Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it is remarkable that it 's taken until nineteen ninety two for the Labour party to discover that democracy consists in one man one vote rather than somebody holding up holding up a card |
| 2 | I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the convertibility crisis appears now to have been predominantly a problem of financial adjustment rather than one stemming from a crisis in world trade ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 4 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 5 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 6 | After Mrs Bedworth received a £700 phone bill , she had an electronic bar put on her phone so that anyone making outgoing calls had to dial a code . |
| 7 | Immolation rather than anyone hearing . |
| 8 | Well I was impressed by the erm the Maxwell erm peoples comments that the funds should be clearly marked pension fund accounts and and that er there would be regulations that this money could n't be transferred without some the regulator again or somebody making er agreeing to the transaction , but I erm fully understand that would be erm very time-consuming , but er that 's the only way I can see that , that the fund should be clearly marked that they 're pension fund and should n't be transferred without some some authority agreeing to it . |
| 9 | Contracts are drawn up with an eye to flexibility and a contract is often considered an agreement to enter into a general course of conduct rather than something fixing precise terms . |
| 10 | There was never much conviction in the way Biggs fought , his attitude more that of a man boxing from memory rather than one attempting to resurrect a shattered career , and Mason was never persuaded that genuine peril might result from exchanges in the middle of the ring . |
| 11 | Optical character recognition ( OCR ) systems electronically read typewritten text into a word-processing system rather than it having to be keyed in manually . |
| 12 | Indeed the overall triumph of art in this case is that the novel walks out into our fact rather than ourselves entering its fiction : a very primitive and absolute form of consumer capitulation . |
| 13 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 14 | The committee also recommended that the government clarify the rules covering the supply of heat and energy so that anyone planning a CHP scheme would not need to carry out long negotiations with the electricity industry . |
| 15 | There will be no increase in premium even though you gon na get an increase in benefits . |