Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other girls had reached the top of the bank now , and they saw her long legs fairly leaping down the slope after the speeding pram . |
| 2 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 3 | Plenty of gulls still kicking up a shindy . |
| 4 | Usually rather subdued piping or twittering calls , flocks often keeping up a conversational twitter . |
| 5 | Other European countries whose eventual membership is considered possible are Norway and Iceland ( two Efta countries currently displaying absolutely no enthusiasm for the EEC ) , the Baltic states , the former Yugoslav republics , and the other Balkan countries . |
| 6 | Is it connected with the variety of radical movements actually making up the counterculture ? |
| 7 | I can remember several years ago bringing in a seventeen year old baby sitter to sit with Susannah , and I heard thirty bob . |
| 8 | The Plan can not cover you during the first 24 months for any existing medical condition you may be suffering from or have received treatment for in the two years prior taking out the Plan . |
| 9 | Before she could follow his movements he was by the coffee-table , the long fingers carefully flattening out the creased pieces of paper she had derisively hurled there . |
| 10 | This has two properties together making up a property complex ; each property is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence . |
| 11 | The alternative version has the same two properties together making up a property complex that is applied to the immediately adjacent subject of the sentence ; moreover in both cases the complex as a whole is assigned syntactically to the subject E ; the sole difference is in the matter of which property is taken as " senior " to the other within the bounds of the complex , as in ( 63 ) , and in such a case this will produce an infinitesimal semantic difference : ( 63 ) However this sort of syntactic trading is only possible where the language contains suitable lexical items ; it must have an adverb and verb with the appropriate meanings ; thus , in the absence of an adverb equivalent to after a change and a verb meaning to be orange , for instance , English can not offer such an alternative for ( 64 ) : ( 64 ) in spring , their skin turns orange 5.8 The range of verbs which can occur with postverbal adjectives is in fact quite wide . |
| 12 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 13 | Communication between firms is unnecessary to achieve the market equilibrium , since this is done by the firms independently thinking through the logic of the situation . |
| 14 | The user has also to construct a path through the relations thus setting up the linkages required at run time . |
| 15 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |
| 16 | With their improved handling and reduced hazards they are , however , widely used in small operations particularly catering where the small quantities used are generally more economic . |
| 17 | Actually , plants are not the only creatures that can be better judges of character than many humans , for stories abound of dogs , horses and other creatures instinctively picking up the unpleasant and threatening vibrations from some human and responding with a personally directed snarl or with a well-aimed kick or bite . |
| 18 | Mothers were encouraged to give solids at a very early age and bottle feeding was predominant , with mothers incorrectly making up the feeds . |
| 19 | They are used for the final stages when working down a tilth and levelling the surface once the large clods and turf have been broken . |
| 20 | Expert systems coupled with NDT can greatly reduce the complexity associated with the interpretation of results thus speeding up the whole process and improving accuracy and consistency . |
| 21 | As with the NDT , expert systems coupled with CM can greatly reduce the complexity associated with the interpretation of results thus speeding up the whole process and improving accuracy and consistency of ground based analysis . |
| 22 | Only rarely did they talk of their men willingly taking over the housework and servicing their breadwinner wives . |
| 23 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 24 | The first ones ran straight over to the corner of the roof , saw the drop and veered back , colliding with the others still pouring up the staircase . |
| 25 | Franchisees come from all sorts of backgrounds , with women increasingly taking up the challenge . |
| 26 | The recruits recruit others , colonies sometimes fighting over a resource , though individuals of this species usually give in to those of other more aggressive Trigona species . |
| 27 | He touched her face gently , his thumb brushing her cheek , his fingers lightly smoothing back the straying tendrils of her hair . |