Example sentences of "[adv] and [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wet and windy conditions prevailing were not conducive to good hockey , with the visitors adapting better and taking both points in a creditable 2–1 win . |
| 2 | It often involves looking at problems afresh and giving serious consideration to ideas which have traditionally been regarded as impossible or is practicable . |
| 3 | I went back to it carefully , stroking it gently and making shushing noises with my mouth . |
| 4 | Layers of organic muds of swamp origin will be interspersed with wedge-shaped horizons of marine sediments thinning landwards and representing marine advance , however this may have been caused , levees of coarser sediment will follow the courses of former distributaries , while fanshaped spreads of such material will mark the sites of levee breaches . |
| 5 | We can not create reasons just by intending to do so and expressing that intention in action . |
| 6 | Consider restricting the heads of agreement to key terms only and covering minor issues at the contract stage . |
| 7 | He and Gina went on living together and nagging each other quietly . |
| 8 | Er the three options were joint authorities er this would mean er unitary authorities within an area joining together and forming some sort of er joint committee arrangements and joint staffing arrangements to prepare a plan over a wider area . |
| 9 | The feeling of comradeship now in Liverpool , the feeling that everyone was in it together and helping each other , was something that her mother would never understand , she felt , nor her grief for the baby . |
| 10 | He traced the development of the Community College and role in bringing together and assisting local organisations . |
| 11 | ‘ I think success depends on people getting together and getting committed people to help . |
| 12 | Even now , as she smiled at her son 's antics — he was laughing and clapping his little hands together and making mischievous faces at Cissie , who adored him — memories of Tyler besieged her heart . |
| 13 | Partnerships aim to improve the educational and vocational opportunities of young people by working together and understanding each other 's needs and objectives . |
| 14 | Your collectors are taking progressively longer and having increasing difficulty in getting paid . |
| 15 | They took the fish to an unaffected stretch of canal 150 yards away and realising bigger fish were still distressed returned on Thurday to finish the job . |
| 16 | He just goes on past me , puffing away and shoving this trolley thing in front of him . |
| 17 | The strength and the value of the contemporary monarchy derives from being above and avoiding political decisions . |
| 18 | reading literature for enjoyment , responding to it critically and using that reading for learning . |
| 19 | Back the maid went , only to reappear shaking her head sorrowfully and saying this headache was so very bad as to quite incapacitate the invalid and render her unfit even for Wilson . |
| 20 | In recent years , however , there has been a move towards more intensive farming : altering the lambing season so they are born at different times of the year ; bringing lambs indoors and using special feed to make them grow bigger . |
| 21 | The previous two aspects are clearly the main thrusts of RMI but combining them together successfully and reducing negative fall-out within the organisation is , in effect , the third aspect , that of managing the cultural change that new systems will inevitably produce . |
| 22 | Their annual autumn celebration of English Apples and Cider , organised locally and involving many people , has been chosen as one of nine European projects which are seeking to develop tourism whilst respecting the environment and rural cultural values . |
| 23 | Electrolyte imbalances are usually rare in surgical patients who were in good health pre-operatively and undergoing straightforward operations of relatively short duration . |
| 24 | Though he would hate to have it said , he is an intellectual himself who has paid transport the compliment of studying it properly and knowing most things about it . |
| 25 | He appreciates , too , that he must , in this instance , tread a diplomatic line between doing his job properly and maintaining good relations with club managers whose assistance he will need when fully competitive matches arise . |
| 26 | This he does at the highest level in the HERMS file structure , defining boxes in the work file for sub-teams to work within and inputting technical details as text in the technical file ; this latter entry could be considerable . |
| 27 | Of the five , probably only William Snr. and Thomas were practical binders , the rest migrating to London and proving themselves good businessmen as booksellers , travelling widely and selling fine books , including the Halifax products . |
| 28 | The wartime commentator 's jingoistic jangle was this time replaced by a solemn voice , and we were confronted with pictures of moving skeletons , some of them smiling weakly and making slow gestures . |
| 29 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 30 | They were thinking , like Berbizier , of building for the 1995 World Cup , but now they realise that confidence comes from getting your senior players right and winning each game as it comes along . |