Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 30 , on the other hand , a report by observers from the Paris-based International League of Human Rights claimed that " an extremely sophisticated method of fraud " had been partly responsible for the IDA getting twice as many National Assembly seats as the PPP with virtually the same share of the popular vote . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk in certain quarters about the pendulum swinging too far in the other direction , ’ said Mr Cooper . |
| 3 | Her office , situated off the corridor leading directly out of the reception area , was spacious and subtly feminine . |
| 4 | In the stillness there was the buzz of bees , bird sound — royal bluebirds darted all around the mountain — the hum of the Urubamba twisting far below . |
| 5 | There 's no danger of the river rising so fast it floods the course as it sometimes does but sadly as you can see , rain overnight and it 's raining now . |
| 6 | ‘ Weak and white , no sugar , ’ she snapped , forgetting her manners completely in her intense dislike of the man sitting far too close for comfort . |
| 7 | With the member countries of the EC getting ever closer , I was surprised that no mention was made of the confusion that exists in English speaking member countries between the professions of chemistry and pharmacy . |
| 8 | Try hooking up all your effects into the front of your amp and then compare the signal with that of the guitar going straight in , and you 'll see what I mean . |
| 9 | Those who found the events of the campaign interesting very consistently recorded higher levels of total approval . |
| 10 | Brown claimed it was himself and not Nicholas who was guilty of the assault adding somewhat implausibly that Charlie was ‘ pure as the driven snow ’ . |
| 11 | According to this approach , the object of science is , for instance , to gauge the probability of the sun rising tomorrow rather than the probability that it will always rise . |
| 12 | The danger which they believe to be increasing is precisely the danger of the war ending too soon . |
| 13 | Like many of his counterparts in the industry , Mr Evans sees some parts of the market performing slightly better . |
| 14 | Therefore , if a shot of the mother looking anxiously out of frame is immediately followed by one of her offspring , the two will connect in the minds of the viewers and another link in the story chain will have been formed . |
| 15 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 16 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |
| 17 | The arithmetic form of the phi scaling also potentially simplifies statistical analysis of grain size data , but confusion concerning the properties of the phi scale dimensions led to an accepted redefinition in which where d o , is the diameter of a 1 mm grain . |
| 18 | Then in the distance they heard the sound of a door shutting very quietly . |
| 19 | When he was half-way across the field , Hazel became aware of a hrududu approaching very fast on the other side of the further hedge . |
| 20 | They were speedily , if only temporarily , relieved of their worries when a head appeared amidst the gently rolling waves a short distance from the beach , which soon resolved into the — quite pleasing — shape of a woman struggling exhaustedly out of the sea and up the beach beside the jetty . |
| 21 | Yesterday Mr Kinnock presented a picture of a world changing so rapidly around the present government that the Prime Minister had become ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people ’ . |
| 22 | the chances are he 's gon na be even more of a nutter retaliating harder so that gets me . |
| 23 | This was a perfect frame of mind for chairing Northern Foods , a great supertanker of a business forging steadily ahead through the profitable waters of supermarket supply . |
| 24 | How deeply she 'd slept she did n't appreciate until she woke to the remote hoot of river traffic , and the sound of a pigeon cooing rhythmically just outside the window . |
| 25 | It leaves the road nearer the Dundonnell Hotel , where the stream issuing from the corrie passes beneath , and climbs in close company to bouldery ground above the dark waters of Loch Toll an Lochain with the cliffs of An Teallach towering immediately beyond in an intimidating wall of crags and scree . |
| 26 | In tin and copper mining , as in coal mining , the demands of an industry becoming increasingly more capitalistic , as mines went deeper and draining technologies became more costly , meant a greater commitment from labour . |
| 27 | They taunted him like a rope dangling just out of reach . |
| 28 | He felt like an infant staggering uncertainly out of doors for the first time into the infinitude of the universe . |
| 29 | I did take you for a couple staying there together , and normally I would have retreated smartly and come back here again , but for what had already happened . |
| 30 | Sachs compared subjects ' performance with a variety of target sentence positions varying from 0 syllables delay ( for a sentence which had been heard immediately before the recognition test ) to 160 syllables delay ( for a sentence occurring relatively early in the passage ) . |