Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also during this year Captain H.M. Williams was selected to command the 1 st Bucks team of sixty men , to compete for a prize offered by Lord Wantage for field firing at the Home Counties Brigade Camp at Churn , and of this team ( which won the competition ) thirty-two were Wolverton men . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's quite a bit happening in the IT services area here . |
| 3 | All the ‘ ins and outs ’ are logged in a large collection of files which , when glancing through , look like a history of British aviation , with such names as British Aircraft Co , Fairey Aviation , Fields Aviation , Gloster Aircraft Co appearing in the purchasing ledgers . |
| 4 | And no , that 's not the wind wailing round the library windows . |
| 5 | Mail relating to the mail messages for the current user , the New figure shows the number of unread mail messages and the Old figure shows the number of mail messages which are still retained in LIFESPAN but which have already been printed or read by the user . |
| 6 | SHOPPERS need have no fear walking under the glass roofs of shopping centres in spite of reports of shattered panes injuring bystanders , a spokesman for The Forge shopping centre said in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 7 | Clean the test tube , add the right amount of chemical according to the textbook instructions , heat it up , watch the colour change on the litmus paper , a straightforward sequence of steps that has been performed by thousands before us and will be repeated by as many after . |
| 8 | Every sound seemed a potential threat — the wind rustling in the pine trees , the flapping of a startled bird 's wings , the jackals ' baleful howling as they patiently awaited the abandoned carcass . |
| 9 | Her eyes are mud-coloured ; her eyes changed hue according to the contact lenses she wore ; he never looked her in the eye . |
| 10 | Guy Sterne would be about as much fun to be with as one of the barracuda swimming in the coral reefs around the island . |
| 11 | In my discussions with the regional councils for sport and recreation — There is a football hooligan shouting from the Opposition Benches — |
| 12 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
| 13 | It is not difficult to tell from casual chat at court who does what and after dealing with a few claims you soon get to know who is on the other side acting for the insurance companies . |
| 14 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 15 | The snow adhering to the car windows created a sepulchral gloom inside , and Robyn spent several minutes brushing it off before she attempted to start the engine . |
| 16 | It was quite funny yesterday , because , he , when I went out in the garden there was a football nestling in the rose bushes , I heaved it back over the fence , thirty seconds later the two boys came roaring out of the house , and about thirty seconds after that |
| 17 | One of the biggest potential costs is the building of under-road ducting for the speed sensors . |
| 18 | Ben looked at the yellow light coming from the downstairs windows until the curtains were drawn . |
| 19 | If the wavelength composition of the light falling on a scene changes then the wavelengths reflected by , say , a red area will change accordingly but so will the wavelengths reflected by an adjacent green area . |
| 20 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 21 | Lifting heavy objects , gaining weight , sneezing or coughing violently , and even constipation can exacerbate an existing weakness and result in a painful mass of intestine bursting through the groin muscles . |
| 22 | Hugh asked after his father-in-law had wandered off into the shadows at the end of the terrace and they heard his stick tapping along the stone floors . |
| 23 | The Government will amend the law relating to the employment rights of pregnant women to give effect to the EC Directive on Pregnant Workers . |
| 24 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 25 | The UK car component industry has been undergoing severe contraction owing to the rationalisation strategies of UK assemblers and the increasing tendency for foreign-owned assemblers to supply the market through imports . |
| 26 | of green waiting in the wheat stripes each winter . |
| 27 | There are some excellent light milds , though : McMullen 's AK from Hertford keeps the mild flag flying in the Home Counties . |
| 28 | Dorothea looked at the garden , at the sun shining between the apple trees , remembering her friend . |
| 29 | As usual there is chicken lolling in the metal trays of the dining room , like unhealthy continentals in a mineral bath . |
| 30 | The Centre is carrying out some work concentrating on the housing circumstances of particular disadvantaged groups . |