Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is important because walking uphill requires more energy than walking along a level surface . |
| 5 | But there are some thing she ca n't change , like the way he shoves his hand into his pocket , his preference for classical music to Dire Straits , and looking at buildings rather than eyeing up the latest cat-walk creations |
| 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 | What does it involve other than sending out a few letters , keeping a record of what has been done , and putting some figures together at regular intervals ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 10 | Falling off a tall building is , after all , much more dangerous than falling off a low wall . |
| 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 | A policeman held out his arms as if heading off a loose horse . |
| 17 | Her hand lifted and touched the medallion at her breast , as if warding off an evil spirit . |
| 18 | As they hopped out of Armstrong , Fenella leaned in through the meter window as if paying off a real cab . |
| 19 | If carrying out an independent valuation it is important to interview both ( or more ) parties . |
| 20 | However , the adoption of this policy alone does not solve the problem of making optimal use of the volume , because filling up the highest part of the nave with habitable accommodation arranged on one or several storeys deprives the lower-level spinal space of the church of natural light . |
| 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 | That , too , she managed to turn into a joke , while keeping back the unwelcome sighting of Robert . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | All too typical , however , was Lord Keith 's remark in 1799 that he had given a lieutenant 's commission to ‘ the Duchess of Atholle 's friend Glen Geary … a heavy dog too ’ , while passing over a brighter but less well-connected midshipman . |
| 26 | And he manages to present what could be very dry stuff with the flair of a good detective writer , setting up expectations whose fulfilment contains an element of surprise , while saving up a few clinching strokes for the end . |
| 27 | It was admirably researched , hut it glossed over the important questions while pointing up the trivial ones . |
| 28 | ‘ Not at you , ’ said Luke soothingly , while saddling up a black mare with a white star for her . |
| 29 | I asked while cutting up a British Telecom van — rather niftily I thought . |
| 30 | As for affirmations , well , when slogging away to meet a deadline I 've found that repeating , ‘ You 're tougher than you think ’ while gulping down a large glass of gin works a treat . |