Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More handsome than ever in his morning suit , his black hair gleaming with a brilliant sheen , and his eyes , his once dark and brooding eyes , now alight with the glow of love in them , Marc came swiftly to her side . |
| 2 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 3 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 4 | To get onto the glacier you first traverse the top of the mountain , then sideslip into a gully hanging onto a thick rope . |
| 5 | Continuing through the scattered little climatic resort the road leads to the Heiligenschwendi Klinik , a large hospital originally treating respiratory diseases but in more recent times catering for a wide variety of patients . |
| 6 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 7 | Sleek , with skin gleaming like a rich satin — |
| 8 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 9 | From that experience , he derived an ideal of stage unity stemming from a close collaboration ‘ regardless as far as possible of individual prestige and personality ’ , which was reinforced by working in the Group Theatre of the thirties with Auden , Isherwood , Spender , Britten and others . |
| 10 | But we still have to train people to be able to cook under any conditions — a young soldier can often find himself on his own in the field cooking for a given number of people . |
| 11 | It is far easier to imagine Ms or Mr Trim tucking into a low-fat meal , perhaps featuring fish or chicken accompanied by vegetables . |
| 12 | And you do n't have to spend hours struggling with a awkward pins while you get hot over the collar . |
| 13 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 14 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of a 28-seat House of Assembly popularly elected every five years , and a 21-seat appointed Senate . |
| 15 | The Kingdom of Thailand ( formerly Siam ) is a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament consisting of a 261-member Senate appointed by the monarch , currently King Bhumipol Adulyadej , on the recommendation of the Prime Minister , and a 347-member House of Representatives elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 16 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 17 | This example has all the characteristics of a sentence occurring within a larger piece of text , and illustrates quite clearly the need for a ‘ previous discourse ’ co-ordinate , as well as the more obvious ‘ time ’ and ‘ place ’ co-ordinates . |
| 18 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 19 | He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’ |
| 20 | MADONNA , EMF , GEORGE MICHAEL , LISA STANSFIELD and SEAL are among artists contributing to a new AIDS benefit LP . |
| 21 | For example , if the business is heavily dependent on numerous long-term contracts , a purchaser may decide to investigate the contracts equating to a specified percentage of the turnover of the business plus one or two minor contracts . |
| 22 | Then in their wake , a stately schooner under full sail — Sister Cooney bobbing like a fretful tug in attendance — she hove in sight , a strongly-timbered woman , solid and soundly ballasted . |
| 23 | Barn owls nesting in a small cave in Somerset ( see opposite ) produced a bone assemblage of 5161 bones from 113 prey individuals ( see p. 96 and Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 24 | He spent months recovering in a private clinic in Bordeaux . |
| 25 | Interestingly , the department consisting of a single planner has his only service , Textline , on his desk . |
| 26 | What is the point of having Van Goch hanging in a public building if people with disabilities are not provided with proper access facilities . |
| 27 | In his next symphony , No 32 in G , K.318 , he reverted to the old Italian sinfonia form — a shorter , single-movement piece consisting of a slow section sandwiched between two allegros . |
| 28 | For stocking stitch knitting on a standard gauge machine , this often means no weights and , for pattern knitting , just the claw weights . |
| 29 | Details of the new force , which was expected to become operational by the end of 1994 , revealed that it would consist of three elements : a Rapid Reaction Force consisting of a multinational corps under UK command ; Main Defence Forces consisting of six multinational corps ( two under German command , one each under US , Netherlands and Belgian command and another under rotating German and Danish command ) ; and Augmentation Forces or reserves . |
| 30 | In Scotland , there are 580,000 homes consisting of a single adult over 16 . |