Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would therefore seem to be a considerable need for a fundamental s review of our speed limit laws with a view to making them more closely reflect their presumed purpose , that of increasing e road safety , without unnecessarily interfering with personal freedom or unnecessarily wasting time . |
| 2 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 3 | It needs to be done subtly , for flashing a TA card or immediately mentioning membership of the police reserve , for example , incenses some regular police . |
| 4 | We will need to discover who is really being stopped from going ahead with legal action , or whether people are making choices between legal action or re-mortgaging their house , a holiday , a car or otherwise freeing money which is tied up . ’ |
| 5 | Gone was the flimsily dressed groupie with the ever-rolling joint , and in her place was a homemaker — a ‘ ballabosty ’ — in an elegant wig and demurely covering blouse and skirt , baking Chollah bread , making theme cakes , studying the Torah and , most amazing of all , performing the near-sacred duty of washing the dead . |
| 6 | What television , on the other hand , adds to the history of novelistic discourse , its definitive contribution , is a particular development of the interrupted and interruptable narrative , a narrative form built on the principle of interruption and therefore organizing expectation and attention in the short segments which will soften the disruption of being interrupted . |
| 7 | Smoking could affect gall bladder pathophysiology — for example , by stimulating mucin secretion and thus promoting cholesterol monohydrate nucleation — a critical step in gall stone formation . |
| 8 | Why has the government conducted fraud drives , instituted Restart and Actively Seeking Work ? |
| 9 | Well — that happened to me when my daughter joined the local Brownie Pack ; they were desperate for help and that ‘ couple of hours on a Friday ’ led to my becoming that pack 's Brown Owl , moving to a Guide Company that was in danger of closing and finally becoming District Commissioner administration four Brownie Packs , four Guide Companies and one Ranger Unit . |
| 10 | No , I thought she were giving them a pound and then taking change off them , she were getting change off them or summat were n't she . |
| 11 | Kalchu was carrying Lāla Bahādur on his back in a shawl and gently coaxing Hārkini along by the hand . |
| 12 | Smelling and seeing Danish pastries , and seeing other customers in the café eating and apparently enjoying food . |
| 13 | There were no houses in sight ; the sea on one side and steeply rising ground on the other had so far discouraged developers . |
| 14 | It is seldom possible to be simultaneously promoting group maintenance and also staying task centred . |
| 15 | It 's a marked contrast to Squashtec in Hetton-le-Hole , once a hugely successful club but now facing closure unless a buyer can be found . |
| 16 | Last week while Bobby Robson was surrounded by players and coaches , knee-deep in the paranoia that appears to afflict the majority of football managers , Charlton was fishing in Ayrshire , not seeking relief from cumulative tension but simply enjoying life . |
| 17 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 18 | Slowing property markets , especially in the east and north-east but now spreading west , are hurting property taxes and associated fees . |
| 19 | Caird 's achievement is to capture the sheer energy of the piece while also doing justice to its underlying darkness . |
| 20 | It includes aggregate estimates of government spending and revenue while also providing target figures for expenditures broken down into functional categories . |
| 21 | Within an hour hundreds of spadefoot males were bobbing like so many light balloons on the pool 's surface , each every second or less giving voice to a single loud ‘ Wah ! ’ . |
| 22 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 23 | The 1989 Social Security Act , which strengthened the tests of availability for work and actively seeking work , penalises women with domestic commitments yet further . |
| 24 | The Majority Report of the Royal Commission on Divorce used the existence of large numbers of working class common-law marriages as an argument in favour of relaxing the divorce law and thus permitting remarriage . |
| 25 | The increased salinity has an adverse impact on the dyke flora , threatening the habitat and also affecting stock grazing on the marshes . |
| 26 | WELLA 'S Lockwell Acid perm takes the stress out of the whole process by minimising the swelling of the hair cuticle and gently forming hair into long-lasting curls . |
| 27 | The circular and mutually reinforcing nature of the social production of facts about child abuse can be illustrated diagrammatically . |
| 28 | Experiment of speaking name aloud into machine and then finding face in image made by sound-waves . |
| 29 | Such ‘ balanced ’ budgeting is , however , insufficiently sophisticated for modern notions of regulating the economy by managing demand or , more recently still , maintaining close control over the public sector borrowing requirement and otherwise controlling spending . |
| 30 | playing golf this morning having a posh lunch and then playing golf this afternoon then having a buffet supper with prize giving . |