Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of these expectations , funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets , thereby driving down long-term interest rates . |
| 2 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 3 | And the book is pushing back and the pen pushing on each other , so pushing out that way . |
| 4 | With only going in last night and |
| 5 | only going back one year . |
| 6 | She took the kitten in its little cardboard box to the bedroom and was constantly getting up all night , peering at the tiny bundle of black fur . |
| 7 | Many pressure groups set themselves the task of sedulously winning over influential opinion to their view of the future . |
| 8 | Some nuns and priests chose to go into the FMLN controlled zones where they are not only carrying out religious work but also helping in the educational campaigns . |
| 9 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 10 | Claire now conscious of rogue hairstyle , lopsidedly dangling over left eye . |
| 11 | Ricardo argued that population growth would bring lower grade agricultural land into production , thereby pushing up average food prices and diverting increasing social resources into landlords ' rents . |
| 12 | Scene one is the elderly gent wearily prowling round one bookshop after another in a hopeless search for a volume on fly-fishing by J R Hartley . |
| 13 | Simple as that , cos this plan , is like a sort of pay as you go type plan , I mean , you 're not building up huge cash reserves that you gon na lose out on , by cancelling early , |
| 14 | America says it is not ruling out military action against Iraq following its defiance of Gulf War ceasefire terms . |
| 15 | These groups refused to be specific as regards how far they would go in their opposition but , as Peter Shanley of the MEG told Today Tonight ‘ We 're not ruling out any action whatsoever ’ . |
| 16 | Much of the impetus behind such thinking has come from dowsers who realized that they were not just picking up underground water but something else , which they called telluric force . |
| 17 | Where order is concerned , it appears that teachers are disrespected not only for not meting out appropriate punishment when deserved ( within the official theory ) , but also for not exercising discipline within the classroom . |
| 18 | The band had a policy of not turning down any gig offer , regardless of whether playing it would be profitable . |
| 19 | So we 're not going up this weekend then ? |
| 20 | ‘ Maybe a crafty old head would say , ‘ I 'm not going down that wing again ’ , but not Lee . |
| 21 | And he says , it were n't bad enough me not going out that day , but with it being nice weather and all . |
| 22 | You 're better not going out this sort of weather . |
| 23 | You 're not going out this morning are you ? |
| 24 | Oh you 're alright you 're not , I 'm not going out this morning |
| 25 | you 're just paying out that amount of money and suddenly in one goes ' a big , bi , like quite a shock . |
| 26 | The last thing she wanted to do was to encourage their flaring in response to an incautious comment , especially as , since he had got his own way about her not flying out that day , his behaviour had been impeccable . |
| 27 | To make sure you 're not dishing up any trouble for you or your family during the forthcoming festivities , Domestos has some simple hygiene rules to follow in the kitchen |
| 28 | Not easy getting up that rope with angry snake behind . |
| 29 | But they must be at their best to overcome the visitors , who are comfortably holding down third place in the division . |
| 30 | Irritably , ‘ I 'm not starting up that discussion again . ’ |