Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years , successive governments have promoted the advantages of private home ownership , most conspicuously by subsidising mortgage interest payments by tax relief . |
| 2 | The third term reforms to local government , the ‘ inner-city ’ policies , were much less about doing good for the poor and arresting decline and decay than about undermining Labour 's power bases . |
| 3 | If only , he thought sometimes , Blanche would not worry so much about wasting time and let the minutes trickle like sand through her fingers . |
| 4 | Some fare much better at retaining manufacturing jobs and creating service-sector jobs than others . |
| 5 | The defendant had some reason for wishing to weigh the boilers ; and he could do so only by obtaining permission from the plaintiff , which he did obtain by promising to return them in good condition . |
| 6 | I 'm wearing a black figure-hugging knee-length frock , which has been hand-embroidered all over with dangling jet beads ; sharp , dangling jet beads that make standing up imperative . |
| 7 | There is evidence that following the start of treatment the lesions of primary or secondary syphilis are free of active treponemes within 48 hours , although it would be a brave person who took this to mean that intercourse was safe so soon after starting treatment . |
| 8 | Abruptly , the sensations she 'd felt that night in St Lucia , when they 'd come so close to making love , engulfed her with such force that she felt weak at the knees . |
| 9 | But we ca n't get so close to freeing Nuadu and fail now . ’ |
| 10 | The draft PPG Note is a welcome step in that direction , but could go much further in giving guidance on the practical implementation of coastal policies . |
| 11 | They took off especially rapidly in manufacturing south Lancashire . |
| 12 | So far from quenching ardour , that night of uninhibited lovemaking in the Parc Hotel had set stronger currents running between them . |
| 13 | As many progressive ( but in reality reactionary ) politicians have recently been finding to their cost , greater freedom of opportunity , so far from furthering equality , has only stimulated emulation and the appetite for symbols of success . |
| 14 | Again local inspectors do not seem to do so well in engendering trust . |
| 15 | Instead they assist females in rearing young , working extremely hard at collecting insect food . |
| 16 | So instead of swallowing vitamin C tablets just |
| 17 | A glance at the map revealed that there was a short cut down to the Miletti villa , so instead of summoning Palottino he decided to walk . |
| 18 | So instead of specifying case frames ( or indeed semantic features ) for each individual word , Schank only needs to provide case frames for the primitives . |
| 19 | I had rooms in college that year , so instead of turning east along the High I carried on down Magpie Lane and round the corner into Merton Street , taking care over the cobbles , treacherous when wet . |
| 20 | Follow Station Road beyond tunnel , down main pedestrian street in Milngavie , turning right just after crossing river ( signpost ) down ramp , right on road then immediately left on signposted tarmac path . |
| 21 | It is therefore generally not worth spending time trying to research such purchasers . |
| 22 | Glancing at her watch , she wondered if she could slip away soon without giving offence to Edward and Helen . |
| 23 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 24 | Marist replied with a try and two penalties by Ian Vernon , who went desperately close to clinching victory in the last minute of the game when a penalty hit an upright . |
| 25 | We also felt the officials were sympathetic to our concerns and were keen to help us direct our pressure more effectively towards influencing planning authorities , public opinion and the Secretary of State . |
| 26 | She shows how heated controversies about the use of the speculum , which was seem by some medical men as an instrument of rape , about operations that ‘ unsexed ’ and ‘ castrated ’ women , and about the relationship between male doctors and their female patients can be explained more effectively by viewing gynaecology as a ‘ science of woman ’ . |
| 27 | We did it simply by foreseeing the situation and starting the rundown early enough by stopping recruitment . |
| 28 | Women were used to such things , they could bear it more easily without giving way . |
| 29 | At Brussels , where America 's secretary of state , Warren Christopher , was on May 6th in urgent talks with NATO allies , the focus shifted abruptly once more from keeping peace to something starker . |
| 30 | FORD has expanded the Mondeo range once again by adding turbo diesel and automatic transmission models . |