Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asthma was defined as discrete episodes of wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airway obstruction as determined by a 20% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) after bronchodilator administration or a 20% decrease in FEV 1 after methacholine bronchoprovocation , performed in accordance with the American Thoracic Society guidelines . |
| 2 | The Russian soldier was just ahead of me. from the road came the sounds of men shouting and then a long burst of machine-gun fire . |
| 3 | But most rabbits avoid swimming and certainly an exhausted rabbit could not swim the Enborne . |
| 4 | A piece of living history , it is also the most relaxing of centres for shopping , eating and even a little golf . |
| 5 | The choice therefore arises between peripheral development of the urban area and the villages surrounding or alternatively the new settlement itself , the effect of peripheral development on the city has already been discussed , and I support those who consider that it would be harmful to the character and indeed to the setting of York . |
| 6 | Everyone has jumped on the bus without paying and now the whole transport system is going under . |
| 7 | Both wet and dry deposition are implicitly included under the term ‘ acid rain' and so a better term would be ‘ acid deposition ’ . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , in the event that , in the future , short term letting could not provide a sufficiently profitable return , the possibility of long term letting or even the complete selling off of a number of these chalets , can not be ignored . |
| 9 | ARs depend heavily on us , not only for their income but for product and technical training , administrative backup , mortgage advice , special guidance in areas such as corporate pensions , compliance with the FSA , sales ideas , day to day motivation , marketing support , general morale boosting and even the occasional lunch ! |
| 10 | IF it 's more than a small amount that you 're drinking and also a regular thing then booze may not be quite as harmless as you think . |
| 11 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |