Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 2 | Bill to regulate chandelier bidding closer to becoming law |
| 3 | As well as standard black , blue or red leads , they do fluorescent orange and mint green ( no-one 's going to walk off with those by accident ) , a beautiful translucent pink lead with the copper shielding visible underneath and , funkiest of all , red/green and black/red cotton-wound cables , looking rather like climbing rope or the lead on your Gran 's old toaster . |
| 4 | Gen Nwachukwu rejected criticism that Nigeria was acting prematurely in establishing contact with South Africa before the white minority regime had ended . |
| 5 | The corridor was empty of any enemy figures , but more ominously it was now filling rapidly with swirling smoke . |
| 6 | By contrast , a private citizen has no legal right which would give standing to seek to prevent a post office union ( a private body ) from acting illegally by boycotting mail to a foreign country . |
| 7 | In a number of decided cases a landlord has been held to be acting reasonably in refusing consent in these circumstances : |
| 8 | Recent surveys have drawn attention to the importance of talking and listening both in obtaining employment and in performing well in it . |
| 9 | By contributing little , listening impassively without showing response or encouragement to the speaker to continue . |
| 10 | This requires all new furnaces other than domestic boilers with a rating less than 55,000 Btu/hr to be , as far as practicable , capable of operating continuously without emitting smoke when burning fuel of a type for which the furnace was designed . |
| 11 | In turn , the UN Security Council is acting unlawfully in adopting Resolution 731 , which applies sanctions to Libya , since the UN Charter ( article 36 , paragraph 2 ) states that : ‘ The Security Council should take into consideration any procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already been adopted by the parties . ’ |
| 12 | She was looking forward to eating chocolate . |
| 13 | But by the beginning of May Eliot was safely ensconced : he had a typewriter , desk , table and chair and was looking forward to starting work again . |
| 14 | Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’ |
| 15 | According to X/Open , it is looking forward to re-negotiating membership terms with Novell — and more to the point membership fees . |
| 16 | His defeat of four rivals in the Ayr race represented some consolation for his Cheltenham misfortune — but owner Eric Scarth is already looking forward to dethroning Champion Hurdler Royal Gait next March . |
| 17 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 18 | 62-year-old Margaret Wilkinson from Lower Stratton was looking forward to spending Christmas with family and friends . |
| 19 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 20 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 21 | His press cuttings testify to this with a vivid , blood-splattered description of a white-gowned Drake brandishing a huge saw , placing the blade between the victim 's legs and sawing upwards amid spurting blood and gore . |
| 22 | If we wish to progress up the football ladder , I can only see us doing so by winning promotion . |
| 23 | The UltraNet RS/6000 Network Processor is claimed to deliver effective application performance in excess of four times that of a standard block multiplexer mainframe channel , and an order of magnitude faster than other RS/6000 network connections such as Ethernet , Token Ring and FDDI — in other words it runs at 1Gbps or over 100Mbytes per second , coming close to matching network bandwidth with computer bandwidth . |
| 24 | She is now intent on doubling the membership to give Somerville an annual income of £1500 and four prizes of £300 ( and some lesser amounts ) to fortunate Somervillian members — with a subscription of only £15 p.a. you can , like them and Tom Lehrer , be ‘ doing well by doing good ’ . |
| 25 | A variation known as Mark 3A was produced for locomotive haulage , differing only in having side buffers available when necessary , and centre buck-eye couplers instead of the special couplers on the 125 sets , and electric wiring to suit the different needs of locomotive haulage . |
| 26 | The government , it seems , is counting heavily on getting money from tax dodgers . |
| 27 | Uniforum and the small Unix Reseller Show , held last week in Dallas to credible reviews , have been talking lately about making Unix Reseller part of Uniforum , an altogether sensible idea . |
| 28 | That 's right because you you 've an ability there to locate housing close to existing employment as well as erm leisure facilities and retail facilities and that would , in my view would follow on advice in P P G twelve and P , draft P P G thirteen . |
| 29 | In terms of the principles involved , we could be talking here about playing chess or reading a page of text . |