Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practical terms this concern is relevant only where supervising and senior staff in the agency may learn about a pollution ; by definition these are cases which the agency regards as important , in particular , those which may have implications for the agency 's public reputation . |
| 2 | Babyish even for nine year olds perhaps , but better than waiting until they are teenagers . |
| 3 | She believed in love , but she had been too impatient , her eagerness to experience it persuading her to believe that what she had felt went deeper than liking and a mild physical attraction . |
| 4 | This ‘ long-rod penetrator ’ punches a hole through the armour of an enemy tank , destroying equipment inside and killing or disabling the crew . |
| 5 | As one teacher said , ‘ I rather resent people coming in and criticising when they have n't been in on a regular basis ’ . |
| 6 | It 's time people gave some of our youngsters the credit for realising the state the country is in and knowing that they are the ones who are going to have to put it right — and are prepared to work hard to do so . |
| 7 | Mrs Maginnis said : ‘ We do n't have patients running hospitals and we do n't have neighbours living in the vicinity going in and testing that intestines have been put back properly by the surgeon carrying out the operation . |
| 8 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 9 | She just stays in and working and the whole family come round to her house computer room |
| 10 | I 'm only going in and saying that erm I 've got twenty thousand coming to me now I want to buy an house with it . |
| 11 | At giving the baby his last feed at ten and putting him down and hoping that he 'd stay asleep till well half past five to six the next morning . |
| 12 | At the bottom of the escalator we meet the ticket inspector riding down and frowning as he approaches us . |
| 13 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 14 | It 's no good sitting down and moaning and , and being depressed and saying well I wo n't do that I wo n't do that . |
| 15 | Long and fulfilling because Alan Millet offered the chance to bite at an old enemy whose presence pervaded the rooms of the terraced home in Hampton Wick . |
| 16 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 17 | Does not the proactivity need to be politicians of all parties coming together and discussing and listening to each other rather than simply making pronouncements ? |
| 18 | She instructed Lucien to be careful with his leg , and to exercise the rest of his body only while lying or sitting down for a while . |
| 19 | In a temperate country shoes are made in a factory by workers who are process controllers rather than craftsmen , and they touch the materials only when loading or unloading machines . |
| 20 | Whatever the ultimate aim might be , for the moment the CNAA was going as far only as delegating or sharing aspects of the validation process — which meant accepting the limitations of the CNAA 's existing Charter . |
| 21 | Consequently , especially when recording and reporting information , the need to use neutral , factual words is necessary . |
| 22 | Each of these are covered in this leaflet as each may affect you personally when deciding whether to take the HIV antibody test . |
| 23 | Especially so when housing and jobs are in such short supply for those who already live here . |
| 24 | Stacked for six months this will provide a useful ingredient to dig into the ground in the autumn , either forked in when planting or used as a mulch . |
| 25 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
| 26 | Well i that was to sort of try and make you focus on the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we 're going to receive , that we receive through or that you have strengthened through Confirmation , rather than receiving because they 're already there . |
| 27 | Can it be , that when Gandhi refers to morality without religion as being similar to a house built on sand he is simply expressing in a different way his belief in the convertibility of these terms rather than suggesting that morality has to be related to a particular religion ? |
| 28 | Never forget that these assumptions are just that ; we can never prove that a variable is prior rather than intervening or ensuing . |
| 29 | It tends to be exclusive rather than inclusive , in that our thinking may be confined to those matters which fall within accepted categories rather than accepting that all situations to which the law pertains can give rise to legal problems despite the fact that there is no immediately available legal framework for their solution . |
| 30 | Not only are biblical accounts of supernatural visitations during dreams and dreams foretelling the future repeated without comment , even where ambiguity exists , the authors writing for children insert more accounts of dreams rather than asserting that visitations happened to people who were awake . |