Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Physical exercise is becoming known as a valuable tool in treating depression , and if you find that hard to believe just try forcing yourself into a vigorous half hour 's sport , jogging or even just a brisk walk next time you feel low , and note the lift in your mood afterwards .
2 This town alongside a hugh lake where fishing , sailing , windsurfing , swimming and just about every other aquatic sport you can think of gets waterspace .
3 Now we 've got very much a personal perspective and we see things through our own eyes so somebody may see somebody behaving and regard that as an assertive behaviour , somebody else may actually see that as aggressive it 's very much a personal view of actually where we see the people lying and also indeed the people who prefer to deal with them .
4 However , in a more recent study Nyman and Silberston cast some doubt on the growth of management control , reporting that as high a figure as 56.25 of the top 250 companies in the UK were still controlled by shareholders , and concluding that ‘ the extent of managerial control is more limited than has been thought and may not have an inexorable tendency to increase .
5 It goes without saying that almost invariably the instances of animal behaviour that we find ourselves discussing involve adult creatures .
6 If you have tried Bolo 's Adventures part 1 and you are thinking that just maybe the author has run out of difficult problems to set for you , well think again .
7 Now , he wrote , seeing that during the ‘ critical years of adolescence ’ not more than one out of every three elementary school-leavers received any kind of educational care , there ‘ is reason for thinking that once more the national minimum should be raised ’ .
8 He smiled across at her , seeming to guess what she was thinking and clearly not the least put out .
9 Now you are stronger , wiser and finer in every way — more concerned with doing than dreaming and no longer a people-pleaser .
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