Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | He spent months recovering in a private clinic in Bordeaux . |
| 4 | What is the point of having Van Goch hanging in a public building if people with disabilities are not provided with proper access facilities . |
| 5 | Nathan shook his head , his mouth twisting in a humourless smile . |
| 6 | So look at the pattern , count the maximum number of marked squares occurring in a vertical line and then double that to calculate the effect of the double-length light . |
| 7 | Adair argues that any working situation produces three sets of needs for the people involved and therefore effective leadership is determined by the variables operating in a given situation : |
| 8 | More intriguingly , the features may not be Doppler in origin , but due to up- and down-shifted frequencies by Raman scattering in a dense plasma . |
| 9 | The police have an interest in the investigation of a sex crime developing in a particular way . |
| 10 | A cat lay outside the front door , one of its eyes protruding in a grotesque bubble with the iris leering darkly from its rim . |
| 11 | Beef and store cattle and fat cows maintained their recent prices , with dairy stock selling in a brighter trade . |
| 12 | She 's so close I can smell her , and see the little nerve twitching in a secret place behind her ear , and hear her breathing just slightly faster than before . |
| 13 | Some handwriting may be difficult to read due to a lack of visual clarity , but most readers can perform some sort of recognition resulting in a meaningful interpretation . |
| 14 | The disadvantage is that a large number of animals feeding in a small area will exhaust the food supply much more rapidly than would a small number . |
| 15 | They are best told apart by the differences in head shape — labiatum has thicker lips and citrinellum has a larger hump resulting in a steeper forehead profile . |
| 16 | AN RAF dummy bomb fell into a crowd of German pacifists demonstrating in a military exercise area yesterday , slightly injuring a woman . |
| 17 | I remember the minister 's housekeeper , Miss Lumb , calling to see if she could do anything to help , and the four-year-old Ann saying in a plaintive voice , ‘ There is n't any room for Miss Lump in this bed ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You can see the line of the Pennine Fault running in a south-easterly direction , ’ he went on . |
| 19 | He whispered a long coil of Chinese phrases to his boy helper , and the child looked up at me , almond eyes shining in a brim-shadowed face . |
| 20 | The computer : 1 always offers an encouraging , positive response ; 2 provides a successful experience ; 3 lets the child work at his or her own level ; 4 treats the child as an individual ; 5 gives instant feedback which is essential for correcting bad habits ; 6 presents reading in a peer-approved way ; 7 is highly motivating . |
| 21 | He wore the flying helmet he had affected on the morning of his arrival and those goggles which , when removed , had left him looking like a barn owl , white-ringed eyes blinking in a smut-flecked face . |
| 22 | At the thought of Penry she stretched , cat-like , her mouth curving in a dreamy smile . |
| 23 | She would blush furiously , her pale complexion flooding red so that he actually imagined her blood flowing in a hot tide to the surface of her flesh ; a thought he found exciting . |
| 24 | At the start of the rehearsal he saw one of the violinists playing in a slovenly way , with the neck of his instrument pointing towards the floor . |
| 25 | You 're going to tonight , ’ Lucenzo pointed out wryly , his mouth lifting in a fascinating curve . |
| 26 | Flashback to 30 March 1968 : two kids playing in a deserted tenement block discover a corpse . |
| 27 | As we have seen , the Chicago sociologists had every reason to be concerned with gangs engaging in a criminal behaviour . |
| 28 | In the main , they will be private sector employers operating in a free market and looking to secure an edge over their competitors . |
| 29 | In the main , they will be private sector employers operating in a free market and looking to secure an edge over their competitors . |
| 30 | These commands can be used to draw maps and graphs by a programmer writing in a high-level language such as FORTRAN or BASIC ; the D and M commands are used to draw line segments , given the x , y coordinates of the start and end of each segment , while the P command is used to add annotation . |