Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was drinking a lot , eating loads and still losing weight . |
| 2 | Such systems are excellent for producing maps and currently contribute to the management of geographic information but their analytical functions are weak . |
| 3 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 4 | Hospitality is the magazine for professional managers in the hotel and catering industry and now reaching all of its senior executives . |
| 5 | The youth could n't have been an inch over five feet three , skinny with dark curly hair and flashing eyes that never seemed to be still , as if he were always on the lookout for trouble . |
| 6 | By March 1992 , 3.64m people had opened Tessa accounts , depositing £10bn and therefore removing that much spending power from the economy for five years — a side-effect for which Mr Major might not wish to claim too personal a responsibility . |
| 7 | Clearly there is a range of similar applications such as warehouses and supermarkets where someone has to go around checking stock and then enter the data into a computer . |
| 8 | This is the premise on which Andy Selters has written what his publishers claims is the ‘ only book devoted to understanding glaciers and how to cross them ’ . |
| 9 | To many Churchill was not so much a buccaneer as a straightforward pirate , a political outcast who skated on thin ice deliberately to keep himself in the public eye , a man who polished brilliant and wounding phrases that tacitly suggested himself as the alternative should his jeremiads turn out true . |
| 10 | He rejoiced in the large numbers becoming Christians and carefully recorded them . |
| 11 | Using simple partial equilibrium analysis , and assuming perfectly competitive markets , it can be shown that there are net welfare gains to be had from eliminating NTBs and thereby allow free movement to take place . |
| 12 | The company denied huge redundancies at its Edinburgh plant although it admitted ax-ing Sunday and overtime working , banning non-essential recruitment and introducing voluntary early retirement . |
| 13 | But his latest ‘ papal bull ’ — that is what planning guidance notes are , announcing changes and yet stressing tradition as they do — emphasises that ‘ town cramming ’ is to be frowned on . |
| 14 | The hotel operated a policy of re-letting rooms if not taken up by 6pm , but if the customer paid a separate charge , the room could be kept for the customer after that time . |
| 15 | Nitrous oxide , commonly known as laughing gas and once used as a dental anaesthetic , is a natural product of biological processes in soils and water but is also emitted to the atmosphere by fossil-fuel burning , soil disturbance , the application of nitrogen based fertilizers , biomass burning and animal and human wastes . |
| 16 | With constituency support , and the votes of other trade unionists , John Smith was elected Party leader by a larger number of contributing members than ever had the chance to vote for John Major or Paddy Ashdown . |
| 17 | Then they started signing autographs and even posed for a photograph with pub regular Frank Gait . |
| 18 | Six feet five inches ( 1.9 metres ) tall , left-handed , bespectacled , with a loose , ambling walk that always seemed so relaxed , he wielded a three-pound ( 1.35-kilo ) bat with enormous strength and delighted in sending the ball vast distances . |
| 19 | As already mentioned , spreadsheets are often thought of as the key number crunching application and therefore benefit most from a numeric coprocessor . |
| 20 | • AutoBanking withdrawals and Direct Debits 27p each • Cheques and Standing Orders 30p each • Maintenance Charge £3 per quarter ( issuing of cheque books , AutoBank/AutoCheque Cards , and quarterly statements etc . ) |
| 21 | But they certainly alerted employers to the possibility of employing women and therefore roused the immediate distrust of the unions . |
| 22 | We distinguished between optional inferences ( not required for understanding discourse but naturally suggested once a discourse interpretation has been decided upon ) and bridging inferences ( necessary for establishing the links between apparently unrelated elements in the discourse ) . |
| 23 | Members of all three shifts were milling about the circular room : repeating rumours , distorting facts and generally hyping themselves up . |
| 24 | The former makes the point that genetically engineered bacteria tend to be much less viable than their naturally occurring counterparts and thus tend to die off rapidly . |
| 25 | For opening doors and not giving a damn about what anybody else has to say to it . |
| 26 | The connection between girls suffering from eating disorders and violently hating their own bodies , and sexual violence in society , struck me more and more powerfully as I listened to girls talking about periods , body shape and size , and how they feel about their bodies . |
| 27 | — Produce a programming environment for using PROLOG that both assists students and gives data about their understanding of PROLOG . |
| 28 | Mr Johnson , of Coningsby Drive , Kidderminster , claimed the company had boasted of the success of using saleswomen and never had any intention of offering him a job because he was a man . |
| 29 | She had been one of the founder members of the Institutional Management Association in Yorkshire and later involved herself additionally in the Hotel & Catering Institute and always kept in contact with the professional association throughout her career . |
| 30 | European Community tuna fleets have been banned from using nets that also catch dolphins in areas where tuna and dolphins are found together . |