Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a significant movement of popular protest over sex purity marked a successful assault on the authority of male professionals , thereby drawing into the political arena groups hitherto denied access or without a voice . |
| 2 | He retained the Treasurership , but died within a few weeks of his retirement thereby bringing to a sudden end a lifetime 's service to deaf people . |
| 3 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 4 | It looks as if Mr Honecker , 77 and only slowly recovering from a gall-bladder operation , is incapable of grasping the situation in his country . |
| 5 | A queue had formed by the table holding the teacakes and a crowd gathered to watch the animal sacrifice slowly rotating on a giant spit . |
| 6 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 7 | A new means-tested superannuation scheme was announced to replace the existing guaranteed retirement income — thereby reneging upon a National Party election promise — the age of entitlement lifted progressively from 60 to 65 years . |
| 8 | The journals and correspondence of Verney Lovett Cameron , mostly relating to the unsuccessful attempt to relieve David Livingstone and the subsequent crossing of the African continent from east to west , were deposited by Major H. P. Lovett Cameron . |
| 9 | Besides contributing to a deeper comprehension of the function of to , this study has also led to a fuller understanding of the role of the category of person in the infinitive . |
| 10 | It remains constant up to a CO coverage of 0.05 monolayers before starting to fall , eventually returning to the clean surface value at a fractional coverage CO =0.35 . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 12 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 13 | The crowds , eventually numbering in the thousands , evolved into a spontaneous anti-war demonstration and headed across town , disrupting traffic while shouting ‘ No blood for oil ’ and finally rallying at the United Nations building . |
| 14 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 15 | Without going into the minutiae of the terms of these and other benefits , it is important to appreciate that the former is means tested , so depending on the financial circumstances of your spouse , marriage could result in your benefit being stopped . |
| 16 | Because of this I shall concentrate upon the debate between them and in particular on the abstract theoretical aspects , only touching upon the practical policy implications . |
| 17 | Establishments were obviously catering for a different market in the evening , and it can be assumed that customers were prepared to spend more time and to pay more for a different ‘ meal experience ’ . |
| 18 | Another way to get the flavour of Japan , but requiring a little more courage than merely eating in a local café , is to stay in a Japanese-style hotel . |
| 19 | It is not quite so confiding as the white-tufted , but is a charming bird nonetheless . |
| 20 | She stopped , suddenly drowning in a confused , illogical longing to confide in this man , and wishing with all her heart that she was n't so terrified of the consequences . |
| 21 | 17.64 At age 11 , the same requirements should apply , but with the addition of two short timed tasks , one perhaps consisting of a factual account or description and the other of a short imaginative piece of prose . |
| 22 | More '79 than '69 , no fake Hendrix-Stones-Byrds impressions , which seems somewhat daring in the current ultra-conservative climate . |
| 23 | More '79 than '69 , no fake Hendrix-Stones-Byrds impressions , which seems somewhat daring in the current ultra-conservative climate . |
| 24 | You are only catering for the mindless buffoons who find Simon Fanshawe a greater stimulus than Shakespeare . |
| 25 | However , an Asian community worker in North London told me ‘ West Indian children are only reacting to the insufferable cultural superiority that Asians feel . |
| 26 | The time it takes to receive local land charge search results varies greatly depending upon the particular local authority and can take between one and four weeks to obtain . |
| 27 | This effect can vitiate scientific observation , as when seventeenth century experimenters , familiar with the concepts of post-Galilean mechanics but not of electrostatic attraction and repulsion , regularly reported observing chaff falling as though by gravitation , or mechanically rebounding from the electrified bodies which attracted them . |
| 28 | Metaphorically , we can imagine theoretical astronomers breathing a sigh of relief and saying ‘ Oh , so the Sun is only shrinking by a tenth of a second of arc per century , not a full arc second after all . |
| 29 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |
| 30 | Suddenly there was a loud banging on the front door . |