Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wigan and Huddersfield should be officially crowned champions of the First and Third divisions respectively , with Leigh and Sheffield effectively clinching promotion to the First . |
| 2 | Paintwork badly needing done , |
| 3 | He said that this could lead to ‘ a non-statutory monopoly ’ and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . |
| 4 | For example , in those areas where golden eagles fed extensively on carrion sheep which had been dipped in dieldrin , the proportion of pairs successfully rearing young fell from 72 per cent to 29 per cent during the late 1950s . |
| 5 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 6 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 7 | Physically , it can cause hangovers , disturbed sleep , vitamin deficiencies and inflammation of the gastro intestinal tract and , more seriously , severe liver damage eventually resulting in death . |
| 8 | But now , here was Beryl vigorously maintaining that her father had ‘ worked it all out — planned it move by move ’ . |
| 9 | As the name implies you walk towards the back of the board thereby sinking the tail . |
| 10 | In about half of all cases hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is familial , the remaining cases presumably arising from sporadic mutation . |
| 11 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 12 | Gun battles between rival gangs of inmates had left 18 prisoners dead following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Olivero Chavez Araujo , a self-styled drug baron serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 13 | The Reagan forces claimed that the previous administration , anxious to avoid a tax increase in an election year , had left behind a sizeable budgetary deficit thereby forcing on the new governor the need to introduce legislation substantially raising some forms of taxation . |
| 14 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 15 | They flew across the UK , down the Irish Sea to Gibraltar , back through France and Germany eventually arriving back at Coningsby in time of an early breakfast . |
| 16 | But I was n't there , and this is to your advantage because I 'm not going to harp on about my favourite Shankly saying , or pretend I was close friends with the man like certain people do . |
| 17 | They stayed there for a quarter of an hour , the only movement being the driver slowly inching his little finger up so that he could lock the door . |
| 18 | Some large securities firms have withdrawn from options market making due to inadequate returns thereby reducing market liquidity further , leading to less competitive quotes and irregular updating of prices . |
| 19 | However , it seems unlikely that in the foreseeable future they will attract sufficient students to make them viable as institutions predominantly offering courses of higher education . |
| 20 | The defendant 's solicitor endorses on the copy summons a certificate duly accepting service and giving an address for service . |
| 21 | The United States argued in the context of Suez that there is a user right appertaining to all users of the Canal , including , presumably , potential users . |
| 22 | Few elitists now hold to the notion of a single dominant elite effectively exercising or directing the exercise of all important functions , and few now use the term ‘ elite ’ as the all-embracing explanatory concept which it is for the classical theorists . |
| 23 | He missed the next fixture at Northampton but re-appeared at Trent Bridge for the Notts game and was called eight times for throwing and seven times fro dragging . |
| 24 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 25 | His arm juts stiffly towards her , fingers furiously quivering . |
| 26 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It usually starts with truancy and bunking off then they get into shoplifting and drug taking and on to burglary eventually becoming habitual criminals , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Finally , there was a frenzy of discounting before Christmas 1991 , with a number of large chains effectively starting their sales before Christmas . |
| 29 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 30 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |