Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More handsome than ever in his morning suit , his black hair gleaming with a brilliant sheen , and his eyes , his once dark and brooding eyes , now alight with the glow of love in them , Marc came swiftly to her side . |
| 2 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 3 | In its original form the Bill made provision for a single ballot , the decision resting on a simple majority of those voting . |
| 4 | To get onto the glacier you first traverse the top of the mountain , then sideslip into a gully hanging onto a thick rope . |
| 5 | Sleek , with skin gleaming like a rich satin — |
| 6 | From that experience , he derived an ideal of stage unity stemming from a close collaboration ‘ regardless as far as possible of individual prestige and personality ’ , which was reinforced by working in the Group Theatre of the thirties with Auden , Isherwood , Spender , Britten and others . |
| 7 | But we still have to train people to be able to cook under any conditions — a young soldier can often find himself on his own in the field cooking for a given number of people . |
| 8 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament consisting of a 28-seat House of Assembly popularly elected every five years , and a 21-seat appointed Senate . |
| 9 | The Kingdom of Thailand ( formerly Siam ) is a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament consisting of a 261-member Senate appointed by the monarch , currently King Bhumipol Adulyadej , on the recommendation of the Prime Minister , and a 347-member House of Representatives elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 10 | He had drunk over a bottle and a half already but showed little outward sign of over-consumption , except for his accent curdling into a thicker Scots . |
| 11 | This example has all the characteristics of a sentence occurring within a larger piece of text , and illustrates quite clearly the need for a ‘ previous discourse ’ co-ordinate , as well as the more obvious ‘ time ’ and ‘ place ’ co-ordinates . |
| 12 | For a few weeks in mid-winter , the steel-blue waters of the Zanskar river freeze into a seventy mile ice passageway winding through a deep canyon in the remote mountains of the northern Himalaya . |
| 13 | He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’ |
| 14 | Interestingly , the department consisting of a single planner has his only service , Textline , on his desk . |
| 15 | In his next symphony , No 32 in G , K.318 , he reverted to the old Italian sinfonia form — a shorter , single-movement piece consisting of a slow section sandwiched between two allegros . |
| 16 | For stocking stitch knitting on a standard gauge machine , this often means no weights and , for pattern knitting , just the claw weights . |
| 17 | Details of the new force , which was expected to become operational by the end of 1994 , revealed that it would consist of three elements : a Rapid Reaction Force consisting of a multinational corps under UK command ; Main Defence Forces consisting of six multinational corps ( two under German command , one each under US , Netherlands and Belgian command and another under rotating German and Danish command ) ; and Augmentation Forces or reserves . |
| 18 | In seeking to make these aims operational , the plan set out the general characteristics of the proposed polytechnic : it was to be a ‘ broadly-based institution catering for a wide range of higher education for the over-18 age groups ’ , giving priority to sandwich courses , but providing courses other than degree courses for those able to benefit from ‘ advanced courses of a specialist nature ’ . |
| 19 | Although Max is a jazz genius , fame always eludes him , he always loses his fee and ends each episode walking down a lonely street into the sunset , consoled by his friend Alto Ego who loudly plays a mournful tune . |
| 20 | The ‘ B ’ vitamins are a very complex group , with each individual ‘ B ’ vitamin contributing to a different aspect of fitness . |
| 21 | Nathan shook his head , his mouth twisting in a humourless smile . |
| 22 | A very interesting case study relating to a successful application of participation at Rolls Royce is given in Mumford & Henshall ( 1979 ) . |
| 23 | as if the problems of font matching within a single typesetter vendor 's equipment were n't potentially bad enough we now face the problem of a whole host of methods for getting the fonts displayed on the screen of the desktop publishing system . |
| 24 | But the synopsis that he offers of his tale : is unmistakably that of a fabliau , and with the target figure appearing as a regular element within the fabliau it is understandable that the Reeve , a carpenter , should anticipate an attack upon himself : Fabliaux are thoroughly suitable textual weapons for the two churls , the Miller and the Reeve , to beat each other over the head with . |
| 25 | For a brief moment , she had seen herself raising the tiny silver gun and pulling the trigger , once and then again , the blood appearing like a diseased flower on Lewis 's soiled shirt . |
| 26 | They got it when Inzamam was short of speed returning for a second run , and Malcolm 's throw from third man was slickly relayed by Russell to the bowler 's end . |
| 27 | On Feb. 23 a Swedish parliamentary delegation returning from a two-week visit to South Africa recommended the maintenance of Swedish economic sanctions until the outcome of the referendum was known . |
| 28 | In contrast European nations have allowed contracting companies to keep their R&D findings secret from other companies ; with this kind of practice occurring across a dozen nations , European defence R&D is often wasted as well as fragmented . |
| 29 | An open fire needs an air entry opening with a free area of at least 50% of the fire 's throat area , while rooms container other solid fuel or oil-burning appliances must have openings totalling 550sq mm per kilowatt of rated output above the first 5kW . |
| 30 | With the edge of the island visible on either side , Manhattan sits in murky river , an absurd chunk of metropolis looking like a Gothic spaceship working up to an explosive departure from the planet . |