Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fran had n't expected to sleep , but she did , deeply and dreamlessly , and awoke to the sound of birds singing and sunlight streaming in through the window . |
| 2 | A wire balloon should be fitted into the top of each downpipe to prevent birds nesting and debris getting down the pipe |
| 3 | There was mass saluting , mass mumbling and mass pouring out of the door . |
| 4 | She heard the sound of twigs cracking as Bridget came up behind her . |
| 5 | ‘ I share with David an ’ he 's bound to keep comin' in to see what we'se doin' and Edward has n't had a room of his own ever . |
| 6 | Under the 1985 Pressler Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act , US aid to Pakistan was dependent on the President certifying that Pakistan did not possess a " nuclear explosive device " . |
| 7 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 8 | Last week their friends and relatives staged a demonstration alleging that police covered up evidence that would have supported that claim . |
| 9 | PERSONNEL POWER THE FIGHT AGAINST FRAUD Ensuring that employees do not compromise computer security can be a matter of putting appropriate personnel procedures in place |
| 10 | At the April 24 ACE Executive Advisory Board meeting that Compaq did n't attend because it knew it was going to resign , ACE decided to invite the Open Software Foundation , a non-member , to participate in some fashion . |
| 11 | In particular , principals have suffered the largest fall suggesting that fees declined relatively more than salaries . |
| 12 | Now as a traditional climber I find the emergence of these new activities such as sport abseiling and sport climbing somewhat sterilised and regulated , but I suppose there is plenty of room in Britain for all offshoots and variations of the parent activity , and we must accept these developments with open arms as we did bolts and competitions . |
| 13 | Moreover , it seems that their motivation to perform behaviour such as wing flapping and wing stretching actually increases during confinement in a battery cage . |
| 14 | In Use The main facilities Mainlan offers are File sharing and Printer Sharing together with an Electronic Mail system . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's nice to be able to say that I saw that big right coming but Ruddock did n't , in fact I do n't think he saw anything that came his way . |
| 16 | Beef cattle rearing and sheep predominate over large upland areas in the north , northwest and northeast . |
| 17 | Some stories saying that Gravier has recently been seen in Miami and Argentina are advanced to support this theory . ) |
| 18 | So if you 've got a violin lesson this morning seeing as Susan did n't have her flute lesson this week . |
| 19 | Dingles at Exeter staged a fun event with staff dressing as rabbits to give away badges , sweets , pencil sets , a Peter Rabbit video and even carrot cake . |
| 20 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 21 | But they ca n't see trains coming and drivers do n't know there is anyone inside the box . |
| 22 | Is Dr Campbell saying that Christ did not really take our sin upon himself but acted as if he did ? |
| 23 | It is in this kind of work that the distinction between policy making and implementation becomes so unclear . |
| 24 | Whether it is the kind of high quality housing that Myra lives in , or the rotten housing that the people studied by Coates and Silburn in the Nottingham slum of St Ann 's once lived in , and which people in leaking tower blocks continue to live in ( Campbell , 1984 ) , the end product is work . |
| 25 | I think they are settling for next season hoping that Leeds do n't have a terrible season this year . |
| 26 | Negotiations for the player 's £60,000 transfer to Parkhead are ongoing with Bangor insisting that Byrne plays out the season here . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the levels of other biliary electrolytes did not differ among patients with gall stones and controls suggesting that contamination had not occurred . |
| 28 | Letters followed from various retired judges and lawyers agreeing that juries performed better when they were ‘ middle aged , middle class and male ’ . |
| 29 | And for three decades we 've given our clients a process for better decision making and problem solving up and down the organization . |
| 30 | Bush and Gorbachev issued a joint statement demanding that Iraq pull out of Kuwait forthwith , and calling on the world community to adhere to UN sanctions against Iraq . |