Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steel-grey light at the windows , opaque at first , then each pane slowly clarifying as if the dawn were melting frost from the glass . |
| 2 | The Report , to the surprise of some , was silent on the subject of secondary-school organization and on the strong differences of opinion then developing on whether secondary modern schools reserved by design for the less able could ever succeed . |
| 3 | Manufacturers of ‘ specials ’ custom-build their chips to suit particular applications , in the same way as , for instance , a boat manufacturer might tailor his products differently depending on whether the customer plans an ocean voyage or an afternoon on the Norfolk Broads . |
| 4 | And he does so and he finds and squares the ball to his right , Alan made an advance for it but it 's was there first , put ball forward looking for and it 's just beyond the fair haired striker and races away to pick it up . |
| 5 | The ticks infest deer , and people are so worried by it they are culling deer and stopping vegetation reaching a height where ticks can crawl off on to people innocently walking by or blackberry picking . |
| 6 | AT the beginning of the 1980s passengers experienced great variances of comfort and style on InterCity and cross-country trains mainly according to whether they were travelling in one of the three basic designs that made up most of the fleet , one each from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 7 | As their retirement counselling manager explained , Legal and General has over one million people either paying towards or drawing out pensions , so it makes sense for them to offer pre-retirement courses which are paid for either by the individuals themselves or their employers . |
| 8 | And suddenly I realised that there was a whole lot more going on than I 'd even thought of . |
| 9 | Both county councils and the Secretary of State are somewhat equivocal on this point , the answer really depending on whether they ‘ like ’ the proposed development . |
| 10 | However , while the nature of the effect of feedback on gain is similar for each circuit arrangement , occurrence of a decreased or increased gain simply depending on whether the feedback is negative or positive , the character of the effect of feedback on the input and output impedance depends on whether the relevant circuit connection is series or parallel as well as on whether the feedback is negative or positive . |
| 11 | Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ? |
| 12 | Japanese producers of cars and many other products are in fact already behaving as if Fortress Europe is a reality — that is to say they are setting up full-scale manufacturing plants in Europe . |