Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Like I said at the beginning , Rickenbacker do n't churn designs out lightly ; the Atlantis and Excalibur are the result of careful consideration , and if you 're looking for a guitar that 's not only brimming with personality but is eminently playable in just about any style , I 'd suggest you check this one out , fast …
32 As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand .
33 you 're not exactly thinking about sex .
34 The preamble further asserts that the company are making ‘ considerable progress ’ on the remaining portion of the main line between Bishop 's Castle and the Cambrian , which is not exactly according to fact , in as far as the term ‘ considerable progress ’ is popularly understood .
35 But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it .
36 We are not just looking for tax disc dodgers , we are looking for insurance offences , or MOT offences and the condition of vehicles . ’
37 Such gimmicks have helped to make Virgin 's upper class service tempting to business passengers , but Virgin knows the real business is done by men like this , and they 're not just looking at service but also cost .
38 The human race is producing so much information — it is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts to people to half a world away .
39 It is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts , to people half a world away .
40 That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why .
41 That means not just searching for subject matter , but constantly reevaluating what I am doing and why .
42 He added : ‘ Players are not just training at club sessions , they continue to build up on their own .
43 Indeed , HIV could provide a means of encouraging people to broaden their sexual horizons , by not just relying on penetration as the goal of sexual pleasure .
44 Well , this is a slightly more complicated application , where you 're not just selling for example straight from stock , but you take orders from customers , and then you would have to manufacture , perhaps to buy in , to assemble , some sort of goods for sending out .
45 ‘ You 're not just asking for money , though , are you ? ’ he said .
46 It 's not just standing in court .
47 You 're not just paying for milk .
48 We are not just talking about information ; we are talking about the ability to respond to the living language .
49 And attacks quite deliberate , not just happening by accident .
50 Though by that time , he was not usually thinking of nourishment but the simple satisfaction of hunger .
51 this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything
52 Er we also had one very large , cumbersome machine which carried things like lighting and breathing apparatus , and heavy lifting gear and all the other bits and pieces of rescue equipment , which came along in slow time , now that has been improved upon no end , and they 've got a very modern equipment now for that , erm er modern in the sense that new , new pieces have come on , cutting equipment with hydraulic jaws which er just slice through the top of a car roof , whereas we had to cut it with a hacksaw perhaps , or , or another metal saw , we , these can be done with just like cutting through cheese .
53 But the failings are not a reason for abandoning a system which is based upon very reasonable principles , although not always working in practice .
54 By contrast with the Liberal understanding , the kingdom as Blumhardt preached it was not gradually evolving through history , nor identified with the moral progress of human civilisation , but would come ‘ from beyond ’ .
55 The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age .
56 She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition .
57 Save The Children 's work is not just about dealing with emergency situations .
58 and things are just about going to plan
59 I trust they 're not now living in sin . ’
60 ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said .
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