Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He had long since stopped noticing the foul smell inside the little concrete box , or the damp grittiness of the floor against his cheek , and he heard only distantly the rolling crash of thunder . |
2 | Most radio stations in non-NPN states had already stopped taking the national news from FRCN in Lagos , and so it is probable that they too ignored the event . |
3 | Lightweight leather boots had been creeping into the market since the 1970s or even earlier , but were not made using the new technology . |
4 | In Long island , New York , another teenage boy was critically injured trying the same thing . |
5 | A leafy retreat is an excellent goal for a small town garden , but it is best made acknowledging the urban setting , using un-wild plants such as bamboo , acanthus , fig , vine , alchemilla , euphorbia , wisteria . |
6 | The Alliance were briefly the controlling party in local government and just missed taking the Parliamentary seat at the 1987 election . |
7 | The allegory is easily understood using the following key : |
8 | There seemed nothing at all , no way of climbing back on to the free wheel of conversation they had somehow set going the other night . |
9 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
10 | The Hereford , Hay and Brecon Railway was completed by Welsh contractor Thomas Savin — who had just finished building the main line through Welshpool — and opened in stages between 1863 and 1864 . |
11 | Gerry 's ship had been in the Albert Dock and they had just finished papering the front bedroom . |
12 | He was the only living person whom she had ever heard using the vocative case . |
13 | The DC can be further updated using the same option , 2.1.2 — Update DC or can be submitted for assessment using option 2.1.3 — Submit DC . |
14 | The fed state replaces fasting activity during ingestion of a nutrient meal and this motility state was also examined using the MBEST scanning technique . |
15 | In 1988 the Kenyan government openly considered abolishing the secret ballot in order to dissuade opposition voters from declaring their position . |
16 | EOG changes themselves are to the same order as EEG changes — up to 150 microvolts , and they are typically recorded using the same time constants and level of amplification as the EEG channel . |
17 | Following the revolution of 1905 some of them even recommended liquidating the revolutionary organization altogether . |
18 | Mr Cranley claimed at a well attended meeting the following day , Sunday , which was also attended by public representatives that the workmen were subject to mob rule and intimidation . |
19 | Someone even remembered seeing the famous photograph of Frankie on Trigger , his circus pony . |
20 | The same response was then produced withholding the visual display . |
21 | Optimality was then restored using the dual simplex method with implicit upper bounds . |
22 | The collection of characters Γ y is a reducible representation , and is then reduced using the following equation . |
23 | The cylinder ( possibly of paper ) is then removed leaving the rubber spring . |
24 | Most building materials are porous to some extent , although in a well-designed and properly maintained building the absorbed moisture can evaporate harmlessly to the outside . |
25 | The Labour Party , led by Karmenu ( Carmelo ) Mifsud Bonnici , was opposed to full membership and instead favoured strengthening the existing association agreement . |
26 | This loss of entropy can be conveniently illustrated using the simple lattice model shown in figure 8.11 . |
27 | This , too , was eventually extinguished leaving the entire church in darkness . |
28 | Anthony Phillips may have quit Genesis twenty-two years ago , but he has never stopped exploring the musical landscape that was once uniquely their own . |
29 | The stationmaster 's office turned out to be ideally situated overlooking the busy concourse . |
30 | There was n't the slightest sign that a few hours earlier she had collapsed in paroxysms of tears and seriously considered calling the whole thing off . |