Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [det] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we all doing this at home ? |
| 2 | You know it 's much better watching this from home than here ! |
| 3 | We 're only watching this with interest , we 're not directly involved ourselves . |
| 4 | However , in practice , because of the difficulties associated with assessing objective benefit already mentioned , the test is diluted to one of whether the transaction is capable of benefiting the company , thus adding little of substance to the subjective test . |
| 5 | That is one point of view ; another is that these future Nobel laureates may in fact earn their prizes by bringing more supercomputing to science , and thus moving more of science into cyberspace . |
| 6 | But he is already doing that in clause I 3 , so the principle is already there . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not just saying that for effect . |
| 8 | The author is not just saying this for sensation . |
| 9 | The boycott had begun on Sept. 6 , with monks in Yangon , Monyma and elsewhere joining those in Mandalay in refusing to accept alms from soldiers , or to perform religious services for them or their families . |
| 10 | Even if a daughter or son or husband were seriously ill , the answer to ‘ How are you all ? ’ would be ‘ Well , praise be to God , , thus giving all into God 's hands , and relying on his wisdom and mercy . |
| 11 | But Glyn 's not just doing this for fun — he want to raise money to help British olympic hopefulls . |
| 12 | Just putting this in pocket . |
| 13 | Mathcad is described as an easy-to-use ‘ handy scratch pad for quick number crunching ’ , which is positioned as an alternative to popular spreadsheets and which boasts a user base already nearing that of Borland 's Quattro Pro and Excel in the US . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're always saying that about Ricky , ’ said Daisy reasonably . |
| 15 | He was always saying that to folks . |
| 16 | By the 1920s and 1930s , not to mention the years after the Second World War , the women formed an ageing group of unmarried women and widows , once more having little in common with the men at work , who by now would be younger and probably married . |
| 17 | But other aspects of the reforms are still bothering some of Bassetlaw 's general practitioners . |
| 18 | Babur puts the beers on the table , carefully spilling some in Mark 's lap . |
| 19 | If we do n't we , we 're , we 're , we have no other way , and er , I think they 're very carefully doing that in P A G meetings . |
| 20 | Er because people in this age group have n't yet become managers and certainly not professional , we 're probably thinking more in terms of the Es and students and perhaps C twos C ones . |
| 21 | IBM Corp yesterday stepped up its pitch for OEM business , most strikingly offering an enhanced version of the 9371 microprocssor-based Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor , so that designers can build 370-compatibility into workstations via a co-processor.The company 's Entry Systems Technology — Personal Systems business unit is also offering some of IBM 's handwriting recognition products to third parties , including technology that recognises both script and block capitals ; and in addition to the currently available PenPoint version , ThinkWrite will be available this year in versions that run under OS/2 and Windows for Pen Computing . |
| 22 | Green shoots are now sprouting all along Acacia Avenue . |
| 23 | Aside from the many companies which have gone into liquidation , those which survive have taken the opportunity to improve their operating efficiency , often achieving this by reduction in staffing levels . |
| 24 | A relative novelty for this important property was that , for once , Sotheby 's did not give the consignor a guarantee , correctly judging that with material this good there was little reason to feel the sale would not do splendidly . |
| 25 | In that sense , the most important thing to say about this British election , and all the other electoral carnivals taking place in the developed world this year , is that they are frivolous evasions of the threat that is now menacing all of mankind . |
| 26 | The SD Ribbon is relatively insensitive and needs a good 50–100 Watts before it will blow properly , but even taking this into account , many amplifiers will sound harsh , grainy or in some other way ill at ease , especially if the volume is would up . |
| 27 | But he warned that , even taking this into account , the Welsh economy 's overall record was not outstanding . |
| 28 | I think that 's extremely true and extremely sound advice and I hope we can go away today bearing that in mind . |
| 29 | First , the practice of grazing calves from May until late July on permanent pasture , then moving these to hay or silage aftermath before returning them to the original grazing in late autumn . |
| 30 | Imagine scanning an image as a bitmap and then converting that to PostScript . |