Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is there anything mystical going on in the evolution of real animals and plants . |
| 2 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 3 | I have n't spoken to erm , I mean I only thought this coming along in the street , whether there 's anybody sort of notable , I mean is it , is , is , is there any value in actually having a figurehead type chairman you know , sort of celebrity type |
| 4 | In view of the abrupt falling on in the numbers of husbandmen above £20 , plus the fact that this figure coincides roughly with the wealth of the average yeoman , farmers assessed at and above it can pragmatically be counted as yeomen . |
| 5 | ‘ I never knew there was so much going on in the world , ’ she said to John one day . |
| 6 | There was very little going on in the neighbourhood , or even further afield , of which Purvis was not apprised . |
| 7 | It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant , though the endless peeing , he wrote , the endless getting up in the middle of the night when the ice clung to the windowpanes and the taps were frozen , that was more unpleasant than pleasant , but it was not that , he wrote , these things - will not change , my bladder will not improve and next winter the ice will still cling to the panes and the taps will still freeze , but I will not notice them . |
| 8 | You know , I mean , er , that is why it 's all coming out in the books , that 's why the , all these men , she 's sort of saying I 'll get my own back now , you know ! |
| 9 | So there are a whole range of different origins to these particles but they 're all floating around in the sea water . |
| 10 | However , for human visualization it is easiest to think in terms of a family of curved lines leaving the fish through a series of portholes spaced along the front half of the body , all curving round in the water and diving into the fish again at the tip of its tail . |
| 11 | The alternation of scenes in that play establishes verse as the appropriate medium for the Greek leaders engaged in the vita activa in their council-scene ( I.iii. ) , while for those hanging out in the vita inactiva in Achilles ' tent — Thersites , Ajax , Patroclus , Achilles — all too often the medium is a scabrous unheroic prose . |
| 12 | How the Scottish paragliders imagined this sport would adapt to the arctic , savage , gale-torn mountains of home is anybody 's guess , but they appear to be quite happy flapping around in the rain before plummeting out of the sky like Icarus and skidding to an inelegant halt face first in small lochans . |
| 13 | Those wondering round in a daze and being peculiar . |
| 14 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 15 | Have half a dozen of those floating around in the garden . |
| 16 | The cruise line industry is multinational in terms of career opportunities , and therefore the growth of the industry in the USA is of direct concern to all those setting out in a hotel , catering or leisure-orientated career . |
| 17 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 18 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 19 | He consumed a bottle of Frascati and smoked two cigarettes , then turned green , almost passed out , and fell asleep sitting up in the chair . |
| 20 | All that sitting around in a circle . |
| 21 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 22 | I like some of the recordings too , because they are absolutely ‘ as done ’ , without any messing about in the studio . |
| 23 | It would n't in the least surprise me if there 's something nasty going on in the Ingard empire . |
| 24 | It was obviously a send-up of The Face but it nevertheless reflected a certain smartening up in the band . |
| 25 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 26 | Some are able to walk with a support when they are inside the Home but feel more secure going out in a wheelchair . |