Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another case in which good relationships would have helped was that of an attention seeking woman who had spent most of her life in hostels and was constantly getting struck off general practitioners ' lists . |
| 2 | In 1737–8 he served on a committee of the Goldsmiths ’ Company , promoting the Plate Offences Act , and moved up through the hierarchy of the court , only failing to serve as prime warden . |
| 3 | It 's bad enough having to rely on old daddy Reagan and Maggie Thatcher . |
| 4 | The CNAA was constantly having to negotiate on uncertain frontiers , and interpret and define forms of higher education for which there were no clear precedents or guidelines . |
| 5 | We do not know whether all learning depends on similar processes , or whether , in higher animals , it also involves the creation or loss of connections . |
| 6 | It 's bad enough trying to fly with unequal line lengths ; having an asymmetric kite can be most frustrating ! |
| 7 | A spokesman said : ‘ These include Government plans to charge VAT on coal , gas and electricity bills — a move which could hit the pockets of millions of older people throughout the UK , including many of the 100,000 pensioners in Northern Ireland , who are already struggling to survive on low pensions and reduced income . ’ |
| 8 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 9 | Are we simply to chuck out these extra six constituencies and say no to the French , we 're not going to agree to extra silly expenditure or are we in fact going to cave in as we 've done so often . |
| 10 | The odd bar of chocolate is enjoyable for most people and is not going to result in ill health . |
| 11 | We 're just going to write to local councils arbitrarily and and see what comes up . |
| 12 | Emmie felt frightened as if she were just going to jump into deep water . |
| 13 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 14 | Nizan 's communist novels , produced within this global historical framework , may consequently be contextualised in the following manner : ( a ) Antoine Bloye , written between 1931 and 1933 , was produced at a moment of sectarian cultural politics , a moment when the French communist party was just beginning to emerge from political isolationism , a moment when the French working class was just beginning to reassert itself . |
| 15 | The huge house at Deauville , with its gardens and private beach , was sold to one of the newly oil-rich Americans just beginning to invest in European property . |
| 16 | A blackbird sang from a hazel tree with swinging yellow catkins ; buds were just beginning to open into miniature bright green leaves . |
| 17 | Prussian industrialisation was part of a wave of change that was sweeping over the whole of Western Europe and which was just beginning to filter into Eastern Europe . |
| 18 | The boy crouched , glaring up at him fiercely , still panting , his suffused face marked now by the lean white stains of the blows , just beginning to flood with angry red . |
| 19 | Firstly , more harmonization activity has been brought within the scope of majority voting , thus getting rid of national vetoes . |
| 20 | There are also very many Christians who , while not wishing to engage in holy war in the literal sense , are perfectly prepared to crush to powder the cultures of those they convert , and millions more who would condemn those of other faiths as false , if not idolatrous , and who would wish to have nothing to do with them . |
| 21 | No one then supposed , however , that the atoms were not moving according to strict laws . |
| 22 | It 's already beginning to happen as retro-bolting increases ( see our Compass columns for an excellent example ) . |
| 23 | Others point out , however , that the combination of high public deficits and budget restraint is already beginning to eat into necessary public and private investment in infrastructure , from roads to new technology . |
| 24 | People are already beginning to think of pre- and post-AIDS periods just as we in the seventies grew accustomed to thinking of pre- and post-gay liberation periods . |
| 25 | Bold print , clear layout of the page and adequate margin and spacing between words and letters , however , may well mean that at least in deciphering print , the pupil with sight difficulties is not having to deal with unnecessary complexities to compound existing problems . |
| 26 | He interrogates everyone : a Rouen merchant who amazes him by not having heard of mint sauce , and a canon of Evreux who informs him that in France the men read too much , while the women read next to nothing ( o rarer still Emma Bovary ! ) . |
| 27 | Even the amount of time saved by not having to fiddle with reel-to-reel tapes is noticeable , and in a home environment where space is at a premium it helps with the problem of tape storage . |
| 28 | Skin generally starting to age like old handbag or bodywork of car : not bad at distance , but close to , mysteriously patterned , like surface of Mars . |
| 29 | Mother , who was two or three years older , used to worry herself sick about the way he toiled , going on every hour sent in all weathers , and not stopping to change into dry clothes when the weather was wet . |
| 30 | My husband and I had always lamented not learning to ski as young children so we did n't want Jessica , our two-year-old , to miss out too . |