Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disobedience means a refusal , run-out or circling immediately in front of the obstacle . |
| 2 | If this happens , a pilot may mistake pitching or sinking rapidly in turbulence as an indication that the aircraft has stalled . |
| 3 | So does deliberately wetting the carpet or shouting angrily at mother , or refusing to go to bed . |
| 4 | Just because unsubstantiated rumours abound that Terry 's brother Ted occasionally supplies me with specialist literature from the Continent , it does not mean I am taking backhanders or looking favourably towards Terry when including him in the first team . |
| 5 | In this Europe there is a Benetton in every high street , Badoit and Czech Budweiser in every fridge , an Armani jacket in every wardrobe , Beaujolais Nouveau on every table , cable and satellite television channels in many languages in every living room , an Umberto Eco novel on every bookshelf , a Volvo in every garage , where CDs of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment lie casually next to Eurythmics , and where nipping across to Paris for the day is as natural as doing a day 's business in London . |
| 6 | All claims by creditors are provable as debts against the bankrupt whether they are present or future , certain or contingent , ascertained or sounding only in damages ( r 12.3 ) . |
| 7 | Focus is on SPACE for the warm-up , running in circles , lines or groups ; building STRENGTH ( perhaps by squeezing a ball or pulling away from mother ) ; developing SKILLS ( for example , throwing , chasing and balancing ) , then progressing to Bunny-hops , rolling and spinning . |
| 8 | It stipulated that neutrality should be guaranteed by banning them from accepting party political positions or speaking publicly on behalf of political parties . |
| 9 | The first speaks of the empty tomb or rising again after burial , of appearing to apostles , women disciples , and other witnesses . |
| 10 | Such schemes are essentially analytical in nature , but do not permit any synthesis or joining together of concepts that have been divided from one another . |
| 11 | The emission or absorption of one particle by another corresponds to the dividing or joining together of strings . |
| 12 | The sequence or bunching together of consonants , eg jumps , or of other language items . |
| 13 | Wanting to capture figures engaged in activities he made quick sketches of people reading , writing , cooking , drying themselves , or huddling close to fires . |
| 14 | DECADES make convenient units of time for historians , sociologists and pundits of every stripe , but the people who live and work through them do n't share the same enthusiasm for tying everything into bundles or stopping precisely at midnight on December 31 . |
| 15 | We faced trials by Earth , hunting for pythons deep in caverns of human skulls ; Water , too , and Air , driven by storm through mountainous seas in tattered pirate-ships , or dropping vertiginously into jungle clearings in light aircraft . |
| 16 | So next time you 're thinking of reaching for the tablets or slumping miserably into despair , try having a good laugh instead . |
| 17 | Some teachers and writers , perhaps carried away by behaviourist doctrine in the narrower sense , or thinking only in terms of sequential and very logically organized subject-matter , have over-emphasized what is involved and over-simplified the usefulness and effectiveness of " specifying objectives " . |
| 18 | A further major difference between many of the search firms is whether a consultant is really working under the umbrella of a big name in the executive search business or working truly as part of a team . |
| 19 | The other thing to avoid is swaying backward and forward so that you are alternately bellowing and whispering , fading out or disappearing entirely at intervals like a badly tuned radio station ! |
| 20 | Frey in Rights , Killing and Suffering ( 1983 ) paints a detailed picture of the possible downfall of whole economies the minutiae of which , although hinting strongly at overkill , are nonetheless plausible enough to be disturbing ( 197–203 ) . |
| 21 | These people have met new friends , gained in confidence and , most of all , self respect and would rather be doing some form of work rather than wasting away at home . |
| 22 | Some mosaics from each of the two main sequences have to be considered as approximately contemporary : these sequences , although developing partly in parallel , do seem to overlap , stylistically , at Chedworth . |
| 23 | In November 1990 the country 's foreign exchange reserves dropped perilously low , although reviving marginally in December to stand at around US$200 million . |
| 24 | Although scoring well in competition is very gratifying , improving personal performance is the goal which spurs Andrew Kuttner to higher achievements . |
| 25 | Councillors in Gateshead expressed alarm that limiting home to school travel concessions and discretionary grants would discourage potential students from continuing their education . |
| 26 | His reasoning recognises the over-riding principle of the mandate , and gives effect to the principle of self-determination rather than adhering strictly to treaty rules . |
| 27 | It listed such positive attributes as free ports , open tendering , the issue of stocks , and contracting and leasing systems , explaining that these were part of the class-neutral " commodity economy " , rather than belonging solely to capitalism . |
| 28 | Right now , that seemed almost more important than getting away from Julius . |
| 29 | First , the effect is pathway-specific ; that is , it occurs only in the cells to which the conditioning train is delivered , rather than spreading across to others — it is thus the result of the functioning of a network of specific connections rather than a wave of diffuse activity ; because there are several distinct input pathways to separate areas even within a single hippocampal slice , this specificity can be elegantly demonstrated . |
| 30 | It is almost always a fallacy to think that buying now on credit beats inflation . |