Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] and [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A trip around the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge , a visit to Alcatraz , riding the cable cars and dining out on Pier 49 are just some of the attractions of this jewel in California 's crown . |
| 2 | I remember opening my hood , disconnecting my oxygen and R/T connections and standing up in the cockpit . |
| 3 | Police officers of various ranks and specialisms came and went all day , checking for forensic evidence relating to the kidnap , intercepting some telephone calls and listening in to others . |
| 4 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 5 | My waiters were getting $60 a day tips and driving round in Porsches . ’ |
| 6 | It has been suggested that starting in mid Devonian times and continuing on through the Carboniferous , a mid European ocean of uncertain width extended roughly along the line of the English Channel and then on eastwards into the European continent . |
| 7 | This covers a remarkably wide field starting at the installation , calibration and purely functional end of flight recorders and leading on through their recovery from the wreckage and the techniques of repairing and reading damaged recordings to the ultimate interpretation of the spoken words and environmental noises in the cockpit and the determination of the aerodynamic implications of recorded data . |
| 8 | Palmer 's first priority is to ‘ reduce unnecessary expense ’ , and further staff cuts and scaling down of manufacturing facilities worldwide are expected . |
| 9 | Enhancement of visitor facilities and setting up of major displays . |
| 10 | After decades when little change had taken place , most — if not all — the newspaper groups have introduced plans to modernize their plants by introducing new technology , reducing manning levels and moving out of central London to the East End . |
| 11 | Once the veneer of hunt balls and dressing up for the occasion is stripped away all you have left is a very cruel activity which is a disgrace to those of us who live in the modern world . |
| 12 | ‘ The training year follows much the same pattern as the conventional academic year , with the main intakes arriving at the beginning of the spring , summer and autumn terms and passing out after the respective twenty-eight- or forty-four-week courses . |
| 13 | It 's their first since splitting with Phonogram Records and taking up with Compulsion ( a new label started by the A&R man who had signed them to Phonogram in the first place ) , and shows the band in muscular form . |
| 14 | They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes . |
| 15 | From this he reckoned the underground passage was now clear of the house foundations and heading out towards the outer fence . |
| 16 | And so began one of the most successful record production partnerships of the decade — the glitzy music biz rewards of which are an impressive collection of gold discs , hanging along the stairwell at Street Mansions and continuing up into the studio , where they are accompanied by a blown-up print of The Beatles hard at work in the studio on the ‘ Let It Be ’ sessions . |