Example sentences of "[prep] it [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were men half-hidden by piled-up mountains of coloured balloons at some of the street corners , a relic , Ward said , of the magnificent feathered headdresses of the Aztecs , and with the stillness of evening the dust haze had gone , so that the huge square of the Zócalo had a brooding sense of peace , the cathedral 's twin towers still touched with the sunset 's warmth and the great mass of it dominating the presidential palace . |
| 2 | The chance of it getting the entire phrase of 28 characters right is ( 1/27 ) to the power 28 , i.e. ( 1/27 ) multiplied by itself 28 times . |
| 3 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 4 | Here the aircraft component will have an acceptable mass and strength which will result in it having an optimum working life . |
| 5 | By superimposing the same scale on the two axes of the matrix , the product can then be positioned , represented by a circle of which the area is proportional to the forecast market size , possibly with another inside it representing the estimated market share . |
| 6 | Not every reader of his book can have come to it believing the chauvinistic claims that have sometimes been issued on behalf both of psychoanalysis and of oral history , or prepared to believe that these pursuits could be successfully combined . |
| 7 | He was an active member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , his papers to it showing a wide range of interests . |
| 8 | Or , if the cracker is to be a gift for someone , write the person 's name on it using a metallic pen ( Fig 3 ) . |