Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , not all cases of vehicle taking are so serious : our whole approach to sentencing — brought to fruition in last Session 's Criminal Justice Act — is to have a range of custodial and exacting community penalties graduated to fit the seriousness of the offence .
2 The risks of trouble arising were too great ’ .
3 the styles of music making are wide ranging and adequately cater for ethnic/folk and Scottish music , thus dispensing with the need to have separate descriptors for these categories ;
4 Certain areas of family functioning are particularly useful for predictions of this kind .
5 With turnover having been so sluggish for two years some works at the Biennale had been déjà vu at other fairs .
6 There is no way of telling whether those ‘ hurt ’ by insider dealing are more numerous than those ‘ hurt ’ by trading before inside facts have impacted the market via ‘ legitimate ’ disclosure rules , so that investors are price-takers taking a faulty price .
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