Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara 's best years , Slater continued , had been just after leaving school . |
| 2 | As these sites are used up housebuilders have looked further afield to the small towns and villages of southern England which are now within commuting reach of London and the motorway-induced development radiating from it . |
| 3 | Probabilities being what they are , you are most likely to be right in assessing frame size if you assume that you are medium-framed . |
| 4 | Now while it may be difficult to gainsay the claim that these are the things on which it would be most worth spending time if there was ever no further need to struggle for the basics of human survival and comfort , life seems to be trivialised if culture and personal relations are held up as the be all and end all of what really matters . |
| 5 | But Crosby wo n't see them in reserve team action tonight because he 's set to be away on scouting business . |
| 6 | I 'm not commenting still not commenting on local issues , but I mean I quite see that acceptable to Mid Sussex and I 'm not doubting the recommendation but erm we 've actually sixty three thousand right sixty three thousand square metres and the other councils took the attitude that we would be nowhere near achieving structure plan and I find myself absolutely clearly what happened in other comebacks they were only going to produce three , two thirds or three quarters of your |
| 7 | They are emphatically against making divorce more difficult to obtain and unsympathetic to the idea that society should do more to protect marriage . |
| 8 | Although a fair breeze was picking up from the south-east , the harbour was aquarium calm , and the poignancy of this departure from a fairytale kingdom in our pirate prahu was marred , alas , by making so little headway that an hour and a half after cast-off we were still within spitting distance of the dock . |
| 9 | The method relied heavily on prior survey , which was supposed to reveal the directions which the plan should take , the plan being essentially of allocating land ( zoning ) , establishing patterns of communication , ensuring open space provision and giving coherence to community grouping . |
| 10 | ‘ But at NT developer 's conferences we 're told that Posix is only for winning Government bids , and we should n't use it ’ . |
| 11 | It is only by locating repeal feminism in the broader history of moral environmentalism that we can begin to understand the more obvious class and gender contradictions which surfaced in the politics of the social purity movements in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 12 | It is easy enough to measure the volumes of lava flows , but it is only by constructing isopach maps that the volume of pyroclastic material erupted can be estimated , and this is particularly important in volcanoes at destructive plate margins , where the mass of magma represented by pyroclastic rocks sometimes far outweighs that represented by lavas . |
| 13 | It is only by setting woman apart as Other , by resisting intimacy with her , by treating her with contempt and aggression , that men assert their own independent and fragile masculinity . |
| 14 | It is only by alleviating frustration immediately , or even before it becomes experienced , Robarchek argues , that the Semai are able to be so non-violent . |
| 15 | It is only by teaching respect for one another that different races can live peacefully together . |
| 16 | It is only by making property sacred , guarded by the fiery sword of divine justice that it can be safe from the dangers to which it is everywhere and always exposed . |
| 17 | This is so despite falling tax rates in many industrialised countries and bank secrecy legislation designed to curtail their attractions . |
| 18 | ‘ Eating bonefish is just like sucking fish-juice off a mouthful of tin-tacks . ’ |
| 19 | You can learn so much from simply watching their actions and reactions that it is always worth sacrificing fishing time to spend an hour or so studying their behaviour . |
| 20 | It is always worth watching Eta Carinæ ; its true nature is uncertain , but there is no reason why it should not flare up again at any time . |
| 21 | Yet we all know , even if we submit to this approach as a temporary — and perhaps very fruitful — measure , that there is more to using language , and communicating successfully with other people , than being able to produce correct sentences . |
| 22 | Sydney shut-out : Martin Bayfield got the better of Wallaby John Eales this time , but discovered that there is more to winning line-out ball than being the tallest man on the park as Australia waltzed away 40–15 . |
| 23 | There 's more to portraying sadness and torment than staring into space like a hypnotised horse |
| 24 | It is probably worth taking advice from a specialist competitions house when organising your first big competition . |
| 25 | It is also worth remembering Chardonnay is a major ingredient in Champagne — for instance , Sainsbury 's Non-vintage Champagne , £ll.29 is 70 per cent Chardonnay , and Sainsbury 's Vintage Champagne , £13.45 is 100 per cent . |
| 26 | Morland 's board is also in fighting mood . |
| 27 | It 's also worth reading Pasture Management for Horses and Ponies , by Gillian McCarthy , published by Blackwell Scientific Publications . |
| 28 | It is often worth contacting Compliance , Independence and Ethics Unit in London office to check if a Corporate Finance Engagement Letter has been obtained previously from the client . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is often worth transferring PC data into the Macintosh simply to gain access to these facilities . |
| 30 | In autumn , it is well worth taking tram forty-four through the forest to see the African masks at the Musée d'Afrique Centrale , another of Leopold 's pet projects . |