Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income tax is by far the most important direct tax , alone contributing almost 26% of government receipts . |
| 2 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 3 | Somewhere in between are good plants for small gardens , only reaching about 2ft with a far daintier habit . |
| 4 | While only offering about 20ft of new climbing , it solves the main challenge of the capping roof : a formidable test piece with potentially fatal consequences in the event of a fall . |
| 5 | And er I 'm just laying there thinking of |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not feeling particularly kind at the moment , ’ Mrs Doran snapped . |
| 7 | Around 330,000 people are already subscribing around £21 per month to receive up to 35 channels per day , according to figures released yesterday . |
| 8 | News of the two games came as Tottenham announced they had wiped out their debts by finally banking almost £6m from the Italians for the gifted Gascoigne . |
| 9 | Turkoman storage bag , usually measuring c. 4′ × 2′ 6″ ( 1.22 × 0.76 m ) . |
| 10 | Some enterprising yards install big washing machines and then offer a horse laundry service , usually charging about £5 per rug . |
| 11 | ‘ I do have some sympathy with the message that MPs should do more campaigning as MPs around Scotland and in the constituencies — that is something we shall certainly take very seriously . ’ |
| 12 | Of ancient multiple units that keep going well beyond their years , the bane of commuters but still offering forward views of stunning coastal and moorland scenery . |
| 13 | Long after breaking with the Campaign Group , Beckett was still offering comradely greetings to its supporters in its party conference newsletter . |
| 14 | The ESF Unit ( Electronic Sow Feeding Unit ) at the NAC Pig Unit , put up using around £250,000 of company money eight years ago , has achieved 25 pigs reared per sow per year . |
| 15 | Vera turned up for a cup of coffee dinner time and ended up staying there rest of the afternoon dinner with us , oh no come on in , give us it , where you sitting , off she went |
| 16 | However , Northern blot analysis ( Fig. 2 ) show a transcript of about 3.2 kb suggesting that the cDNA clone is close to full length , probably missing only part of the 3' untranslated sequence and the poly A tail . |
| 17 | They penetrate south to varying degrees , blue and minke whales often appearing well south of the pack ice edge . |
| 18 | Products designated as sportswear have also taken a more significant share , now representing almost 9% of volume . |
| 19 | The problem in today 's computer industry is that a company needs to be not just adequately well run but superbly well run to turn in acceptable numbers : Hewlett-Packard Co , now doing over $16,000m of business has 20,000 fewer employees than Digital Equipment Corp , which is still stuck at around $14,500m . |
| 20 | A third is reportedly facing around $1bn in outstanding claims , and nearly all the top 20 firms are facing claims of some sort . |
| 21 | But there are changes in what readers know automatically , even leaving aside questions of education , social background , gender , ethnicity or age . |
| 22 | Because even in the absence of strategic guidance in the past it has n't stopped local authorities actually bringing forward policies in their local plans . |
| 23 | The Isère is currently spending around 24% of its budget on culture . |
| 24 | The company is currently spending around £1m on lorries and trailers every year . |
| 25 | Revenue is currently running nearly 10% below last year 's pre-Christmas levels as foreign consumer brands refuse to compete with cheaper UK goods . |
| 26 | It is highly unlikely that any reader of this sentence will interpret rare in the sense of ‘ undercooked ’ ( as in a rare steak ) , or steep in the sense of ‘ unjustifiably high ’ ( as in steep charges ) , or bank in the sense of ‘ financial institution ’ , or burn in the sense of ‘ injury caused by fire ’ , or run in the sense of ‘ progress by advancing each foot alternately never having both feet on the ground simultaneously ’ , etc . |
| 27 | Erm that this council had a tradition of actually putting forward information in as straightforward a way as possible and indeed the attitude of the citizens ' er charter working party demonstrates that we actually put a value on this and it seems to me that there is a gap if you like , between what some people in the conservative group are doing in this context and what they 're actually doing in working parties and in committees and it comes out elsewhere as well . |
| 28 | How many married couples are there currently sitting as MPs in the House of Commons ? |
| 29 | Currently covering only 4% of the country the scheme gives farmers cash incentives to help manage the countryside for wildlife . |