Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 2 | Heckling , or seeking temporarily to disrupt the speaker are insufficient to amount to such an offence . |
| 3 | Too often the choice for the British filmmaker has seemed to lie between critical approval combined with minimal box office or going all-out to emphasize the most garish , flamboyant and parochial aspects of popular cinema . |
| 4 | External finance or borrowing therefore becomes a pre-requisite for industrial and infrastructural investment in many LDCs . |
| 5 | It is not simply a question of becoming nicer or trying harder to live a good life . |
| 6 | Erm yes he , I believe it th th that stage was when er he said we 'll put y we 'll pus we 'll find some clothes for you mate erm , I I do recollect P C going I think to the foot of the double bed or near to the base of the double bed where he found a pair of erm jeans and I do remember him checking the pockets erm and then helping or trying like put the jeans on on the man that was lying on the ground still handcuffed . |
| 7 | Where lighting consistently exceeds the recommended level for a particular area certain tubes could be removed , but in the case of switch start light circuits , the starter must also be removed otherwise this will continue to use power . |
| 8 | It will be objected that love-making necessarily includes an irrational , a Dionysian , element that is obscured by what I am saying at the moment . |
| 9 | Certainly there is no scientific evidence that living nearby increases the risk of sickness . |
| 10 | It is traffic-free ( motorised baggage trolleys ) which means that getting there involves a delightful half-hour train journey . |
| 11 | All their Lordships need to say is that having carefully considered the arguments advanced , in the manner indicated by Griffiths L.J. , they can see no ground upon which Barnett J. would have been justified in taking the decision-making power out of the hands of the district judge , and substituting a decision of his own . |
| 12 | Whatever the outcome it seems absurd that having supposedly wiped the poll tax off the political agenda , ministers are still saddled with it , Darlington council is still saddled with imposing it and , worst of all , ordinary people are still saddled with paying it . |
| 13 | The Table also shows that cutting usually involves the wrist or forearm , which has resulted in wrist-cutting being treated as a distinct syndrome ( Rosenthal et al. 1972 ) . |
| 14 | But even those with mild and moderate disease were more likely to be employed if they did not reveal their cystic fibrosis , suggesting that doing so places the job seeker at a disadvantage . |
| 15 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 16 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 17 | It may seem strange that trying hard to slam a partner bodily into the ground is a good way of making friends , but it 's true . |
| 18 | To attempt to encapsulate ‘ pain' or ‘ red ’ , in the sense in which these are sensations or experiences , within a form of words , is no more illuminating than trying verbally to capture the stink of durian ( a tropical fruit with a foul odour yet hypnotic taste ) . |
| 19 | Aerobic means literally ‘ with oxygen ’ and walking aerobically causes the lungs to take in more air with less effort . |
| 20 | The Campaign Against Drinking and Driving also condemned the sentence , as did the back-bench Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens , who called it derisory . |
| 21 | They may well have sufficient intelligence and understanding fully to appreciate the treatment proposed and the consequences of their refusal to accept that treatment . |
| 22 | The family moved to London in 1897 , and Rosenberg was educated at the Baker Street Board School in Stepney , where his natural gift for both drawing and writing so impressed the headmaster that he allowed him to spend most of his time on them . |
| 23 | In 1989 , only 7.8% of pensioners who were mainly dependent on state pensions and living alone had a car . |
| 24 | Choosing to turn a blind eye to the unlikely drama that was unfolding a few feet in front of her , she merely expressed her gratitude for the imitation topaz bangle that she 'd just unwrapped , before turning on her heels and heading downstairs to catch the special seasonal episode of Crossroads . |
| 25 | Jodami and Rushing Wild jumped the last together , and Jodami found the vital extra gear to edge away . |
| 26 | The modern BaselChiasso motorway N2 bypasses Beckenried : drive east from the ferry and shortly passing under the motorway , follow the winding road up and onto the terrace where Emmetten stands ; the road continues to climb then dips to cross the Klon valley , and rising again passes a tunnel and descends to the neighbourhood of the mountain tarn of Seeli , south of Seelisberg , before ascending past the pilgrimage church of Maria Sonnenberg ( dated 1666 , with a baroque high altar ) and on to the village of Seelisberg . |
| 27 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 28 | She tried to tell herself it was her pride that had been damaged , but something raw and bleeding inside told a different story . |
| 29 | ‘ . But this is not invariably the case ; Robarchek , for example , sees a push for individual autonomy among the Semai and Overing similarly stresses the value of autonomy among the Piaroa . |
| 30 | A dispute with the local rector and manager led to a group of parents withdrawing their support from the school and coming together to form the Dalkey School Project . |