Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starting at the crowded favoured end is all very well if you can get a good clean start , but more often than not , there is so much crowding that only a few boards get away in clean wind . |
| 2 | It 's a question of not being discouraged and persevering until suddenly a drawing looks like you hope , of seeing the possibility in something , in a line , and thinking ‘ Oh quick , I must n't change that . |
| 3 | Asthma was defined as discrete episodes of wheezing and either a previous diagnosis of asthma or documented reversible airway obstruction as determined by a 20% improvement in forced expiratory volume in one second ( FEV 1 ) after bronchodilator administration or a 20% decrease in FEV 1 after methacholine bronchoprovocation , performed in accordance with the American Thoracic Society guidelines . |
| 4 | Add the oil very carefully , drop by drop , beating in between each drop to avoid curdling until about a quarter has been added , then mix in the rest , pouring it in slowly and beating at the same time . |
| 5 | Nobody would dream of suggesting that only a man can understand male issues . ’ |
| 6 | But Lisa had less time for her , and was meeting new people , refining a way of living that even a year ago she would have claimed to despise . |
| 7 | In 1945 one could have been excused for believing that scarcely a wall could be left standing in the German capital after years of night raids by the RAF . |
| 8 | This was ginger brown in colour and so badly fitting that only a blind man would not realise that it was a hairpiece . |
| 9 | The Russian soldier was just ahead of me. from the road came the sounds of men shouting and then a long burst of machine-gun fire . |
| 10 | But most rabbits avoid swimming and certainly an exhausted rabbit could not swim the Enborne . |
| 11 | dBase IV 1.5 also includes better networking tools , the ability to have up to 40 databases open at once , improved indexing , more sort-and-select options , faster searching and generally a much easier approach to generating small applications without having to write any program code . |
| 12 | This is not to say that L'Histoire de France is not only a thought provoking but also a highly viewable volume — it most certainly is . |
| 13 | A piece of living history , it is also the most relaxing of centres for shopping , eating and even a little golf . |
| 14 | The French government gave no explanation for withdrawing its offer to give the Bosnians a plane , the spokesman said , adding that finally a prominent French businessman gave the refugees his private plane to use . |
| 15 | Then , recalling that only a short while ago he 'd guessed mockingly — and correctly — at a conventional upbringing , she added , ‘ Though you wo n't find it very exciting . ’ |
| 16 | When we moved here I was surround by sheep now I find I am surrounded by a sunday market , a bulldog bash , drag racing and now a pop festival . ’ |
| 17 | But before Read v. Lyons , the courts had gone further , holding that even a non-occupier may sue for personal injuries under the rule , and it is probably this development that their lordships had in mind . |
| 18 | They have seen the Court of Appeal 's judgment as stating that even an express clause can not validly protect confidential information unless it is a narrow trade secret or its equivalent . |
| 19 | The European Parliament on Sept. 12 , in a resolution stating that only a diplomatic solution could settle the crisis ( passed by 300 to 70 with 19 abstentions ) , called on Italy as current holder of the presidency of the European Communities ' Council of Ministers to convene a special EC summit to find such a solution . |
| 20 | Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just . |
| 21 | Both wet and dry deposition are implicitly included under the term ‘ acid rain' and so a better term would be ‘ acid deposition ’ . |
| 22 | What do you feel you know the fact that that that quite a lot of erm well you were saying e you saying that quite a few quite a lot more coloured people live here |
| 23 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 24 | The data revealed that human impact was greatest with initial use ; further increases in use levels exhibited a non-linear relationship , illustrating that once a campsite had been established , higher-use levels could be sustained without incurring disproportionate damage . |
| 25 | The aggrieved Main , in short , sought either an appointment as tidesman in a particular port , which would carry a regular salary , or failing that even a restoration to his former post of watchman , and naturally he attempted to secure his livelihood through his political friends , the Cunninghams . |
| 26 | One must take account of the inefficiencies such as the fact that many muons fail to initiate fusions at all , they are produced in an accelerator that has to be kept running and only a fraction of the power input ends up in beams of muons and energy is expended in the motion of the neutrons and alpha particles produced in the fusion reactions . |
| 27 | However , they require a complex treatment for finishing and so a ‘ wet processing ’ area had to be set up . |
| 28 | The Republic now travel to Turkey for their final match knowing that even a win may not suffice . |
| 29 | We should , of course , be going into today 's game with Leech Town knowing that only a victory will keep us in the League . |
| 30 | It was n't easy for him , all those women bickering and only a handful of people out of Dynmouth 's thousands ever setting foot in his church , and Mr Peniket sighing over the decline of church life . |