Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an expanding market of course and potential sponsors are constantly searching for an appropriate product on which they can lavish their money . |
| 2 | It is perhaps more exciting , however , to leave one 's discoveries to chance ; thee can be great satisfaction in wandering round an old country church and suddenly stumbling across an 18th or 19th-century Persian rug that no one has recognized before . |
| 3 | It can be interpreted more narrowly as merely calling for an incidental adjustment in the form of an annotation of the present birth register . |
| 4 | You would be better dealing with an ex-military spares specialist ( see the ads in LRO ) . |
| 5 | Jamila said nothing and Helen was eager to talk about Charlie , a subject on which she was obviously preparing for an advanced degree . |
| 6 | By just merely putting in an additional point , or turnout , here , er to er to make that say double track . |
| 7 | If the players really impress you with their heckling and barracking of the puppets ( and they 'll have to be witty as well as abusive ) , the puppets will eventually break off their performance , perhaps concluding with an important tip about a major location within the dungeons ( if the players did exceptionally well ) . |
| 8 | There is no grabbing , but merely hitting with an open mouth . |
| 9 | He 'd been merely indulging in an amusing diversion to pass the time . |
| 10 | Besides acting as an enormous magnet , the Earth 's magnetic field has another useful property . |
| 11 | In their amphibious war were all the hazards of land patrols and raids , with the added uncertainty of a seaborne approach all too easily foundering on an adverse change in the weather or some unexpected shoal . |
| 12 | Although some people may not realise it , if they are paying NI contributions they are almost certainly already contributing towards an additional pension : either to the State scheme , known as SERPS ; or to a contracted-out company pension scheme . |
| 13 | These cover all lifting tasks , and should n't be thought of as just applying in an industrial environment . |
| 14 | Immediately behind the Treib-haus a good footpath leads up to the left , soon passing into an asphalted track which enters the TreibSeelisberg vehicle road . |
| 15 | War-time mobilisation acts as a single institution which grades them all according to its distinct purposes , thus serving as an external check upon their nature quite separate from the whims of the observer and the contingencies of their previous situation in life . |
| 16 | Three UK members of parliament from the opposition Labour Party had visited Iraq the previous month in one of a number of other attempts by prominent Westerners , generally acting in an unofficial capacity , to persuade Iraq to release foreign nationals . |
| 17 | ‘ His jockey Steve Raymont was just looking after an inexperienced horse , but I suppose it 's water under the bridge now . ’ |
| 18 | Neither are the civic groupings planning to hang around much longer waiting for an inter-party meeting to establish common ground and communal tactics . |
| 19 | The Financial Times of Feb. 28 commented that the move was likely to add to inflation , already running at an annual rate in excess of 100 per cent . |
| 20 | We are not just talking about an environmental nuisance here — we 're talking about a real threat to life . |
| 21 | Clearly , this policing role , giving legal form to religious doctrine , and generally making for an ordered and ‘ tidy ’ society , was never successfully performed . |
| 22 | The use of eye and brow liners is now more refined and less obvious than it used to be , but is nevertheless emerging as an important element in even the most natural looks . |
| 23 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 24 | If we are already working from an out-of-date database ( because we have moved up the hierarchy ) it is very likely our vision of tomorrow 's world is much closer to today 's , while others in the organization , whose database is perhaps more up-to-date , may well be able to see beyond us . |
| 25 | Thus was an It still smelling of an earlier American decade 's cultural anarchy unattractive to him , and the new Oz appealing . |
| 26 | Monica Dunnell , Terry 's wife , is gradually recovering from an acute infection . |
| 27 | Among those covered by the files were Josef Mengele , a former superintendent of the Auschwitz concentration camp who had lived in Buenos Aires from 1959 until his death in 1979 [ see p. 33759 ] ; Josef Schwammberger , extradited in 1990 [ see p. 37899 ] ; and , reportedly , a self-styled " Slovakian National Socialist " , Stefan Polakovic , who was still writing for an Argentinian publication in 1992 . |
| 28 | THREE lifeboats , three tugs and an RAF Sea King helicopter were yesterday searching for an 18-year-old lifeboatman who fell overboard from a fishing boat . |
| 29 | But many young people leave home to work , and live , in another town or even country , far away from their schoolday friends and possibly living in an isolated situation . |
| 30 | Two opportunist tries by Saint-Andre , his third in the current championship , and Sella , his first this year , sealed the fate of the hapless Irish still searching for an elusive win after 11 consecutive games . |