Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the sounds are bright and punchy , the humbucker dishing out the appropriate amount of clean chunk or coil-tapped crunch when desired . |
| 2 | With the RAF closing down the adjacent airfield and it going on the market next year , YAM ‘ hope to expand and seek to continue to expand ’ , remarked Ian . |
| 3 | They could see a man with a ladder up against the cinema putting up the new poster , and the small round figure of Peggy Pine coming out of her dress shop to stand and look admiringly at her window display . |
| 4 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 5 | By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived . |
| 6 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 7 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 8 | The failure of ecological aspects of small mammal faunas to predict predator species leads to the consideration of modifications to the bones making up the faunal assemblage . |
| 9 | The effect , therefore , of only the first limb applying , ie before the change in the law bringing in the second limb , could be seen by the following example . |
| 10 | Erm obviously we can er prepare a note for the committee setting out the main features in what I would call our commercial strategy . |
| 11 | It invited the institutions of the European Community to employ all means to ensure that the act setting up the European anti-drug monitoring body could be adopted before June 30 , 1992 . |
| 12 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
| 13 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 14 | As we pulled our tuxedos over our damp shirts and straightened our bow ties we could hear the band striking up the bridal march . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never seen anything so magnificent , ’ she said , and stared at the water cascading down the three-tier construction . |
| 16 | Directly into a drain , so we never s that 's why we did n't see it , because the water was actually pouring down a drain , so of course we did n't see the water lolling up the waterlogged ground , otherwise we 'd have spotted it earlier . |
| 17 | The actual income and expenditure for the project will probably not be known by the person carrying out the short-term programming . |
| 18 | Erm I the actual income and expenditure of a project of the project will probably not be known by the person carrying out the short-term programme . |
| 19 | Wallis never forgot how Minton , whilst painting this portrait , skipped to and fro across the floorboards at Shaftesbury Villas ‘ like some lean fencer with his long brush stabbing at the canvas ’ , all the while throwing out the liveliest sallies . |
| 20 | Whether it is the Lusitania steaming up the Irish coast towards her doom or a couple of one-legged dwarfs drinking in a bar in Paris , the processes of imagination in the form of characters , clothes , setting , and action are all clawed out of the mind . |
| 21 | This will be a truly gigantic equation in this instance , for it will have to describe not only the electron and the microscope but also the observer peering down the latter 's eyepiece . |
| 22 | At harvest services when the church was crowded and extra seats were needed the stewards simply borrowed what chairs they could get form the neighbours living down the White Row in Carrickblacker Road . |
| 23 | The favoured solution , the nationalization of the arms firms , was generally presented as an anti-monopoly measure quite acceptable to liberals , not as ( what actually it would have been ) the state taking over the commanding heights of the economy . |
| 24 | When the protest finally collapsed , Richard Branson stood by the door ushering out the gypsy-like throng , politely removing the records , tapes , posters and movable items of office furniture which had been secreted in robes and kaftans . |
| 25 | The Evangelicals recommend ‘ Ragged Schools ’ , Sunday schools , and regular churchgoing as the cure ; they agreed with the Benthamites that education was the ladder leading up the economic scale . |
| 26 | We went carefully through the Workplace Assessor 's Manual for the SVQ , matching the knowledge evidence required to the modules making up the general SVQ . |
| 27 | Each of us teaches our group of trainees all the modules making up the general SVQ — with the exception of Information Technology 2 , which is taught by local college staff . |
| 28 | We went through each of the modules making up the general SVQ , and allocated responsibility for developing candidate support materials . |
| 29 | They are immigrants who travel across the world breaking down the moral order , bringing chaos to organized society . |
| 30 | Moreover , it overstates the homogeneity of the components making up the ruling structure ( the state ; the economic units ; administrative and ideological apparatuses ) . |