Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
2 | Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties . |
3 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
4 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
5 | POP mogul Pete Waterman is turning his multi-million empire upside down searching for a spy . |
6 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
7 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
8 | Any loss naturally arising from the breach ; |
9 | The future Quaker abolitionist , James Cropper of Liverpool , accepted the necessity ‘ for a humble , dependent state of mind naturally arising from the knowledge of the superior wisdom and goodness of the will and ways of God to our own ’ and found gloom about the future banished . |
10 | while mounting into or dismounting from or travelling in any private motor car not belonging to the Policyholder or wife/husband and not hired to either under a hire purchase agreement |
11 | But today the eyes were vibrant with an anticipatory light and Lady Merchiston sat up against her pillows , her glance alternately flicking to the window and following her companion as she moved about the room , tidying up . |
12 | The news has shocked a fashion industry already reeling from the recession . |
13 | Dugal Nisbet-Smith , director of the Newspaper Society , an organisation representing mainly English and Welsh provincial titles , has said 17.5 per cent VAT would be a catastrophe for an industry already reeling from the recession . |
14 | If a threat in the dark not amounting to a threat to kill within s.16 , OAPA , is not an assault the result in relation to unlawful act or constructive manslaughter is this . |
15 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
16 | Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres . |
17 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
18 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
19 | She was caught without defences , her mind still playing with the idea of being his darling girl . |
20 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |
21 | Whitlock smiled politely , his mind still reeling from the way she had dissected his cover story , piece by piece , until there was nothing left for him to hide behind . |
22 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) was also deserted , the transport and the staff had just left , except the jeep still standing in the driveway . |
23 | In the United States in the 1960s the political will to get to the trough of federal aid resulted in the Model Cities programme rapidly expanding from a focus on 66 metropolitan centres to a total of almost 140 cities spread across the nation ( Levine , 1989 ) . |
24 | A partial and passionate critic also writing in the middle of the nineteenth century was John Ruskin , as devoted to Turner as Baudelaire was to Delacroix . |
25 | The Sun 's headline also focusing on the victim produces a different slant , for Hitch-girl ‘ spurned sex' again hints that ‘ hitch-girls ’ are normally willing partners . |
26 | A whole armoury of biblical interpretation accompanies this mentality — one side often majoring on the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22 and the other side of Thomas 's doubt in John 20 . |
27 | ‘ The money people will have learned their lesson after the Arne Glimcher flop ’ , said a journalist now working on a script about another art world story . |
28 | With the club now languishing at the bottom of the table they were in desperate need of a football visionary , a new footballing messiah . |
29 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
30 | The note , from a private Indian lawyer reportedly acting at the behest of one of the middlemen who received pay-offs , was understood to have been delivered by Solanki on Feb. 1 while attending the World Economic Forum in Davos . |