Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am twittering on about buying a new workshop , equipping it with this or that kind of planer/thicknesser , getting this or that panel saw . |
| 2 | They 're making so much noise I think we could be in danger of being moved on for creating a public disturbance . ’ |
| 3 | In relation to the ‘ content versus form ’ issue , it is perhaps worth mentioning a possible link with the more general debate about what is called ‘ moral reasoning ’ . |
| 4 | At this early stage in your video career , do n't worry too much about making a complete record of the day . |
| 5 | Do n't worry too much about giving a good speech . |
| 6 | But such data gain significance only through serving a larger enquiry , for example into how children have a better understanding of a problem ( or person ) through role-play , or how a raw experience may be organised through a particular approach to writing . |
| 7 | Only through becoming a continuing ‘ reflective practitioner ’ can the student and graduate — avoid succumbing naively to conventional ‘ wisdom ’ . |
| 8 | Thank you very much for making a further valuable contribution to the work of our Tourism Group . |
| 9 | The four basic relations between classes furnish a model not only for establishing a fundamental group of sense relations , but also for defining a set of systematic variants applicable to virtually all other paradigmatic sense relations . |
| 10 | He was going to carpet her not only for arresting a part-time MI6 agent for murder without sufficient evidence , but also for fraternising with the ‘ funnies ’ between the sheets . |
| 11 | AN Ulster school is considering action against its town 's deputy mayor for saying it should be shut down for teaching a new sex education project . |
| 12 | An egalitarian mixture of social realism and modernism , the Festival conjured up a real sense of design direction : it was all about building a better environment for everyone , with stylish cars , labour-saving gadgets and buildings that were easier to inhabit . |
| 13 | These are 30 ’ x 21 ’ and are much less about recording a particular view and more about trying to come to terms with the atmosphere and structure of the place . |
| 14 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 15 | Even with myself , I 'm all for painting a frank portrait . |
| 16 | Why , for example , should a bureau with the depth of experience of the Cotswold Press suddenly find that halfway through outputting a multi-hundred page job from Word that the fonts change ? |
| 17 | It was quickly established that the occupier could not be liable under the rule merely for permitting a spontaneous accumulation ( e.g . |
| 18 | Corydoras ' barbels can wear down through using a coarse , sharp substrate , but I think your problem is bacterial . |
| 19 | The photographs of school-children under fire in Beirut , of pupils piling into tin shacks for lessons in Namibia , of students reading ( in between sinking a new well and sowing next year 's crop ) in Laos , give off that same feeling of excitement as the Oxford students . |
| 20 | But he failed to follow up quickly enough after delivering a thumping right of his own in round four . |
| 21 | The Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division granted the applicant a declaration to the effect that the Director was entitled to ask him questions after he had been charged but only after administering a fresh caution and that the fact of such a caution would be reasonable excuse for a refusal to answer within section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 . |
| 22 | I arrive at length at the present appeal , one striking feature of which is that , whilst not formally abandoning them , counsel for the applicant has not pressed with any vigour either of the grounds upon which the Divisional Court decided in his favour , namely that the Director was entitled to ask questions after charge but only after administering a fresh caution , and that the fact of such a caution would be a reasonable excuse for a refusal to answer , within section 2(13) of the Act of 1987 . |
| 23 | It was 15 years before I again strapped myself into a microlight — and that was only after acquiring a full Group A licence . |
| 24 | Williamson 's advice to the organizational designer is to operate in a discriminating way , that is only after making a comparative assessment of the costs of using one organizational form rather than another . |
| 25 | ‘ Bill ’ , weighed an astonishing 1,157.5 kg just before he was put down after suffering a broken leg in an accident en route to the Chicago World Fair for exhibition in 1933 . ’ |
| 26 | In a home match against Huddersfield Town , Newcastle were 3–2 down after conceding a questionable penalty to the visitors . |
| 27 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 28 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 29 | There will be an excellent chance not only of finding a good job but of receiving up to £4,000 above the regular salary . |
| 30 | In some ways , I suppose buying a new detector is much like buying a new car . |