Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line .
2 These reveal that TSP concentrations have halved since the 1960s. with the downward trend showing some levelling off during the 1980s ( figure 8.7 ) .
3 More recent extensions include office units built along with extra hardstanding , around 1980 , all of this blending in with the character of the remainder of the site .
4 They we were half riding , half pushing up into the mountains .
5 There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below .
6 The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's .
7 Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts , some dating back to the tenth century .
8 Most of the alleged incidents occurred during 1985–89 , with some dating back to the late 1970s .
9 A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather .
10 The conditions are made up of a myriad of separate agreements , some going back to the 1920s .
11 Nor is there anything mystical going on in the evolution of real animals and plants .
12 But behind him there was a large array of saints , customs , observances , and claims of one kind or another going back to a remote past .
13 This narrowing down of the focus of the original control theory seems to constitute a switch of attention from offenders to situations .
14 So this damping down of the sensory input when attention moves elsewhere can occur very early in the pathway from the sense organ to the brain .
15 First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas .
16 Tithonus creates a sense of emotional anguish by Tennyson 's use of inversion between lines five and six , ‘ Me only cruel immortality/consumes ’ : This breaking up of the main image of the poem suggests that Tithonus has been captured by immortality .
17 This breaking down of the large molecules to smaller ones is the job of enzymes .
18 Oh it took some sorting out on the next morning .
19 As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three .
20 Daniels ' burning ambition to be a magician came as an 11-year-old tinkering around with a box of magic given to him as a present , and it has paid off .
21 I funny staring back at the car park , the car park , and the
22 Red Bank Road Bispham , with open rack 134 coming up from the Depot to go into service as an afternoon ‘ special ’ to the Gynn .
23 Yeah , so you 'd anticipate some coming in on the A fifty nine , if you went that far north ,
24 I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type
25 Oh , this coming back to an empty house , Rupert thought , when he had seen her safely up to her door .
26 Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage .
27 This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy .
28 This handing over of the Conservative party , in Denis Healey 's phrase , ‘ from the estate owners to the estate agents ’ , has been a process upper class Tories have watched with distaste .
29 That is , to the extent that the responses were the result of critical reflection they clearly show that left policies were lacking in credibility and attractiveness , yet insofar as the responses represented an uncritical carrying over of the ‘ media ’ line this would seem to suggest that the concerns of the left failed to strike the masses as of immediate practical importance ; the left policies can not have appeared to meet the practical needs of the working class , or else the Labour identifiers polled would not have been content to reiterate the media line with regard to those policies .
30 In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen .
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