Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The world is only slowly emerging from recession and it is not certain whether Germany 's has been arrested . |
| 3 | Rob was so obviously brimming with enthusiasm that Merrill had to say carefully , ‘ I think it sounds delightful . ’ |
| 4 | Armstrong World Industries , so long concentrating on mineral fibre ceiling systems , has now introduced a metal laminate system — the ML ceiling . |
| 5 | Apparently not bleeding to death , or considered worthy of priority , I just had to wait my turn . |
| 6 | I would add that toy manufacturers used a good deal of imagination and licence when they produced their models , perhaps not taking into account the keen eye and future criticism of FlyPast readers ! |
| 7 | Trying to pretend he had mistaken her for someone else was obviously not going to work . |
| 8 | This can be applied to the case of marriage , where there will of course be usually sanctions of varying degrees against behaviours that threaten marriage , and sexual activity outside marriage may be disapproved of , but this does not imply that merely not engaging in marriage is disapproved of , nor that an unmarried condition is sanctioned . |
| 9 | The dismantling of that establishment is only just getting under way . |
| 10 | But did it not occur to you , ’ Theda said , her breast heaving with the passion she was only just holding in check , ‘ that I have lately not been seen ? |
| 11 | As curare was only just emerging from obscurity ( see Chapter 6 ) , this was a very prompt seizure of a new opportunity for therapy . |
| 12 | Was n't there a tiny nagging feeling on watching the re-runs of Butterflies that perhaps he would have been better off sticking to television comedy series and enjoying their rich rewards ? |
| 13 | I says I think , this year , you 'd be better off stopping at home . |
| 14 | For once she would probably have been better off staying at home as far as the weather was concerned . |
| 15 | And since she could not say , " About horrid Ben Braithwaite for wasting two years of Linnet 's youth and having his dreary wedding on a day when Gemma would have been better off staying in bed , " she chirruped brightly , " Everything , darlings — because this is what I want us to do . |
| 16 | Yeah but the thing is you 're better off going to Gateway first . |
| 17 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 18 | Well we 'll go down now going to dinner , we 're going to dinner with him . |
| 19 | Some of the answers are only now coming to light as we find out more about the structures of the proteins that go to make up living cells themselves . |
| 20 | The full impact of last Thursday 's freak storm in Llandudno , Conwy and the surrounding areas is only now coming to light and it could be several months before some of the 500 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return . |
| 21 | A fine guitarist in many styles , his band combines professionalism with wry humour and a straightforward honesty of purpose ( so often lacking in music of this kind ) . |
| 22 | Only in Kempe 's noted version on EMI ( 2/88 ) have I felt so strongly the main attributes of Lohengrin : here Robert Heger , the very epitome of the Kapellmeister manner at its best , give to the many passages of formal utterance a grandeur and intensity so often missing in studio performances , culminating in a magnificent outpouring at the final greeting to Elsa in Act 2 . |
| 23 | These had left too many pupils of average ability or below either struggling with work beyond their abilities or following ‘ improvised ’ courses . |
| 24 | Although light and convenient , plastic is one of the most environmentally damaging of packaging materials . |
| 25 | I you mentioned going to college or or rather not going to college . |
| 26 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 27 | The rise in wages was therefore not basically damaging to profitability . |
| 28 | Specifically , this means not only taking into account man 's obvious close evolutionary ties with the chimpanzee and gorilla , but also his rather less obvious resemblance to another primate , the gelada baboon . |
| 29 | This is , without doubt , a book for professionals who are not only thinking about quality , but who want to instill a fundamental change in the way people think about and do their work . |
| 30 | When the Israelite desert tribes entered Canaan , they found a land not only flowing with milk and honey , but full of weeping and laughter in its religious rituals , quite different from anything they had known . |