Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if Mr Lang decided on a form of franchising rather than the formation of privatised companies , that would be seen as privatisation by the back door . |
| 2 | From that point onward the story is a bonus but overall you read for the quality of language and the quality of seeing rather than the material . |
| 3 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 4 | It 's only a matter of hanging on until the Jacobites are out of the way . ’ |
| 5 | The gossip was that the farmer who owned the land was merely hanging on till the price came up to his requirements , then some builder would carve out of the hillside a super executive-type estate , with views for fifteen miles and mortgages for fifty years . |
| 6 | Now , ’ he said , and lifted his sword again , spurring suddenly as the trumpet blared , followed by those on either flank . |
| 7 | It is binding only if the conditions of the normal justification thesis are substantially met independently of the consent . |
| 8 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 9 | Barbara Stanwyck spent her whole career suffering and dying just because the dreamership could n't stand to see a woman come first . ’ |
| 10 | This conversation , occurring shortly after the conversation with Patrick recorded above , was taking place at Ludens 's flat , where a scrappy supper had been laid out by Ludens after Gildas 's telephone call . |
| 11 | But this time there 'd been an unfortunate accident — the worker had been distracted and had applied the blow torch to a pipe opening just as the varnish was starting to flow . |
| 12 | Far from dying away as the century progressed , this anti-Darwinian and anti-adaptationist view of evolution became more powerful . |
| 13 | I heard them laughing still as the car pulled off down the lane . |
| 14 | But ‘ Winters ’ hauled England up a second-half mountain , dragging his pack into overdrive and tackling non-stop as the Boks came out of a half-time huddle screeching defiance and ready to build on a 16–11 lead . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Ken was returning home when the crash happened . |
| 16 | Add to this the recent announcements by Kodak and Xerox that they have adopted Adobe PostScript as a future imaging model and you begin to see a whole new world opening up where the PC is , at last , able to hold its head up in the Macintosh dominated publishing market . |
| 17 | His sensory feedback had not informed him that this was happening even though the tension needed to throw his head back had been tremendous . |
| 18 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 19 | There 's no chance of this occurring here as the Doctors continue on their premeditated way to becoming this generation 's Wolfe Tones ( dreary Irish folk re-pub-licans from the '70s ) . |
| 20 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
| 21 | Although the spectral index at phase 0.7 , close to the maximum , is about -2.0 between 606MHz and 1,660MHz and typical of most pulsars , at 408MHz the flux density is actually less than that at 606MHz and is lower than the extrapolated spectrum by a factor of about 4 ( Table 1 ) , indicating that strong absorption or scattering is occurring even when the companion is on the far side of the pulsar . |
| 22 | They spent some time driving around before the woman persuaded the kidnapper to let her take the child into a shop to get some baby food . |
| 23 | American health spending is exploding primarily because the government subsidises it . |
| 24 | And now they were climbing again as the building grumbled and shook . |
| 25 | Hotels subsidiary Hilton International is only trading satisfactorily while the property business is recovering . |
| 26 | He should not be named , but he begged me to tell the outside world of the appalling situation where the wounded are dying unnecessarily because the UN are refusing to transport the wounded out of the city . ’ |
| 27 | The hands applying the leaves to her skin were still now , resting just where the swell of her breasts showed above the low neckline of her blouse . |
| 28 | And the prospect of the world 's leaders prattling away while the Earth burns around them is a pretty gloomy one . |
| 29 | But worse still , if the pilot is able to pick up the dropped wing after the initial swing , because of the acceleration the controls suddenly become effective , and this often results in the other wing touching just as the aircraft becomes airborne . |
| 30 | At high deposition , nitrate is found leaching away because the soil processes and capacity of plants to take up nitrogen are exceeded . |