Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [adj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect it will become a more dominant issue than value-for-money , whether in the public or private sectors , absorbing though these now seem to many politicians of all shades of opinion . |
| 2 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 3 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 4 | That they were going and that nearly killed me , that nearly killed me because I knew then this was serious . |
| 5 | In Hart v. Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 54 , the sheriff reached the same conclusion , but for different reasons , holding that 17 effectively repealed the concluding words of the proviso to 5.6(3) on the ground that they were merely an erroneous re-enactment of the corresponding part of the 1959 Act ; see also Clive v. Nithsdale District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 113 . |
| 6 | Generally , the advice on difficult areas of adjudication was unchallenging and this again suggests the need for an experienced tutor . |
| 7 | The percentage of patients with oesophagitis was similar in those taking and those not taking bronchodilators ( Fig 3 ; p=NS ) . |
| 8 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 9 | So we have , in effect , a situation where the regime wants to change without changing and that often happens in power relationships . |
| 10 | For a long time historians were happy to talk in terms of a basic struggle between Whigs and Tories during the reigns of William and Anne , whilst recognising that this occasionally broke down , and that for certain periods political battles were fought out along Court–Country lines . |
| 11 | Cells multiply by dividing and this usually requires cell growth , the cells doubling in size before dividing in two . |
| 12 | Pauline Leyshon said her clothes were burning and some actually melted on her body . |