Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( My dad never touched the pig , though I was sure this was conditioning rather than religious scruple , just as I would n't eat horse 's scrotum . |
| 2 | You do n't have anywhere to wash your clothes or even yourself sometimes , so you 're dirty and your clothes are dirty and you 're not eating properly so you 're more liable to illness and this sort of thing , so that you 're not likely to keep a job even if you get it , and you ca n't get accommodation without a deposit , and so you need several hundred pounds in order to get accommodation . |
| 3 | He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual . |
| 4 | I insist on eating properly and will not skimp , even if it means altering the social calendar to suit . |
| 5 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 6 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 7 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 8 | There is a complex range of institutions and practices involved in local political activity , including economically and socially based organizations . |
| 9 | The text evolves , through successive steps of minor redrafting rather than through the more mysterious process of gestation , and with less chance of outside events or circumstances making you forget where you have got to . |
| 10 | Indeed , the child was rattling and bubbling , coughing weakly and obviously in great discomfort . |
| 11 | This inherent uncertainty , coupled with the possibility of fines and private actions , could risk inhibiting rather than promoting competition . |
| 12 | Even if Mr Lang decided on a form of franchising rather than the formation of privatised companies , that would be seen as privatisation by the back door . |
| 13 | He could feel his heart thudding furiously and hoped desperately that he 'd succeeded in making his voice sound casual . |
| 14 | And er I was n't eating right because I just did n't feel hungry I did n't bother about food I just seemed to keep going and keep going . |
| 15 | That phrase is read narrowly to convict the accused of handling rather than theft , handling being a more serious offence than theft . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't remember a horse so far ahead in the Grand National at this stage ! ’ enthused commentator Julian Wilson on BBC television as Crisp came to Becher 's Brook for the second time , still looking uncatchable : galloping relentlessly and jumping brilliantly , he was thirty lengths clear and showed no signs of flagging . |
| 17 | Some others , though , among them the winner in Paris in two Sundays ' time , will be mysteriously gathering rather than losing strength . |
| 18 | Will it not encourage the image of a model singing rather than a singing model ? |
| 19 | Instead of quitting the music business she should have learned to use it for singing rather than mouthing off at every opportunity . |
| 20 | a lot of the people used to come in and they 'd be in in his hotel , boozing rather than being at the pub you know , he says it for me I got a bottle and everything there . |
| 21 | As Cooper implied , a tutor-organiser 's success in encouraging rather than destroying the voluntary movement is largely , matter of degree — of knowing how much to do to advance the WEA here and there , while leaving as much as possible to the voluntary members . |
| 22 | As the Shipping Federation got into gear in supplying " free labour " , the emphasis quickly changed to encouraging rather than discouraging foreign seamen recruitment and entrance fees were reduced . |
| 23 | Because hyoscine may be a significant factor contributing to the tachycardia , sparing rather than routine use of this agent is advisable . |
| 24 | Smaller firms are avoiding auditing altogether and 40% are operating without insurance cover . |
| 25 | Eating badly and gaining weight is an unpleasant experience , and should be so different from your new lifestyle that you never want to do it again . |
| 26 | Patients , particularly women who are conditioned from childhood to be accepting rather than questioning , are given the sense that they must n't try to invade medical territory . |
| 27 | From that point onward the story is a bonus but overall you read for the quality of language and the quality of seeing rather than the material . |
| 28 | Pilate standing on , you imagine knowing that he has delivered up an innocent man , knowing that he 's delivered to death someone who is not guilty of death , knowing that he is the son of God , the King of the Jews , listen to what he says and th listen to what he 's watch , he 's seeing rather and the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around him and they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him , and after weaving a crown of thorns they put it on his head and reed in his right hand , and they kneeled down before him and mocked him saying , hail ! |
| 29 | it 's not easy to recognise solvent misusers and it 's hard for shopkeepers to know whether a young person will use a product for sniffing rather than for its legitimate purpose . |
| 30 | Dressler and Wodak ( 1982 ) argue from experimental evidence that the operation of CSPs is dependent on ‘ attention ’ factors — that is , whether the speaker is articulating slowly and carefully ( see further 8.2.2 ) . |