Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom 's work mostly involves checking for sharp teeth and rasping them smooth . |
| 2 | In the reign of Henry III Simon son of Norman , forester of fee of Kingswood in the forest of Essex , had under him five walking foresters , each guarding his own ward : they paid him annually sums ranging from 5s to 2 marks for their perquisites , which included the right to levy cheminage . |
| 3 | Corral generally prefers buying from commercial galleries rather than auction houses and she often consults the artists about the works the Museum intends to buy . |
| 4 | The act of investment usually involves abstaining from current consumption in order to acquire assets , which raise the productive potential of the economy , and therefore the possibilities for future consumption . |
| 5 | The occupational therapist 's role usually includes advising on suitable types of clothing for the patient , partly to make dressing simple and practical , and also so that the clothing chosen is helpful in the process through which the patient relearns to dress himself . |
| 6 | We do this by having a structured programme to our day which , hopefully introduces leaning to each individual 's life and encourages their participation in the daily tasks within the home . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that he is so determined to retain control that he deliberately avoids working with famous directors such as Bertolucci , Cronenberg or Karel Reisz . |
| 8 | By contrast , the routine immediate use of heparin for all patients being treated with aspirin and thrombolysis still requires testing in large-scale randomised trials . |
| 9 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 10 | Only interpersonal trust has been found to reduce the extreme forms of communication filtering arising from a defensive ‘ me ’ fighting the system , and even trust rarely reduces filtering to zero . |
| 11 | It also means calling into further question the neutrality of these UN forces in the eyes of the Serbs and Croats , and thus the neutrality of all the UN 's providers of aid in Bosnia . |
| 12 | This technique may be seen as an extension of the basic co-occurrence methods , as it includes the concept of matching using a group of semantic relatives ( rather than just the word itself ) and also matches according to specific syntactic relations . |
| 13 | Barclays Bank , which has a six-point plan , also suggests taking to existing franchisees about the product or service to be offered . |
| 14 | I think there are two points there , firstly I think that the York greenbelt should not be drawn overly tightly , it should allow for some provision for peripheral post two thousand and six , because there will be inevitably demands arising in that period , which can not be met in the new settlement , and I disagree with the County Council on their approach on that matter . |
| 15 | This really means cutting in angled sweeps , allowing the double blade to cut on the forward and return arc . |
| 16 | Solving today 's business problems often means working with several computer vendors . |
| 17 | Foraging for food in the depths of winter often means travelling through deep snow , and this takes its toll of the goat population . |
| 18 | Both raise key issues for the social sciences , and , although Winch 's text is the occasion of our raising them , we are not claiming to exhaust his subtle text , which well repays reading in full . |
| 19 | Keener particularly enjoys working with contemporary composers and talks warmly of his sessions with Sir Michael Tippett , Robert Saxton , Robert Simpson and John Tavener . |
| 20 | The priest then tries counting to five before number six can respond ‘ Not I sir ’ . |
| 21 | Diana 's brother , Charles , just down from Eton , vividly remembers bowing to one of the waiters . |
| 22 | Sometimes they may end with one side going extinct , in which case the other side presumably stops evolving in that particular progressive direction , and indeed it will probably even ‘ regress ’ for economic reasons soon to be discussed . |
| 23 | Orolowetsky makes no such miscalculations , but he seldom produces playing of real imagination either . |