Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wee Jocky was apparently steaming after a particularly hospitable Hogmanay and played a blinder . |
| 2 | What we were criticized and several senior councillors quite rightly said , the five thousand pound we were spending was only going to a very few . |
| 3 | Raised variants of /Ε/; are apparently spreading in a linguistically ordered way , with ‘ long ’ environments affected first . |
| 4 | Or it may be that one environment is over-stimulating for the child — a classroom full of other children , with colourful posters covering all the walls may be so distracting for a mildly hyperkinetic child that he or she behaves far worse than usual . |
| 5 | But this adroitness is constantly fighting against a humanly disruptive counterpoint . |
| 6 | A minority of landlords commanded sufficient capital to adapt successfully to farming based on hired labour and greater mechanization , thus contributing to a very sharp rise in Russia 's grain exports . |
| 7 | ‘ If you want me with you for a business meeting , ’ she protested huskily , ‘ you 're not acting in a very businesslike manner ! ’ |
| 8 | The British consul in Pernambuco ( admittedly reporting to a passionately anti-slavery government ) reckoned that the employer of slaves lost 12 per cent in interest which the capital spent on their purchase would otherwise have earned . |
| 9 | But a lot of the training does n't actually have a definite something that 's sort of a number because it 's actually getting people to do the work that they 're already doing in a slightly better way or to feel more confident |
| 10 | They were not opting for a particularly expensive scheme . |
| 11 | say we 've got it just running on a very weak mixture , erm |
| 12 | In the other semi final Loubenov/Slavov of Bulgaria seemed to blow up and stopped paddling 100m from the finish , finally arriving in a particularly unstable state . |
| 13 | She had fine , white skin , not opaque and dull , but translucent and bright , with the vivid come-and-go of vibrant blood close beneath it ; and she had beautiful hair , fine as an infant 's and black as jet , curving but not curling about a very shapely head , and cropped cunningly to underline the subtlety of the shaping . |
| 14 | As the child became more demanding in a more unpleasant manner the mother would respond negatively until a long sequence of shouting and hitting would develop . |
| 15 | The new ‘ box had to be capable of handling the torque of the highest performance versions whilst still fitting into a very small space . |
| 16 | Of quadrupled track being reduced to double , double to single , more blade ends and diamonds taken out , yet a highly complex system still remaining on a truly national scale . |
| 17 | If you want to take home brewing to a more advanced stage , which entails mashing and boiling with malt and hops rather than extracts , you should buy ‘ The Big Book of Brewing ’ by Dave Line or ‘ Brewing Better Beers ’ by Ken Shales . |
| 18 | I remember once dealing with a particularly brutal river scheme , and seeing hanging in the engineers ' porta-cabin , which overlooked the now canalized river , a calendar showing The Haywain . |
| 19 | Conversely , Henry VII 's shell is more tubular , probably allowing for a more natural appearance of majesty when positioning the funerary sceptres in the hands . |
| 20 | He 's one of two being reared on a South Oxfordshire farm by game-keeper Ian Beningfield , who is also looking after a much more common Tawny owl , as well as a kestrel and a buzzard . |
| 21 | The flaw in this disposition was that the advancing Germans were not only more numerous than the Allies had supposed but they were also moving in a more extended arc than had been expected . |
| 22 | So the spring flowers which bloom at the same time each year , and the swifts and swallows which return so precisely to their nest sites , are clearly responding to a more dependable guide . |
| 23 | It is not a fine enough tree to recommend for a star position , but good in a hedge or to bulk up planting in a relatively wild corner of the garden . |
| 24 | But Walker , who is contender for Great Britain 's Olympic team , was clearly hoping for a much better time on what amounted to a solo run . |
| 25 | Apart from using secondary material from the area , the investigator is also working at a more specific level in two or three societies contrasted with the western developed industrial world : on the one hand , the Soviet Union and the East European socialist world and on the other , the Muslim world . |
| 26 | As a result of more able children taking up integrated placements or moving into school , the Beacon was now catering for a very small number of multiply disabled children , who were highly segregated as a result . |
| 27 | Clearly , the Dart Valley Railway is now operating as a very large business far removed from the general notions of the line 's founding fathers and the spirit of steam railway preservation . |
| 28 | Suicide is carried out according to a culturally standardized formula : after two weeks of sulking , one finally withdraws into the deep forest away from all human habitation , and hangs oneself from a tree . |
| 29 | ( Jim is now looking for a completely new team , applications to London West ) |
| 30 | And in fact certain parts of the community are even now shifting toward a more standard American English . |