Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] its [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parent who shows strong disapproval , smacking the child or forcibly removing its hand from the offending area is sowing the first seeds of inhibition or sexual disorder . |
| 2 | British Coal have put Calverton Colliery into review , but the pit 's six hundred and forty miners must wait another twenty four hours to hear whether they intend closing the pit or just reducing its workforce . |
| 3 | Again , apart from alerting you to the likely development of a problem here , such inspections will help to ensure that even with a painful condition , the dog will have sufficient confidence to allow you to treat it without attempting to snap or simply pulling its head away repeatedly . |
| 4 | Of this poem and its cultural milieu , Patrick Wormald has written : ‘ Christianity had been successfully assimilated by a warrior nobility , a nobility which had no intention of abandoning its culture or seriously changing its way of life , but which was willing to throw its traditions , customs , tastes and loyalties into the articulation of the new faith . ’ |
| 5 | With a rattlesnake bite there is massive swelling around the bitten part with the flesh turning blue , green , purple or black , with livid blotches and blisters , and this gradually spreads throughout most of the body , affecting the heart and eventually stopping its action . |
| 6 | The phrases in this second category can be completely eliminated by re-phrasing the sentence and so improving its construction and sense . |
| 7 | Hirtle ( 1975 : 124 ) makes this successivity explicit when he diagrams his analysis of modal will in At one o'clock they will eat lunch : The role of will is described as that of " keeping the infinitive beyond the stretch of time containing the present of actual consciousness " and so situating its event in the future . |
| 8 | The information was also accurate ; Nationalist Spain , based on the agricultural regions of Spain and constantly expanding its territory faster than its population , was never short of food . |
| 9 | The empowered organisation , emphasises Kinsley Lord , is held together by forces different from those that bind the command organisation : ‘ If the conventional metaphor for the command organisation is a dinosaur , with the brain at the top issuing instructions to the ponderous body , then that for the empowered organisation might be a shoal of fish , moving rapidly and constantly adjusting its shape through signals that are instantly understood . ’ |
| 10 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 11 | Fernhart estimates it will shift around 48 TSMDesk units over the next year , generating around a third of its total income and hopefully boosting its turnover from last year 's £2.6m to over £3m in , 1992–3 . |
| 12 | This collaborative development project , involving most of the original researchers , has been producing training and other materials , trying them out in a few selected authorities , and also extending its dissemination networks in anticipation of the finished products . |
| 13 | This tactic of disarming a discourse by inverting it and tacitly denying its claim to tell the truth is implicitly linked to the feminine mythology that the novel elaborates thematically . |
| 14 | THE Labour leader , John Smith , accused the Government of cynically and ruthlessly betraying its election pledges on taxation . |
| 15 | The third , Vulcanian phase , also probably reflects this de-gassing process , with gas escaping from the magma below accumulating in the higher parts of the volcano , and then blasting its way to the surface . |
| 16 | The problem can be overcome in the case of any straight step function by evaluating the Fourier transform of the corresponding exponentially decaying step function and then finding its limit as the rate of decay goes to zero . |
| 17 | With forced patience he said : ‘ If a country borrows money , it has to repay it and sometimes tightening its belt is the only way . |
| 18 | But the word earendel is strange , not ordinary Old English , and evidently pre-dating its context ; Tolkien was caught by a difference of texture , prompting his own verses on ‘ The Voyage of Earendel ’ , in 1914 , and the reply to G. B. Smith 's question as to what they were about , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 19 | Morthen turned and ran for her horse , swinging across its bare back and violently twisting its head to face Tallis . |
| 20 | Yet , stirring at the back of her mind and insistently pushing its way to the fore , the ungovernable curiosity that had in the past led her into strange , sometimes dangerous but often exciting situations was threatening to override her common sense . |