Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not you will be asked to pay for your course remains at the discretion of course organisers and managers , therefore , and I am unable to give any hard and fast guidance here , other than to say that they will have to be kept at a reasonable level to be affordable , particularly by those who have been unemployed or bringing up a family . |
| 2 | It 's easier than falling off a log . |
| 3 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 4 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 5 | No , I know what it is , it 's all our knitting machines sending their radio messages to one another and clogging up the air waves . |
| 6 | Someone once described this as sorting out the knots in the knitting and then taking pride in wearing the jumper . |
| 7 | William Bellows , who was taken by Edmund Gosse to meet Hardy in June 1927 , reported Florence as saying : ‘ My husband used to write in this when sketching out the plots of his novels . |
| 8 | The music was sure as a swing in high summer , to and fro , light as racing over a sunny lawn to the blessed shade under the trees . |
| 9 | This makes control easier when looking down the microscope or when operating a computer keyboard for image analysis . |
| 10 | Sticking your willy up strange holes had to be riskier than standing over a lavatory basin . |
| 11 | Falling off a tall building is , after all , much more dangerous than falling off a low wall . |
| 12 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |
| 13 | Kidnapping the whole cage was impossible and knocking out the Headmaster and all the teachers would be difficult . |
| 14 | He walked all over Lyne picking up blocks of red sandstone ashlar and pointing out the old grooves and cramp-holes . |
| 15 | This format is appropriate when sending out a Investment Overview in response to an enquiry from another member of the ABN . |
| 16 | Monet , Mobile Networks Integration Technology , is a new piece of software for interconnecting all kinds of wireless data networks , and intended to make make communicating from diverse mobile devices as easy as picking up the phone . |
| 17 | Finding accommodation and getting to it proved as easy as falling off a log ; there were free-phone backpacker ads in the airport , we rang one of them and they had a ( free ) minibus waiting right there , which took all of us including bike . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's as easy as falling off a log . ’ |
| 19 | No more being shy and going up the high one . |
| 20 | She wandered back to the dressing-table and stood fiddling and picking over every little object on it . |
| 21 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 22 | ‘ You know , ’ Ash was saying , breathing hard and looking down the stair-well as I opened the door . |
| 23 | Theda said , smiling a little and holding out a hand , insensibly warmed by the woman 's greeting . |
| 24 | ‘ The beautiful torment of denial , of postponing the inevitable and building up a sweet need that improves every second of surrender . |
| 25 | I gave in to that later on in the '80s , by trying to be more conventional and blending in a bit more , and actually I should n't have done that . ’ |
| 26 | Years ago , in a Sky at Night television programme , I referred to these three as making up the ‘ Summer Triangle ’ , and nowadays everyone seems to use the term , though it is completely unofficial and in any case does not apply to the southern hemisphere , where June is midwinter . |
| 27 | However , he should ask himself why it is that , when people are given access and are judged eligible for the benefits , the administration is so inadequate that paying out the genuine benefits breaks the system . |
| 28 | Luckily , the Devil cares not for checking visitors ' bus passes to see if they 're over-the-hill and struggling down the slope on their Zimmer frames . |
| 29 | Parrott , Merseyside 's sportsman of the year , ran into trouble in only his second visit to the table , cannoning off black and knocking down the red . |
| 30 | Carter mentions Walter de la Mare 's recourse to Christian allegory as being ‘ as good as putting up a No Trespassers sign ’ . |