Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without going into the minutiae of the terms of these and other benefits , it is important to appreciate that the former is means tested , so depending on the financial circumstances of your spouse , marriage could result in your benefit being stopped . |
| 2 | Suddenly there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 3 | Before she could answer there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 4 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 5 | They were having dinner the following day when there was a loud knocking on the front door . |
| 6 | Adam was thinking about this interesting word that used to be simply another term for pine but which originally meant a certain size of plank , from the Low German dele , when there came a loud knocking on the back door . |
| 7 | But as she was passing the Misses Cardings ' shop she heard a loud tapping on the upper part of the door ; then it was pulled open and Miss Belle Carding beckoned Agnes towards her , saying , ‘ Come in a minute , dear . |
| 8 | Because of the enormous stresses and strains constantly operating on the lower back , there are various different ways in which the sciatic nerve roots can get squeezed . |
| 9 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 10 | As the two mid-price discs are available separately , Elgarians may care to sample the first which includes the most ambitious of the Harmony Music ( in four parts , the first lasting nearly 12 minutes ) , the five Intermezzos and two descriptive slow pieces , then perhaps moving on the second . |
| 11 | She was enjoying the effect she was obviously having on the local population . |
| 12 | I was very shaken I was only sitting on the other side of the wall . |
| 13 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 14 | ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’ |
| 15 | California tends to be expensive , offering little saving on the real thing . |
| 16 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 17 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 18 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 19 | That 's right , cos they 're not paying on the other one then are they ? |
| 20 | This project involves planning for three methods of travel ; costing each one ; estimating the time for each one ; and finally deciding on the quickest and/or cheapest method of travel . |
| 21 | Cherbonnier & Sibuet ( 1972 ) consider S. pulvirus to be distinct from S. verrilli because the infradental papillae lie above the teeth and are contiguous , not lying on the same level as and separated by the ventral most tooth as in Lyman 's holotype , and the ventralmost tooth , i.e. the one next to the infradental papillae is block-like whereas in the holotype of S. verrilli it is tricuspid . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're not going on the big dipper . |
| 23 | The only thing that was different is that , that it 's not starting on the same |
| 24 | Some bees were already crawling on the early clover . |
| 25 | His new putter would take the world by storm because it was revolutionary and , as Brian Harley was already demonstrating on the pro tour , the most effective putter ever designed . |
| 26 | A similar estoppel could be raised by conduct : if the client adopts a practice of not insisting on the strict letter of its terms , its conduct may be held to create an estoppel in the same way as a statement of the effect of the terms . |
| 27 | This is of course because the party seeking protection is not dealing on the other party 's standard terms and conditions and the section can therefore have no application . |
| 28 | Following the earlier removal of Karoly Kiraly from the Senate for not voting on the new Constitution [ for which see p. 38586 ] , and the death of one other senator , this left seven seats vacant in the 119-seat Senate . |
| 29 | How could such predictable junk fare , however hard , be compared to the excitement of conquering Il Duce or Caveman , climbing the tremendous granite routes of Chair Ladder and Bosigran , embarking on any route at Carn Gowla , or even just soloing on the sensuous jug pulling of Sennen — all untamed and wonderfully sculptured cliffs , free from the canker of distracting metal . |
| 30 | But karate was already emerging on the European scene , thanks to the efforts of the French martial arts teacher , Henri Plee . |