Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had an American boyfriend whom she was cultivating like mad and apparently he was so stunned by the first sight of Rosie 's straight grey legs and black feet pointing to twenty past eight that he took several photos of them with his expensive Leica camera , exclaiming joyfully , ‘ Oh boy ! |
| 2 | Growth is occurring in remote and completely rural counties , as well as in counties that are partly urban or dominated by nearby metropolitan centres , but the south and west are increasing the fastest . |
| 3 | Leaping to left and right , |
| 4 | A set of mandatory elements are agreed by ASC much of the material consisting of collated and briefly interpreted statistics , available from the central administration . |
| 5 | The problem for Trotsky was thus very similar to the problem which bureaucracy poses for the liberal interventionist , or welfare , state : how can those with the responsibility for carrying out the functions of government be controlled — in this case by a political leadership consisting of dedicated and ideologically sound revolutionaries ? |
| 6 | Green shoots or otherwise , the effects of recession continue to bite and booksellers and publishers are looking for innovative and more profitable ways of doing business . |
| 7 | A combination of vulnerable classes or groups living in vulnerable and ecologically marginal areas in many cases causes a failure to create sufficient income for food to feed themselves . |
| 8 | Elsewhere national language maps are exceptionally complex , ranging from large and clearly educationally viable groups like Hausa or Luganda through progressively smaller units to situations where numbers speaking the mother tongue are very small or very scattered . |
| 9 | In almost every chapter and section I have found it convenient to say things about crime writing in general and sometimes the art of fiction in particular . |
| 10 | COE , Sebastian Newbold : ‘ Listening to recorded or preferably live jazz , theatre , reading . ’ |
| 11 | Artai was bowing to left and right now , the last time in his life he would ever be required to offer courtesy to others . |
| 12 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 13 | The behavioural view says we behave as we do ( for example not stealing , not hitting others , not spitting in dining rooms , not going about naked and so on ) because we have learned to behave this way . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This was as elementary as his lesson to Hoomey : from the side of the bath he put his foot on the back of Jazz 's head as he came to the side , and stepped in , taking Jazz 's head with him , forcing in abrupt and most accomplished somersault . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All that the King could do was to provide some sort of legal foundation of government for Englishmen going to unsettled and thinly populated areas , which he did by linking the legitimacy of their governments to the legitimacy of his government . |
| 18 | The old Soviet parliament was to be replaced by a two-chamber Supreme Soviet , and in due course a new Soviet Constitution would be presented for approval leading to presidential and perhaps more general multiparty elections the following year . |
| 19 | At -30°C up to 90% of their body water became ice , which formed mainly in intercellular spaces , resulting in high but apparently non-lethal concentrations of solutes within the cells . |
| 20 | Problems were encountered when personnel officials — generally lacking in senior and especially Board status — were being asked to advertise for , interview , help select and then appoint executives to positions considerably higher than those they held themselves . |
| 21 | Moreover you think , as does the justiciar himself , in terms of England , and like him you see no advantage in clinging to old and now artificial connections with territories on the mainland of France . |
| 22 | Tried moving to right but then too close to frame . |
| 23 | We 'll be flying to Nice or somewhere like that . |
| 24 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 25 | Surveys of top pay are coming in thick and fast . |
| 26 | I imagine that shortly after Bill and Ricky have arrived , the other guests will start coming in thick and fast . |
| 27 | Replies are coming in thick and fast to the invitations , and as yet there have been no refusals — the charm of McBride and his way with words will undoubtedly see that there will be a full quota on parade . |
| 28 | THE JOKES are still coming in thick and fast from young readers . |
| 29 | ENTRIES have been coming in thick and fast for the Northern Echo Schools Cricket Competition . |
| 30 | With that strength of support coming from far and near , the South Ronaldsay Parents Action Committee launched itself into the mammoth task it faced . |