Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] [pron] [am/are] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ride out by companies , whether it 's hunting or hawking there are always enough of them to make for safety . |
| 2 | The general picture which emerges is one in which , whilst a considerable amount of assistance does pass between relatives , the procedures for asking for , offering and accepting it are quite tricky to handle in practice . |
| 3 | Diffusing knowledge and acquiring it are as much an art as a science , processes influenced by variables which can not be measured as much as by those which can . |
| 4 | Well of course there is n't very much of a democratic tradition in Russia that 's quite true , but that 's very different from of the Russians and all the Soviet people and saying they 're simply incapable of living under democracy . |
| 5 | Half a century ago , youths in Wellington bombers flew out to deal death and have it dealt to them in return ; now the American F-111s roar overhead , and , from time to time , a plume of orange flame and a cloud of smoke appear on the horizon to remind us all that dishing it out and taking it are widely differing talents . |
| 6 | And so he took her arm and pulled her into the street again and , still holding her arm , he said , ‘ And what do you think I feel like when I do n't see you and knowing you 're away dancing with that John Bennett or that Sweetman fellow ? ’ |
| 7 | The author does a sterling job in painstakingly assembling a large corpus of evidence from a vast variety of sources , taking us through a welter of contemporary descriptions and extrapolating what are almost invariably convincing conclusions from the visual evidence . |
| 8 | The problems they encounter in creating and interpreting them are as sophisticated and as complex as they come . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I 'm in the side , I 'm running into these superstars and thinking I 'm only a young boy , but I 'm mixing it with the best . |