Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mixtures are substances consisting of two or more pure substances . |
| 2 | One device introduced to create harmonic stress was that of writing in two or more different keys or modes at the same time — to write bitonal and polytonal music . |
| 3 | It is simply due to the fact that these little hotels have remained faithful to habits dating from 1840 or so . |
| 4 | COE , Sebastian Newbold : ‘ Listening to recorded or preferably live jazz , theatre , reading . ’ |
| 5 | The work which our consulting engineers have done in conjunction with engineers from York City Council , show in very broad terms , that the existing radial routes within the Greater York area , were all in the period around about nineteen ninety one , all operating at more or less , design capacity . |
| 6 | We will convert Invalid Care Allowance into a Carer 's Benefit , increasing its value by an immediate 15% , indexing its future level to earnings and altering the entitlement rules to enable carers to combine caring with part-time or even full-time jobs and to ensure that people will still be eligible even if the caring starts after the carer reaches pensionable age . |
| 7 | Sixteen or 17 is the most common age for men losing their virginity , with some 18% waiting until 20 or later . |
| 8 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 9 | moving towards CDL or even CDL as the teacher learns to handle the system and the unit . |
| 10 | If the transferred employee insists on moving into bigger or more ‘ up market ’ accommodation , the excess mortgage allowance is based on the price of housing comparable with that owned in the old area . |
| 11 | We 'll be flying to Nice or somewhere like that . |
| 12 | In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects . |
| 13 | Usually , you can rely on the butis meeting or meditating until nine or so . |
| 14 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |
| 15 | Each cardholder has a set limit , running to hundreds or even thousands of pounds that can be borrowed at any one time . |
| 16 | He makes a point of acquiring a substantial area of grounds , not just the lawns immediately around the house , but the walled gardens and shrubberies beyond , running to twenty or even fifty acres . |
| 17 | Most of the above theories suggest that leadership style is a question of choosing between two or more mutually exclusive leadership alternatives eg either democratic or authoritarian . |
| 18 | They are ideal for reaching into restricted or less accessible areas such as the corners of rooms , equipment pockets and channels . |
| 19 | Currently a member of the Science-Based Archaeology Committee of the Science and Engineering Research soil protection policy for Scotland , and an advisory group to Historic Scotland dealing with medieval or later rural settlement patterns . |
| 20 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |