Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , single-person households with , for example , an income consisting only of a single person 's state pension are much more likely to be found in the older age groups than in the younger ones . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is no buccal capsule , the mouth consisting simply of a small opening surrounded by three lips . |
| 4 | There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again . |
| 5 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 6 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 7 | Each papilla arising entirely from a single area is represented by the letter m . |
| 8 | Mihir , a 28-year-old Bangladeshi working illegally on a long-expired tourist visa , is paid 150,000 yen ( £650 ) a month at a manual job in a car parts factory north of Tokyo . |
| 9 | have also interpreted an increased reactivity at position -46 to singlet oxygen occurring only in a ternary active complex , as an increase in bending allowing better contacts between the two proteins [ 32 ] . |
| 10 | The struggle between these two classes was for Marx the key to understanding modern society and its likely future , which he envisaged as the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat leading ultimately to a classless communist society . |
| 11 | As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse . |
| 12 | It was an hour after sunset and already dark enough to pick out glow-worms in the bracken sparking brightly with a greenish light . |
| 13 | There I stood in the fruit shop gazing longingly at a mouth-watering display of peaches . |
| 14 | NU VALK Dying deliberately in a lonely ( high ) place |
| 15 | But these are not instances of the academic community acting concertedly as a single corporate body , being self-critical about its own internal affairs and activities . |
| 16 | My vision is of a team pulling together with a common aim and purpose to give glory to God and see His Kingdom extended in our part of the South Side of Glasgow . |
| 17 | And the provision for the county is well over the allocations in the structure plan already , but the County Council , sent observations to the District Council to say , We 're not going to object to this particular er windfall site coming forward for a hundred and sixty houses , because it 's recycling existing urban land , and in that case we can set the policy to one side . |
| 18 | He will at a very early stage have taken steps to preserve evidence , possibly by photographic and other means , of an ephemeral or fleeting nature such as ice ( if he is lucky the temperature on the ground since the crash could still be below freezing ) , or fuel leaking away from a damaged tank or fuel filter , or soot deposits indicative of fire in the air which could be washed away by rain or other disturbance . |
| 19 | In contrast , participation is characterised by communication amongst all members of the group working together towards a common goal , in a friendly , informative atmosphere with open discussion and the swapping of ideas . |
| 20 | She is the widow of a life peer but is referred to throughout as ‘ Lady Julie ’ — the author indulging here in a little Pom-teasing . |
| 21 | Temples are revered in this way and it is not uncommon to observe a priest in prayer moving clockwise around a sacred enclosure , or a Stupa . |
| 22 | The perfect weather for camping — a still , warm night with a gigantic pastel-coloured moon reflecting dreamily in a glassy loch — is coincidentally the perfect night for the midges to chew your ass off . |
| 23 | It was a short whip tapering quickly to a fine tip . |
| 24 | He breathed deeply as he thought about it , passing postal workers from the Mount Pleasant sorting office standing talking just outside a small cafe . |
| 25 | Sitting on a rocking chair in an office at the back , smoking and sipping beer , was a weedy little man with decaying teeth , glimpses of gold fillings , heavily tattooed arms and a cigarette drooping permanently from a weak mouth . |
| 26 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 27 | Gastropods of this type are characterized by strong ribs produced into spines , a long aperture , and relatively low spire looking rather like a Mayan pyramid . |
| 28 | As a boy I would watch this process each evening , vaguely wanting to hold it back ( and seeing it , with adolescent melancholy , as the pinpoint of human existence fading inexorably in a black universe ) . |
| 29 | Thus , if : attribute Al , = single boundary touching only with a second domain , and attribute A2 = solid in domain space . |
| 30 | He 'd already left her , however , slipping into a tunnel leading right beneath a crumbling building . |