Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 2 | Duty Free performance in Asian markets has also been strong , with Singapore , Taiwan , Malaysia , the Philippines and India all achieving good growth this year . |
| 3 | During her third term Mrs Thatcher became the longest serving Prime Minister this century , and she has had , therefore , an unparalleled opportunity to change British society . |
| 4 | Much of the power and prestige it went on to gain derived from the fact that unlike other such organizations which have come and gone , it managed to keep its numbers extremely low , thus giving this claim some credibility . |
| 5 | This is mainly 'coz he 's always shouting strange stuff such as ‘ Grenade ’ and ‘ Dirty Rats ’ . |
| 6 | If we wish , we can establish one melody for the first verse and merely repeat it in the others , possibly varying some factor such as accompaniment , volume , colour , etc . |
| 7 | In princely strongholds such as Jaipur , Udaipur , Jodhpur and Bharatpur , politicians of both ruling and opposition parties have been busily courting aristocratic support this year . |
| 8 | This means that customers can use X25 to establish Telnet sessions , as well as concurrently routing other traffic such as IPX over X25 . |
| 9 | Most of these customers represent traditional nuclear business but their requirements are in decline , so AEA is actively developing new business such as technical services for the oil industry , safety consultancy for the transport industry , environmental research for the water industry and process engineering for the pharmaceutical industry . |