Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Hebrew scriptures , God is of course overwhelmingly conceived using male figures of speech . |
| 2 | The evidence of Moreau and Richter , confirming the identity of Katja Müller , had been thought to strengthen the case against her bogus sister sufficiently to justify bringing charges . |
| 3 | In this case , the physiotherapist gives the sole of the foot gently graded stretching as it is placed to the floor . |
| 4 | been a bit long winded doing that . |
| 5 | At very high speeds in Force 5 + a spin out occurs when the skeg suddenly stops working and the board loses control , slipping sideways . |
| 6 | Sometimes they may end with one side going extinct , in which case the other side presumably stops evolving in that particular progressive direction , and indeed it will probably even ‘ regress ’ for economic reasons soon to be discussed . |
| 7 | The soldier eventually stopped talking . |
| 8 | To imagine an activity in isolation presumably means imagining , so to speak , the minimum bit of reality which would have to exist for the activity to go on . |
| 9 | Work on voting behaviour in Great Britain in the 1980s illustrates this , with the class divide much distorted according to power in the market place , which in turn has become increasingly spatially variable : Johnston and Pattie , 1988 , 1990 . ) |
| 10 | If the horse suddenly starts bucking when we ride it , and we jump off and swat it with a cane ; the horse will remember , but it may remember the wrong thing . |
| 11 | It therefore looks as though Swegen wintered in England , and in the following spring perhaps went plundering in the Irish Sea , for one of the versions of the Welsh chronicle known as the Annales Cambriæ records the harrying of the Isle of Man by a Swegen son of Harald in a year which is likely to be 995 . |
| 12 | Peter Armstrong , for Robert Lowther , said his defendant only began offending in 1988 . |
| 13 | Team appraisal thus involves sharing with colleagues your own strengths and weaknesses and what you and they think could or should be done about them . |
| 14 | I was alone here night after night , and that sports car just kept driving up to get you . |
| 15 | The rhodium and the iodide just continue cycling as long as feedstocks are supplied . |
| 16 | The rhodium and the iodide just continue cycling as long as feedstocks are supplied . |
| 17 | The act of investment usually involves abstaining from current consumption in order to acquire assets , which raise the productive potential of the economy , and therefore the possibilities for future consumption . |
| 18 | Although planning authorities are urged to consider the differential effects of in-town and out-of-town developments , the guidance studiously avoids giving a clear indication of the shopping patterns to be favoured in future . |
| 19 | Medical action usually includes using Haemacell , dopamine and dobutamine . |
| 20 | AN OBSESSED fan yesterday admitted bombarding snooker world champion Stephen Hendry with obscene letters and phone calls . |
| 21 | In the largest experiment ever undertaken using the methods of integrated pest management ( IPM ) , scientists with the UN 's Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) have demonstrated that cutting back on the applications of pesticide can result in increased crop yields . |
| 22 | The Government has yet to appoint its three Committee members , and this is likely to be a long business , since confusion still reigns following the April elections . |
| 23 | was promoted to the Chair in Retail Studies and a number of appointments were made at lecturer level ; however , senior appointments in the department still require filling as a matter of urgency . |
| 24 | In practice the programme usually means exercising sovereign control over a , so far as possible , continuous stretch of territory with clearly defined borders , inhabited by a homogeneous population that forms its essential body of citizens . |
| 25 | 3 A written constitution with judicial review clearly involves staking out a position of greater political power for the judges . |
| 26 | The Confederation of British Industry also wants hacking outlawed , but the Data Protection Registrar is adamant that hacking per se should not be a crime . |
| 27 | The Interim Committee 's programme also envisaged making a levy on oil-producing countries which benefited from the crisis through higher prices , to help other IMF members pay interest on their borrowings from the fund . |
| 28 | The piece also involves using the potential of the spindle moulder to create solid shapes . |
| 29 | The Syndicat also envisages setting up a central register to record the date of founding , the name of the artist , the title of the work , its size and weight . |
| 30 | The priest also came hobbling in , his long hair swinging like a veil round his emaciated face . |