Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Reagan forces claimed that the previous administration , anxious to avoid a tax increase in an election year , had left behind a sizeable budgetary deficit thereby forcing on the new governor the need to introduce legislation substantially raising some forms of taxation . |
| 2 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 3 | She mumbled beneath his mouth when his fingers pressed hard into her firm buttocks , and she felt a hot flame burn where his hand had rested , her mouth , her body , her mind all whirling with the incredible sensation that his unprovoked assault was arousing . |
| 4 | He had come to the village at last light bearing a balaclava helmet , a webbing belt and trousers , and a mess tin all belonging to the Presidential Guard . |
| 5 | At the foot of the pole the succulent body of the deer lay sprawled , blood still seeping from the severed arteries of its neck . |
| 6 | There is a pointed or heart shaped apical papilla with one pointed oral papilla on each side usually arising on the oral plates . |
| 7 | This force may be expressed in a person , ‘ old man ’ , ‘ old woman ’ or other names being given to the mythical figure supposedly dwelling in the last sheaf of wheat . |
| 8 | But it had a promenade deck , like the Hindenburg , and carried its passengers in considerable luxury even allowing for the natural exaggeration of the Imperial Airways Gazette : ‘ passengers making air journeys in the new Empire type flying boats of Imperial Airways not only express their admiration for the speed and quietness in flight of these air liners , and for the spaciousness of their saloons , but they also pay warm tributes to the efficiency of their catering arrangement ’ . |
| 9 | We saw that witchcraft could serve as a very important ancillary force subtly dealing with the manifest existence of evil . |
| 10 | ‘ Ethnic communities are reproducing a culture which the majority of British people have n't yet accepted as part of the British landscape , ’ says Dr Tariq Madood , a fellow at Nuffield College currently writing on the changing character of racism . |
| 11 | ‘ If corn etc. continuing at the high price 't is now , 't is to be left in the breast of the churchwardens and overseers to advance what they think proper — if corn etc. falls during the year no deductions to take place … ’ |
| 12 | It is a small Stately Home mostly dating from the eighteenth century , but bits of it go back to Elizabethan times . |
| 13 | With the Sun now passing through the independent sign of Aries and over the mid-heaven point of your solar chart , you should be at your most outgoing , ambitious and not unduly concerned if a major alteration takes place in the working pattern of your life . |
| 14 | Purposes beneficial to the community not falling within the preceding heads , which satisfy the following rules : |
| 15 | Muslims may step up action on Rushdie Joanna Coles finds Islamic community still raging at The Satanic Verses . |
| 16 | It is impossible to imagine such an accident ever happening to the meticulous and super-observant John Gould , but Darwin was no ornithologist , and , as a naturalist , he had had little training in the disciplines of collecting or identification . |
| 17 | ‘ Even when there is not an immediate project in view , we have regular regional meetings with the district and county councils , with a lot of initiative also coming from the Welsh Office and the Development Boards for Rural Wales , ’ says Mark Causebrook , director for Regional Railways ( Central Area ) . |
| 18 | With the war now raging in the Middle East we might feel tempted to question such certainty . |
| 19 | When the length of one side has been marked out on the moulding , again position the moulding in the mitre box and with the saw now travelling in the opposite guide slots , make a further mitre cut to complete one side . |
| 20 | Deguchi has made a detailed quantitative analysis of stimulated Raman backward scattering for the astrophysical conditions . |
| 21 | ‘ So many separate bits of evidence all pointing in the same direction . |
| 22 | He hurried on , sighting Clare and Underwood in the distance just turning off the main road up the hill . |
| 23 | I swam through houses where the sodden relics of habitation floated in the middle of rooms , a child 's shoe , a disintegrating book , a scrap of carpet , its red dye still leaking into the green water . |
| 24 | We have , then , student wittingness and intellectual maturity both pointing in the same direction . |
| 25 | The normal subjects displayed a biphasic response with coordinate increases in both serum and urine APGPR immunoeactivity both occurring within the first two hours after the meal . |
| 26 | This argument has its attractions , and I note by way of analogy with the statutory authority cases that it is only a nuisance inevitably resulting from the authorised works on which immunity is conferred . |
| 27 | I make no claim to supernatural powers , nor do I believe in guardian angels et cetera , but suddenly a vision of what is about to occur flashes vivid and uninvited , inside my forehead : the screams , the blood-covered sheets , Pa scurrying round the lawn snatching up the pink and white scraps , calling to his God then staring at the bloody morsels of his daughter as though they 're a jigsaw with missing bits . |
| 28 | It is astonishing that health ministersn now grappling with the financial disasters of the NHS internal market further down the line , should be so complacent in the early stages of their much-vaunted mixed economy of care . |
| 29 | ‘ In a largely illiterate society this oral epic singing also had the function roughly corresponding to the modern mass media — it spread the political news , much more slowly but perhaps not less reliably than the modern press , radio and television . ’ |
| 30 | The greatest examples have been lost completely : Old S. Peter 's , built in 330 by Constantine , was replaced by the great basilica now standing on the same site , S. John in Lateran has been considerably altered . |