , Ex parte Dwarkados Joshi [ 1982 ] 1 W.L.R. 631 . |
| 17 | This country is not prepared to accept the gospel of despair in mass unemployment , which is returning on such a scale today . |
| 18 | It was broken , and we should be wary of returning to such a rigid system . |
| 19 | Who could possibly advocate returning to such an unfair system ? |
| 20 | A person 's real self-interest would lie in his not keeping to such an agreement , while others did . |
| 21 | ‘ But , dear David , ’ she said pitifully , ‘ you ca n't want us interfering at such a moment . |
| 22 | IBM has invested so much in the development of , and so much more in the marketing of , OS/2 2.0 that it has to plough on with it even if in 18 months ' time it becomes clear that it is becoming at best a respectable also-ran in the desktop stakes . |
| 23 | At the base of the chamber is a half channel , often consisting of half a piece of drain pipe with half channels coming in from branch drains . |
| 24 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 25 | All that is needed in addition is a centre for image-processing and interpretation , costing about million a year . |
| 26 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 27 | There is a slowly burgeoning market for this type of entertainment , with many music and arts societies looking for such a programme . |
| 28 | Einstein spent the later years of his life looking for such a theory . |
| 29 | Staff were split into quality teams , meeting for half an hour each week , with team leaders meeting weekly , also for half an hour , to discuss suggestions raised by staff . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've practically exiled yourself from your family and your home and your friends , you think you 've failed your finals but you say you 've no intention of sitting your re-sits even if you have ; you 've no money and you have n't even been looking for a job ; you 're getting done for shop-lifting and you 're acting like such a fucking dick-head you seem determined to get shot of the last few pals you do have left … and all you can do is make smart-ass remarks . ’ |