Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had happened to the Berwick raiding squadron was not to be known ; but the chance of any of its craft being able to penetrate the blockade , even by night , was minimal . |
| 2 | A preference for using Creole is certainly related to individual cultural values , as Edwards and Sutcliffe found in their West Midlands study . |
| 3 | However , there is general agreement that using Creole is more appropriate with " friends " than with members of the older generation . |
| 4 | ‘ We did feel concerned at first , but we have since been reassured that the chances of Andrew catching TB are extremely remote , ’ said Mr Morrison . |
| 5 | Because in practice there are alternative ways of proving purchase are n't there ? |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Those who are intent on pursuing violence are perhaps holding the majority sway now within the IRA army council . ’ |
| 7 | He added : ‘ Those who are intent on pursuing violence are perhaps holding the majority sway now within the IRA council . ’ |
| 8 | Morality may not be the same as religion — although in many of the great religions this distinction is not clearly perceived — but sincerity in pursuing religion is normally expected to carry with it sincerity in pursuing a high moral code . |
| 9 | Sniffing cocaine was just normal behaviour among the people he mixed with , and he developed his own cocaine addiction to add to his years of boozing , as he described : |
| 10 | The casual labour force in the hotels and catering industry is not a homogeneous one . |
| 11 | Depositing money is easily done , with an envelope dispensed by the cash machine : having completed your details , simply seal the cheque or cash in the envelope and insert it into the machine . |
| 12 | However , gaining weight is not an inevitable part of getting older . |
| 13 | Candy 's returning glance was worryingly unconvinced . |
| 14 | This well-styled jacket , incorporating Karrimor 's now familiar K2 logo , is at the pricey end of the market but has enough winning features to guarantee it 'll be popular . |
| 15 | The international community can not afford to be complacent , assuming that if the United Nations peacekeeping force is there that everything will go according to plan . |
| 16 | Kelsen insists that ‘ every law applying act is only partly determined by law ’ and presents actual legal systems as a synthesis of formal , static deduction and informal , dynamic determination . |
| 17 | It is truly a sublime glen : you can scarcely allow the eye to leave for a minute the mighty mountain walls on either side ( for some new scar , or crag , or corrie , or leaping cataract is ever being discovered ) , and their charming variegation of shade and tint among the mosses , rock , and grass , or among the heath and heather-bell . |
| 18 | Trading wealth was largely confined to southern centres of wool exports ; when England joined other Atlantic states , Spain , Portugal , France and the Netherlands , in expansion to other continents , much of the resulting capital remained in the south . |
| 19 | The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo . |
| 20 | Yet in another way , enabling self-expression is often relatively easy . |
| 21 | The main significance claimed for the market for corporate control as an efficiency- inducing device is not so much that companies are actually taken-over and inadequate managements displaced , though of course this does happen and is regarded as a valuable effect of the mechanism , but that incumbent managements fear take-over and hence will do all they can to make the company efficient and the share price correspondingly high . |
| 22 | It is only necessary to add that a consistency checking procedure is also called . |
| 23 | I am male which means I can not have children , I am somewhat reserved by nature so I am unlikely to be the life and soul of anyone 's party , and my chances of becoming King are very slim . |
| 24 | Because everybody de everybody 's denying inflation is there . |
| 25 | An interesting point is that the tendency to fracture by the spreading of cracks is relatively little affected by temperature whereas the viscosity or shearing stress is very dependent upon temperature . |
| 26 | ‘ But stripping paper is n't the answer , ’ he yelled — ‘ it is n't the answer if the wall is basically no good ! ’ people nodded some more . |
| 27 | Indeed , one commentator has argued that the cost of acquiring control is so great that the disciplinary force of the market is ‘ likely to be limited to instances of gross managerial failure ’ . |
| 28 | The permanganate sprinkling method is less successful in wet weather , during which time I usually resort to carefully lifting a square foot of lawn with a spade . |
| 29 | ‘ But it 'll take you the best part of two days to provide the concealment , ’ said Dorrainge , surveying Lugh 's neatly drawn plans and watching the men sawing off branches and raking up leaves from the forest floor . |
| 30 | But it is equally harmful to swing to the opposite extreme : to claim that the enterprise of becoming literate is hard only because teachers make it so , and that children would succeed perfectly well if they were just provided with suitable books and left to themselves . |