Example sentences of "[v-ing] [num] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Datir ( 1978 : 212 ) found that , in the state of Maharastra , over two-thirds of all admissions of convicts to prisons were of people serving one month or less ; and a third of admissions were for ticketless travel on the railway , usually through inability to pay fines . |
| 2 | 2 Do n't spend too much time correcting one individual or just saying " NO " . |
| 3 | In the wild , even modern breeds of hens form themselves into small social groups comprising one cockerel and perhaps four or five hens . |
| 4 | The Code envisages a minimal interference with a person 's liberty , perhaps lasting i minute or so . |
| 5 | Closing one eye and then the other reveals the same scene with the position of objects shifted slightly , particularly those nearby . |
| 6 | It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " . |
| 7 | This is not to imply that the mid-nineteenth-century ( male ) bourgeois ( or those who aspired to be like him ) was merely dishonest , preaching one morality while deliberately practising another , though patently the conscious hypocrite is more often to be found where the gap between official morality and the demands of human nature is unbridgeable , as in this period it often was . |
| 8 | There was n't much space along here , and he could no longer rely on people taking one look and then getting out of his way because there was nowhere for them to go . |
| 9 | On April 17 one of the bombs discovered , a radio bomb , exploded at the federal police headquarters in Wiesbaden , near Frankfurt , killing one officer and critically injuring another . |
| 10 | There had ensued a formidable civil war , with the barons backing one side and then the other , while the Angevins undermined Stephen 's kingship with carefully laid plans of their own . |
| 11 | I 'd rather take that approach , and what I would suggest is that , wherever possible , teachers should think about involving parents in the kinds of difficulties that the child is having in school , and thereby becomes a team effort rather than parents working one direction and perhaps teachers working in another . |