Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch . |
| 2 | Whether you 're eating out or buying a take-away , heating frozen meals from the supermarket or knocking up a fresh pasta and salad in the apartment , quality and variety are excellent . |
| 3 | In order to account for women 's lack of autonomy it is not sufficient to think merely in terms of removing a veil , or stripping away the outer layers . |
| 4 | Establishing , operating or winding up a collective investment scheme , including acting as trustee of an authorised unit trust scheme . |
| 5 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 6 | It may be worth mentioning that some candidates achieve Grade " A " without mentioning any historian or writing down a single quotation . " |
| 7 | It could be a flatter of setting up a new plant , opening a new market , launching a new product or turning around a failing company that has been acquired . |
| 8 | It 's probably where the expression ‘ work like a dog ’ was born ; no wonder they shuffle under the shearing sheds and grab as much sleep as they can when they 're not clambering over sheep 's backs or kicking up the fine , red dust . |
| 9 | If the band spends a lot of money in the venue ( with a big stage extension , an early ‘ get-in ’ to the venue , playing very late , or running up an enormous catering bill ) , all of these costs are paid mainly by the artist . |
| 10 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 11 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 12 | The booklet points out that age is never a reason for giving up an activity or taking up a new one . |
| 13 | Is it worth insuring your computer or taking out a separate contract with a third-party maintenance company ? |
| 14 | If the child is behaving well or playing quietly the typical parental attitude is ‘ let sleeping dogs lie ’ . |
| 15 | This was no great problem for Mr Berge ; being cocky and confident comes naturally to him whether he is presiding over his other little empire , the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house , or standing over a gaping hole in credibility . |
| 16 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |
| 17 | When trading in or throwing away an old " fridge " try to make sure that it is not going to be just broken up without the CFC gas being properly collected first . |
| 18 | You do need to move the point cams during increasing or decreasing so the basic rule is ‘ never move the point cam nearest the carriage ’ . |
| 19 | I do n't remember him doing much digging in the garden but in my memory he is always mowing the lawn and fussing over a particular type of grass which evaded the blades and sprang back upright after the mower had passed over it . |
| 20 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 21 | The ward sister co-ordinates all these functions , ensuring the ward has adequate supplies and drawing together the particular team members required to help an individual patient . |
| 22 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 23 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 24 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |
| 25 | This chapter will be concluded by looking at the so called " rescue cases " and seeing how the various doctrines apply . |
| 26 | The kick is performed by starting from a natural stance and bringing up the right leg , bent and to the side . |
| 27 | This placed obstacles in the way of their meeting with any regularity , causing Davis resentment and bringing out the ugly side of his nature . |
| 28 | The pressures of war also diverted Great Power attention away from East Asia , leaving Japan a freer hand to extend her interests there and bringing about a permanent weakening in the ability of Western powers to influence affairs in the area . |
| 29 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 30 | Increasingly local Law Societies are either undertaking training or can be persuaded to do so , and bringing down an experienced personal injury practitioner or trainer from London may not seem too horrendous an idea if the local Law Society is funding and arranging it . |