Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you put yourself in each prisoner 's place , assuming both to be motivated by rational self-interest and remembering that they can not talk to one another to make a pact , you will see that neither has any choice but to betray the other , thereby condemning both to heavy sentences . |
| 2 | The field of candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination , hitherto consisting only of former Massachusetts senator Paul E. Tsongas and former mayor of Irvine , California , Larry Agran , grew substantially in September . |
| 3 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 4 | There are many who will never forget that sad time but now the East Lindsey coastline has a happy atmosphere ; sometimes throbbing with the joy of summer seaside thrills but more constantly pulsating gently in natural tranquility , . |
| 5 | It is very thin and often has deep infoldings and outpouchings so binding together with neighbouring cells . |
| 6 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 7 | The Dodge mounted the kerb , headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam . |
| 8 | While the rest of Wales quakes in anticipation of next week 's invasion by the world champions , Price is merely looking forward to another tussle with the ultimate rugby enemy . |
| 9 | ‘ We were so looking forward to this trip and it 's been awful , ’ Rose whispered , sadly shaking her head . |
| 10 | However , looking back , and especially looking back after all the interlacements of Volumes Two and Three , one might well think that besides an image of life ‘ the Road ’ has crept up to being an image of Providence . |
| 11 | With world manufacturing prices growing at less than 1 per cent a year , international competition prevented much passing on of higher unit labour costs . |
| 12 | ‘ One minute we were apparently coasting home at 3-0 up , the next we were 4-3 down and wondering what had hit us . |
| 13 | And we 're only seeking up to one percent of development costs . |
| 14 | Erm so going back to this one , E to the minus nought point three . |
| 15 | Okay erm so going back to these we 've got day s say stay play pray . |
| 16 | And people may be wondering why they 're going up by so much , when after all , the S S A , and that is the figure that we 're restricted to set by the government , is only going up by three point three percent , and half of this is for care in the community money , so that , all that care in the community money remember , pound for pound in that it 's added to our budget , is knocked off the budget of Social Security , that is not , not any extra money spent on people . |
| 17 | By now it was all adding up to one conclusion . |
| 18 | To resist an arrest might also involve an obstruction and an assault , although it has been held that merely pulling away from another is not an assault for the purposes of the offence of assault with intent to resist an arrest . |
| 19 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 20 | As a result the public sees people apparently getting away with serious crimes . |
| 21 | It was therefore important to check that in embryonic wounds the epidermis was actively moving over the mesenchyme and not merely riding passively on mesenchymal contraction . |
| 22 | We all fell about laughing at the idea of a man with virtually no English suddenly coming out with such a word . |
| 23 | Do not use a social setting for suddenly coming out with all the reservations you may have or the frustrations you may feel at not having been consulted properly . |
| 24 | He is constantly coming up with bright ideas for making money . |
| 25 | Yeah , she 's only coming up for six weeks , mm , a monster . |
| 26 | Many animals , such as the puma , are solitary for most of the year , only coming together with other members of their species at mating time . |
| 27 | Last years kit had a funny , heavy sort of feel to it … and was nt very comfortable to wear … especially running around for 90 mins . |
| 28 | No-one likes a relationship to fail , and most of us strive to stay in one , only giving up with great sadness and when the good in whatever we have shared is finally outweighed by the bad . |
| 29 | ‘ At the moment I 'm only doing up to eight or nine miles a day . |
| 30 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |