Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loaf-tin shaped varieties are seldom tasty or worth eating and are often cooked without the flavoursome larding of fat . |
| 2 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 3 | Whereas I teach my dogs to disregard game birds and deer , the lurcher is very competent at acquiring the skills of poaching and is usually the animal to accompany deer and game-stealing gangs wherever they operate . |
| 4 | Instead of withdrawing and being generally anti-social , as I had been , I began to argue with people — teachers and pupils alike — and to disrupt other people 's activities for the sake of disruption . |
| 5 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 6 | The sun had set and dusk , like some nocturnal beast , had crept out of hiding and was stealthily licking its paws . |
| 7 | Roles are characteristic ways of behaving and are especially significant in group and team-work ( see Groups on page 77 and Teams on page 161 ) . |
| 8 | A two year study is to take place which will include the consideration of methods of killing that are more acceptable than stabbing or clubbing . |
| 9 | These include cortisol ( which rises later in the night as the body prepares for waking and is strongly influenced by the body clock ) ; antidiuretic hormone ( which is one of the ways in which fluid formation by the kidney is reduced at night , see Chapter 6 ) ; and the male sex hormone , testosterone , as well as some of the hormones that control the reproductive cycle in women . |
| 10 | But Bankside is nevertheless a sound structure which , like the best mills of the Industrial Revolution , is well worth preserving and is perfectly capable of adaptation for a new commercial use . |
| 11 | The discharge may interfere with feeding and is highly infectious to anyone who comes into contact with it , apart from its mother . |
| 12 | He promptly went into hiding but was eventually captured . |
| 13 | Bernard went into hiding and was only heard of again when news reached the Israeli Mossad that he had been assassinated in a car-bomb attack in Beirut . |
| 14 | Hare wondered whether geographers could get away with posing as being simultaneously earth scientists and social scientists and this is what did happen in the ensuing decade . |
| 15 | The splitting and penetration of the bone of the skull was slightly more advanced than shown earlier , but the difference is not great enough to be worth illustrating and is still equivalent to stage 1 weathering ( Behrensmeyer , 1978 ) . |
| 16 | The leaves of palms in general are often used for thatching and are relatively durable compared with most tropical foliage . |
| 17 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 18 | Resistance comes from mobile electrons losing momentum in scattering and is usually inevitable except in superconductivity . |
| 19 | He also planned to entertain at the Priory his neighbours and friends , and here it was possible that he received fresh warnings of danger , as on finishing his dinner he hurriedly set off for Halling and was scarcely clear of the city when a riot broke out and the mob tried to pillage the Priory . |
| 20 | Its main disadvantage , the sorry state the diagram reaches when manually drawn out versions are used for monitoring and are continually amended , is no longer a disadvantage when a computer is used . |
| 21 | They are a race of roses that are well worth exploring and are yet another example of the inexhaustible resources of the rose to come up with something new and different . |