Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other side of the coin you might find a child who is experiencing such difficulties in his learning that the first line of attack must be in , in terms of perhaps producing just an improvement of his base level of learning , so that the next step can be taken . |
| 2 | At the same time , the Cobham Fellowship itself formed five smaller congregations from the one large group , only meeting twice a month as one church . |
| 3 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 4 | Show some ability to organise and present complex subject matter , eg putting forward a number of conflicting points of view , or weaving two strands into a story . |
| 5 | If , like her , you have a sweet tooth , you might be better leaving just a little sugar in the diet to increase the likelihood that you will continue with the new sugar-reduced regime . |
| 6 | Around the Dorset coast at Lyme Regis , mammoth waves roared over the promenade , badly damaging even a tank-like , £23,000 Range Rover . |
| 7 | This time it will almost certainly drop a wing , but just easing forwards a little will make a recovery . |
| 8 | In both the government and the opposition press in Morocco , the situation in the Western Sahara was meanwhile becoming increasingly a focus for nationalist commentary . |
| 9 | In Chalatenango , for example , the FMLN forces maintain that by preference , sexual relations should not occur outside of a matrimony ( understood in a broad sense and not implying either a civil or religious ceremony ) . |
| 10 | Just pausing there a minute , did you have did you I should say , have personal experience of that estate ? |
| 11 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 12 | This meant that the USA was actually borrowing overseas , although admittedly paying rather a low rate of interest in real terms ( after allowing for inflation , the real rate of interest on US Treasury bills was 1½ per cent per annum over the years 1960–6 ) . |
| 13 | She felt fitzAlan glance down as she spoke and carefully kept her eyes lowered , not risking even a brief look at the pedlar . |
| 14 | It got quite windy in the morning but he got his head down and played to par , not speaking hardly a word , even to me . |
| 15 | ‘ Not many people run away wearing just a bathrobe . ’ |
| 16 | Alan Tonke who has set this one up says that it has n't been easy getting together a viable collection of items to auction . |
| 17 | He remarked that this might be a reason for not getting more A grades . |
| 18 | First of all , he can include a patent indemnity , without any exclusion clause tacked on to it , along the lines set out above , providing express but limited remedies , and , in particular , not putting forward an express right to compensation for economic loss . |
| 19 | At night a clamour of frogs and crickets arose and this diabolical piping served to string nerves which were already humming tight a little tighter . |
| 20 | And they were not mourning just a businessman , political figure and brother mason . |
| 21 | Look at the effect of playing the Queen of Diamonds under the King of Diamonds , thus throwing away a clear winner . |
| 22 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 23 | Their increasing interest in the subject actually led to the pair 's first ever meeting just a year ago . |
| 24 | Noel Wilson 's chance on Flap Jack looked dim with two to jump in the Bramham Moor 's Restricted , with G Derek still going strongly a dozen lengths ahead . |
| 25 | e ) Sudden changes of pressure in the ears when clearing them , either on ascent or descent , can produce in susceptible pilots a strong feeling of disorientation , usually lasting only a few seconds . |
| 26 | Winter has come at last , and we have had some severe frosts , but we are still getting quite a lot of sun , in marked contrast to last year 's everlasting grey skies . |
| 27 | Always check whether your present lender can offer an improved rate , possibly charging only a nominal fee . |
| 28 | But was n't he still taking rather a chance , if it was all that important to him that I should n't survive ? |
| 29 | The cordoned area was much bigger than they had realised , for several square yards of the level ground on top had subsided into ominous , shallow holes , here and there breaking the turf , and the slope down to the river path , once dropping gradually a matter of fifteen feet or so , now sagged in red rolls of soil and grass . |
| 30 | All the fish are eating and growing and they look perfectly healthy — but they are still flicking just a much as before . |