Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Coincidentally , we are now seeing coming out of Eastern Europe that same broad attitude being adopted , not only by the democratic socialists and social democratic parties which are emerging in the East , but also amongst the reform wings of the old Communist parties led by a new generation who realise the command economy Stalinist game is completely up . |
| 2 | Similarly both the Rathenau Advisory Group in the Netherlands and the Industrial Institute of Economic and Social Research in Stockholm , carried out simulations which indicated that slow introduction of microelectronic technology would have a worse effect on employment than keeping up with other countries . |
| 3 | He wondered , indeed , if some of the teachers were interested in anything other than getting through to three-thirty , filling up the time with something or other . |
| 4 | By definition , you can not do well all the time , you can only try to — your attitude is that you could be a hell of a lot worse off in life than getting out for 30 as opposed to 75 . |
| 5 | But when she 's at home , Sue Lawley loves nothing more than getting down to some old-fashioned housework |
| 6 | It recommends that developing countries seek " advance payments and relatively small royalties rather than holding out for higher royalties that may never materialise " . |
| 7 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 8 | ‘ Coming home after six hours or so , as you do with a domino birth , is actually more restful than staying in for 24 or 48 hours , ’ she says . |
| 9 | Dave Southwood took the aircraft for a fifteen minute first flight which was faultless other than running out of nose-down trim . |
| 10 | Its effect is clear-you get what you want , what you think is right , rather than falling in with other people 's views . |
| 11 | What better way to spend an evening or Sunday lunch than sitting down with congenial company and enjoying good food . |
| 12 | Gardeners are an inquisitive breed and when they 're on holiday , there 's nothing they enjoy more , than snooping around in other people 's gardens . |
| 13 | You imagined you 'd found a less arduous way of earning a living than trailing round from one audition to the next . |
| 14 | There was something of the Regency dandy in the way he trailed his cane and rotated his globular head , as if looking out for fellow beaux to salute . |
| 15 | Had she been seduced into conformity by the excellence of the natural history programmes and then , like other late converts he had known , sat captive to virtually every offering as if making up for lost time ? |
| 16 | I did n't want to try landing the ship itself , because coming in to accurate pin-point landing requires delicate navigation , which was impossible with the ship 's erratic ceptors . |
| 17 | The former , while fitting in with much of popular ideology , is contradicted by current sociological studies of men 's violence ; the latter is more consistent with the evidence of this research . |
| 18 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 19 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |
| 20 | It offers a greater choice of workers while linking in with other areas . |
| 21 | The TW68 is designed to have a maximum range of 1,000 miles while carrying up to 14 passengers . |
| 22 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 23 | The delegates added a clause saying : ‘ While watching out for Rightist deviations , we must guard mainly against Leftist deviations . ’ |
| 24 | Another casualty who bravely acted out that old maxim ‘ the show must go on ’ was ROSS — ex-postman and avid raver — from K-CLASS who after falling through a plate glass window whilst horsing about with some mates in a local Liverpool pub , gritted his teeth , 30 stitches notwithstanding , and gamely did his bit on Dance Energy less than 24 hours after being sewn up . |
| 25 | Whilst flying back from visiting relatives in Denmark on my very first trip abroad , the second worst nightmare happened . |
| 26 | That the nomination of Boys to the School shall be made fairly and without favouritism and that the Corporation shall not permit them to be influenced by political considerations , whether arising out of local or general politics . |
| 27 | Its purpose is best served if the person concerned can take up this attitude , be with it for as long as is required , and then let it go again when stepping back into ordinary life , then there is no risk of becoming over-identified with it . |
| 28 | You have to produce a return transatlantic ticket and your passport both when buying the airpass and when checking in for each flight . |
| 29 | Though the seats are typically German in their firmness , the suspension is slightly softer than expected so that the ride , even when pushing on over bad surfaces , is never anything other than smooth . |
| 30 | All endangered big game has been given a value so that poachers can be forced to pay compensation as well as serving up to six years in prison for killing the animals . |