Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer . |
| 2 | Susan had come up to them , and stood still in horror at the sight of her sister apparently embracing a total stranger . |
| 3 | The cells form a sheet just one cell thick enclosing a hollow interior . |
| 4 | An occasional court appearance can become enshrined as mere ritual ceremony totally encapsulating a particular moment of time which can be easily forgotten . |
| 5 | The £13 billion bid for BAT ( formerly known as British American Tobacco ) in 1989 was the largest bid ever involving a British company . |
| 6 | On Sunday all was quiet , but on Monday about 1,500 assembled in Sunderland , broke a great number of windows , destroyed the lights and inner works of the assembly room and broke to pieces the two figures over the gateway of the entrance thereof representing a mendicant sailor and charity . |
| 7 | Further , the word ‘ communion ’ , a term again involving a verbal identification of Church and Eucharist , was so much used by the Council that it has subsequently been seen to express the Council 's ecclesiology most profoundly and has been made great use of in such documents as those of ARCIC . |
| 8 | THE CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding Amnesty 's adoption as a prisoner of conscience of Vic Williams , the British soldier currently serving a 14-month prison sentence for desertion , are to be fully aired at the AGM on 10–12 April . |
| 9 | This approach she adopted in all her subsequent work thereby introducing a revolutionary style of attack on problems of algebra . |
| 10 | Hazel slipped out of the burrow into the run and at once came upon Strawberry busily thumping a hind leg on the hard earth floor . |
| 11 | SIR — Is Labour 's manifesto really promising a free vote on a proposal to ‘ ban the hunting of live quarry ’ ( report , April 1 ) ? |
| 12 | My thoughts keep returning to the fact that a session immediately following a good catch the night before is rarely successful . |
| 13 | North overcame the West 2-0 rather more easily , West hardly mounting a worthwhile attack . |
| 14 | A motorist was freed by fire fighters after being trapped in his wrecked car for an hour yesterday following a head-on crash on the A64 Scarborough to Malton road at Knapton . |
| 15 | Article 1 sets out its purpose , viz. ‘ to ensure the continuation of farming thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas … ’ |
| 16 | I still remember the dirty liquid in my school test tube suddenly turning a brilliant turquoise , then shocking pink and then back to grey all in the space of a few seconds . |
| 17 | We got a free bus pass and we , we used our money to , which I 'm glad we did with my husband only having a few years . |
| 18 | The purpose of this is to enable regular discussions to take place thus developing a good working relationship within which problems can be talked through . |
| 19 | Bridge two at Keighley was still under repair thus necessitating a cautious exit from the station by all trains . |
| 20 | Gen. Chaovalit resigned his post ostensibly following a verbal exchange with a Cabinet colleague over the issue of corruption . |
| 21 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 22 | Keith Pattinson said : ‘ In opening these new branches , we are concentrating on our core business namely providing a personal service at a local level . ’ |
| 23 | There is one rather funny one , I think : ‘ Elizabeth Taylor was seen in town today wearing a yellow dress , and a group of children at the bus stop went towards her and boarded her . ’ |
| 24 | It is in these situations that multiplex PCR would have a role , with one single reaction potentially detecting a whole range of pathogens . |
| 25 | A little after the end of the war when people were beginning to relax and reminisce about blackouts and air-raids , yesterday 's terror and agony only adding a little zest to the stones . |
| 26 | Beggars , when you give them money , bless you and wish you good luck , a gold tooth flashing surprisingly in a dusky smile suddenly lighting a dirty face . |
| 27 | The sight of a tiny warbler frantically feeding a fledgling cuckoo twice its size is one of the most incongruous in nature . |
| 28 | Right FIGURE 4 Over a lightly brushed area of red oxide I hurriedly scumbled cadmium red deep using a flat hog haired brush . |
| 29 | Zuccarelli will not discuss what is inside his ‘ Ringo ’ recording head instead expounding a psycho-acoustic theory to disguise what engineers suspect is a simple advance in old-fashioned binaural recording . |
| 30 | She broke it , rather like a hostess dutifully encouraging a shy dinner-guest . |