Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 2 | Though the majority of youth continued outwardly to behave in a conformist manner , the growth in numerous big cities of deliberately non-conformist and sometimes actively oppositionist youth groups delighting in physical as well as verbal attacks on Hitler Youth brigades , wearing ‘ western ’ clothes , aping English mannerisms , and listening to jazz , showed that Nazism was losing ground among what had been its strongest area of support . |
| 3 | Before the elections of 1964 , 1966 , and 1970 , real personal disposable income was rising at more than double its normal rate of growth — so supporting the political business cycle thesis , but Alt suggests that these " short pre-election spurts may not do the government of the day all that much good , and there is no evidence that they do ( at least if short-term enough ) the economy any particular harm " . |
| 4 | They 're putting parts into used cars but there 's also been a slight upturn in the vehicle market and they 're benefitting from that as well |
| 5 | Rather than , rather than face moving into Benefit where it is very fraught at times and in a situa , and coping with that as well as not knowing what you doing is n't nice . |
| 6 | Empirical studies of older cultural institutions , drawing on historical as well as sociological procedures , include Collins ( 1928 ) , Beljame ( 1948 ) , Altick ( 1957 ) , Williams ( 1961 ) and Escarpit ( 1966 ) . |
| 7 | The clockwork life of Karen Rake is ticking by faster than ever before . |
| 8 | It 's an ambitious plan , but Bristol is responding to national as well as local needs . |
| 9 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 11 | But neither of these is fully regulated which means that teachers may perhaps find themselves working for less than fully professional organisations . |
| 12 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |