Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 2 | The list , however , is hardly impressive and , as in East Anglia , it looks as though Gloucester was acquiring the service of individuals rather than building up a coherent connection — although , in the absence of receivers ' accounts for the duke 's Welsh lordships , this can only be inference . |
| 3 | Use the open item method and show all unpaid invoices individually on your statement rather than bringing forward a single unpaid and undetailed balance from last month . |
| 4 | The company says that it intends to support the FDDI , Fibre Channel Standard and Parallel Channel Attachment standards but this will be for connecting the SP1 to file servers and hosts rather than speeding up the local network within the chassis . |
| 5 | This is important because walking uphill requires more energy than walking along a level surface . |
| 6 | He loves nothing more than slaving over a hot work bench to extract the last 0.5bhp needed to win his rider a world title , but as Yamaha 's GP technical co-ordinator last year he did n't get that chance . |
| 7 | Rather than cutting out a whole range of foods , concentrate on the foods that are known to be problematic in eczema : milk , eggs , beef , chicken , food additives , oranges , lemons and other citrus fruits . |
| 8 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 9 | Falling off a tall building is , after all , much more dangerous than falling off a low wall . |
| 10 | Knill said that he was satisfied with NERC 's allocation from the Science Vote for 1992–3 ( see above ) , which although showing only a small percentage rise will allow the council to set up two new community projects : LOIS ( the Land-Ocean Interaction Study ) and Bridge ( the HEI-led British Mid-Atlantic Ridge project ) . |
| 11 | We need members need to get a grip on what is happening and my wife suggests this , that the panel erm rather than setting up a new panel , look at the whole issue of school meals , this and other issues . |
| 12 | It was obvious now to the World that America 's involvement had driven Kennedy into supporting a corrupt , totalitarian government because the US felt that stopping Communism was more important than setting up a democratic government in South Vietnam . |
| 13 | True , in the judgment itself it might appear that the court was making a pontifical statement of existing principle rather than laying down a new rule , for they regarded their own proposition as having been anticipated by Holt . |
| 14 | than working out the other one . |
| 15 | From the off he had me convinced that by helping him I was doing no more than carving out a new life for myself as a better citizen , a better human being . |
| 16 | as if explaining away the downright lies and beautiful evasions of his Westerns , this is the one ( echoing Fort Apache , 1948 ) that concludes with the idea that if the legend is better than the truth then you should ‘ print the legend ’ . |
| 17 | A policeman held out his arms as if heading off a loose horse . |
| 18 | Her hand lifted and touched the medallion at her breast , as if warding off an evil spirit . |
| 19 | As they hopped out of Armstrong , Fenella leaned in through the meter window as if paying off a real cab . |
| 20 | If carrying out an independent valuation it is important to interview both ( or more ) parties . |
| 21 | Sun Microsystems is apparently considering taking back every nasty thing it ever said about X terminals and entering the business . |
| 22 | During a visit to Darlington Memorial Hospital , where she visited the children 's ward , Ms Harman said the Government was starving the NHS of resources while building up the private sector . |
| 23 | These mothers had built a cocoon around themselves and their handicapped child which , while keeping away the hurtful comments , wrapped them in with their pain . |
| 24 | That , too , she managed to turn into a joke , while keeping back the unwelcome sighting of Robert . |
| 25 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 26 | Those shining metals are as the veritable trail of the serpent ; they follow inevitably in the wake of civilisations , and give rise to crowded and smoky manufacturing towns , while spreading abroad an unrestful desire for travel with all its concomitant worries and brain wear . |
| 27 | It was admirably researched , hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones . |
| 28 | Perhaps a graphic parallel would be to imagine that a country existed in the middle of Europe which was at one and the same time Catholic , Protestant , Jewish and Islamic , while sharing equally the cultural and economic influence of the USA , USSR , and China ! |
| 29 | ‘ Not at you , ’ said Luke soothingly , while saddling up a black mare with a white star for her . |
| 30 | I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought . |