Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 2 | DESPAIR : Many girls are too scared to ask for help struggling to cope with conflicting cultures |
| 3 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 4 | Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost . |
| 5 | The Laboratory is catering to demand for local chips from Taiwanese Sparcsystem builders such as Tatung Electronics Co , Datatech Inc , Twinhead Inc , Sampo Inc and Chicony Inc . |
| 6 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote . |
| 7 | Keeping up permanent co-ordination between personality and outer appearance is as oppressive as never daring to appear in public without a set of fully matching clothes and accessories . |
| 8 | Dead birds were to be seen everywhere , and live ones , in quarrelling flocks , feeding on the burst stacks and blown seed-corn ; stabbing the cheeses that shone in the short winter grass ; pecking at the dried skeins of fish ; fluttering trapped beneath torn scraps of net . |
| 9 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 10 | The sad fact is that the vast majority are failing to realise their evangelistic potential , preferring to concentrate on spiritual nurture of the existing group members . |
| 11 | We have , on the one hand , the career ecclesiastic , the planner and man of an essentially legalistic mind , and , on the other , the religious enthusiast who takes no thought for the morrow , preferring to trust in divine power and provision . |
| 12 | This will also help to prevent the disks from becoming filled with obsolete files . |
| 13 | Absorption is commonly used as a method of odour abatement where odour nuisance is the result of a gas stream becoming contaminated with low concentrations of mixtures of compounds such as fatty acids , ammonia , amines , sulphur dioxide , and perhaps to a lesser extent sulphides and organic sulphur compounds , i.e . |
| 14 | Storage on optical media is possible , using document image processing ( DIP ) technology , but standards for optical media are still very fluid , and we must avoid becoming trapped by non-mainstream hardware/software . |
| 15 | The session saw the consolidation of the work of the Advanced Courses Development Programme , with the new Higher National courses becoming incorporated in mainstream provision . |
| 16 | The concept stemmed from a great warrior of the past and tales of his valour and achievements becoming adorned with colourful details and highly magnified by constant telling . |
| 17 | These set limits to the level of contributions with the aim to prevent candidates from becoming obligated to special interest groups . |
| 18 | Rather , it means that honour is becoming assessed in different ways . |
| 19 | A third party may claim that it can participate in a treaty either fully , by becoming a party , or partially , by becoming bound by certain sections . |
| 20 | In one fell swoop , Virgin had acquired that most elusive of qualities , ‘ street credibility ’ ; the company roster now boasted groups like Magazine , Penetration , the Members , the Skids — what was becoming known as New Wave , a marketing term used to denote almost any performer that had emerged in the aftermath of punk who did not spit in his audience 's eye . |
| 21 | The sequence of developments to be outlined below is becoming known as K-type transition , with the implication that there are other types . |
| 22 | The type was developed considerably by German growers , with more amenable size , choice blooms and scent , becoming known as Hybrid Musks . |
| 23 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 24 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 25 | Pressure jetting followed by natural drainage , squeegee assisted , or by wet vacuum . |
| 26 | Repeated warming and cooling resulted in varying readings . |
| 27 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 28 | Nor can I accept any teaching that talks about becoming attuned to spiritual forces which have nothing to do with the Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 30 | Whilst resolving to stay at independent as possible , I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . |