Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If the child is behaving well or playing quietly the typical parental attitude is ‘ let sleeping dogs lie ’ . |
| 3 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Sort of looking out of your window and seeing just a blank concrete wall in front of you , day after day after day . |
| 8 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 9 | That 's torn it , thought Lydia , swallowing the smile , extinguishing the sexuality which she knew she had caused to flicker about her like burning brandy round the Christmas pudding , and adopting instead a workmanlike , country-walking air . |
| 10 | Around the turn of the century , there was much disenchantment with freemasonry because it was negating its original secrets of the occult and becoming more a social club and friendly society . |
| 11 | He is an expert in grading wools that come from all over the world and blending together the many different types for yarn production . |
| 12 | He was in favour of comprehensive schools , disliking selection once and for all for one sort of education or another at ‘ this frankly absurdly early age of 11 + ’ , and disliking also the social divisiveness of middle-class and working-class children going to different schools . |
| 13 | He may have been in his forties and driving either a grey , silver or light metallic-coloured car . |
| 14 | Often this sort of breathing is accompanied by raising the shoulders and pushing forward the front part of the chest ; it does not take in much air or provide the opportunity to have much control over it . |
| 15 | I doubt that she 'll ever go upstairs again , ’ he added , going to the window and pushing aside the long red drapes . |
| 16 | Perhaps through your letters page you will allow me this opportunity to urge all pencil manufacturers to consider making available their full range of leads ( coloured as well as graphite ) for holder use and saving annually a small forest of cedar wood and other trees used in producing the pleasing but expense and wasteful product . |
| 17 | Both therefore share the same confidence , which now seems rather questionable , but is typical of the structuralism of the sixties , in the possibility of defining and analyzing scientifically the essential features of literature . |
| 18 | So step two becomes , probably , reversing that vote and inserting instead a further amendment to the bill allowing for the social issue to be addressed , in line with the earlier decision of the House , after the treaty is ratified . |
| 19 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 20 | Who trains health professionals to give better antenatal and breastfeeding support as well as training and sustaining over a thousand of its own teachers and breastfeeding counsellors ? |
| 21 | Spent and trembling once the nasty little interlude was over , she then set about trying to tidy herself up . |
| 22 | His report noted the benefits of the machines for enhancing safety and costing just a tenth of ‘ live ’ training , saving millions of pounds . |
| 23 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 24 | And the other one which is er Mr and that er has details of various convictions with er picture of his as a rather younger man er , various offences going back to nineteen seventy five and occupying quite a long space but there . |
| 25 | The Frisian , Liudger , later bishop of Münster , was studying at York under Alcuin when civil disturbances at York , involving Frisians and presaging perhaps the eventual overthrow of Alhred , obliged Alcuin to send him back to Frisia . |
| 26 | and filing away a rough edge . |
| 27 | Then he 'd write long letters to Richard , telling precisely how long the train journey took and describing colourfully the other people with whom he shared the carriage . |
| 28 | Your old ships , my lord King , were already engaged with the ships of Earl Siward and getting much the best of it . |
| 29 | there may be an expectation that we should , we should be absorbing increase in and getting roughly the same amount of money , but . |
| 30 | Because of that , the cost of supervising and enforcing even the new goal-related safety regime will be higher . |