Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 2 | As early as July 1728 Wade was able to report : ‘ I am now with all possible diligence carrying on the new road for wheel-carriages between Dunkeld and Inverness , of about 80 English measured miles [ 128 km ] ’ , but it was 1731 which saw the creation of his masterpiece , the road from Dalwhinnie to Fort Augustus , in the middle of the Great Glen . |
| 3 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 4 | The oddly named My Father 's Vertigo , a near narrative piece bringing out the best in LCDT , set the programme on its right tracks and proved that dance can contain wit . |
| 5 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 6 | The second , in 1552 , saw the publication of Hamilton 's Catechism , a vernacular work setting out the basic tenets of Catholic belief . |
| 7 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 8 | It is basic AIB practice that the investigating team carrying out the original field investigation follows the work right through all the stages of testing and researches to the ultimate production of the report , thus ensuring complete continuity throughout . |
| 9 | The working groups will look at particular topics , consider the existing legislation and help prepare a discussion document for wider public consultation setting out the various options for reform . |
| 10 | Brewery bosses say that every British couple bringing back the new full drink and tobacco allowance would save almost £1,000 in import duty . |
| 11 | The other end was already harnessed to a team of horses , so it was easy work pulling off the entire roof in one smack . |
| 12 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 13 | The neck is ( you guessed it ) mahogany , again of reasonable quality , and all of one piece , save for an extra block making up the traditionally-pointed heel . |
| 14 | A Dwarf sees an extra Elf sitting up the same tree , about to fire an Elf Bow and strike down his rockbrother . |
| 15 | The containment of public spending has won out over local choice ; reducing the state in this area has meant central government rolling back the local state . |
| 16 | In order to monitor the sources of recruitment on the programme HCIMA will require centres to complete , for each cohort of students , a standard form setting out the prior qualifications/learning experience for the student group . |
| 17 | In order to monitor the sources of recruitment on the programme HCIMA will require centres to complete , for each cohort of students , a standard form setting out the prior qualifications/learning experience for the student group . |
| 18 | If A is the centre of a straight line travelling along a curved path , the area traversed can be calculated by multiplying the length of the line by the length of A 's path . |
| 19 | During a 24-hour visit to Argentina on March 2-3 , 1990 , President Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Menem signed a joint declaration setting up a ministerial commission for political co-ordination and integration . |
| 20 | We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears , through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo , to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy , which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe . |
| 21 | The two major forms of housing tenure in Britain are owner-occupation , which accounts for 51.5 per cent of the population , and local authority ( or council ) housing , which accounts for 33.4 per cent of the population , with housing associations , co-operatives and the private rented sector making up the remaining 15 per cent ( CSO , 1979 , p. 146 ) . |
| 22 | It 's hard work pumping up the inflatable with a foot pump , so why not use someone 's drysuit inflator instead ? |
| 23 | She is a little girl putting on a little girl act . |
| 24 | One of them , Zowina , later remembered her fright when she encountered the strange red-haired man with the square forehead prowling along a dark passage at night . |
| 25 | Odinga , who resigned as Kenya 's Vice-President in 1966 , told a press conference that the NDP would seek formal registration and the repeal of provisions in the national Constitution setting up the single party state . |
| 26 | We hastily put to sea in deteriorating weather conditions , the freshening easterly wind pushing up a lumpy swell for which this area is notorious . |
| 27 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 28 | But when it comes to discovering those original chord sequences , it 's not all late night slaving over an acoustic guitar . |
| 29 | First , neither the development of the ‘ visible hand ’ in coordinating ‘ vertical ’ flows from the extraction of raw materials through to final sales , nor the rise of the diversified corporation carrying out a planned allocation of resources between different product divisions , abolishes competition between capitalist enterprises . |
| 30 | There he turned and say a tall blond-haired man holding out an empty glass . |