Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His elbows were on the table edge , his heavily ringed fingers idly scratching at a thick black beard as though it aided his concentration . |
| 2 | Brenda , her eyes suddenly alighting on a round milk stain on the table cloth , herself thought that breakfast was n't perhaps the most suitable time for a display of her recently acquired information about the investigation of rape . |
| 3 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 4 | Paul erm involved in a number of erm in a number of amateur companies apparently working as a casual member of staff . |
| 5 | And then , across this orderly slow progression where all was held in a great round , three lights moving together pursued their way , little glow-worms busily creeping in a straight line across the dome , one green , one red , in movement , then one white at the same pace ; now one winking now the other , as if flashing messages . |
| 6 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 7 | For most of the Eighties , Punjab has been wracked by vicious conflict between the security forces and half a dozen incoherent but well-armed groups ostensibly fighting for a free Sikh state of Khalistan , the Land of the Pure . |
| 8 | or individuals possibly working for a higher degree , have gathered information and analysed it . |
| 9 | This will considerably help cash Mow problems for new haulage firms and hauliers still operating at a modest turnover . |
| 10 | Einstein spent most of his later years unsuccessfully searching for a unified theory , but the time was not ripe : there were partial theories for gravity and the electromagnetic force , but very little was known about the nuclear forces . |
| 11 | Growth in the world economy slowed very markedly during late 1990 and the early part of 1991 , as mounting fears about a war in the Middle East compounded the problems already arising from a significant tightening of world credit markets and a generally falling level of industrial productivity . |
| 12 | He disapproved of his bishop ( A. A. David ) for the tough way in which he handled three recalcitrant Anglo-Catholic priests who refused to conform to rules laid down by the bishop and yet did nothing about the radical dean of the cathedral who did things equally nonconforming in a Low Church direction . |
| 13 | This complex web includes : a ) local and regional offices of central government departments , such as the DSS and DOE ( see Young 1982 ) ; b ) non-departmental public bodies usually dealing with a single specialized function , such as health and water authorities ; c ) decentralized units of public corporations , such as electricity boards ; d ) innumerable autonomous and semi-autonomous official and quasi-official organizations , each with its part to play in the policy-making process , such as tenants ' liaison committees and youth service advisory councils ( see Cousins , 1982 , 1983 ) ; e ) elected local government ( see Figure 8.2 ) . |
| 14 | CNAA members wished a set of special arrangements to be made for part-time students almost amounting to a separate course . |
| 15 | With opinion polls still pointing to a hung Parliament , he appealed to the electorate to ‘ wake up ’ , before it was too late , to the dangers posed by Scottish devolution and other proposed constitutional changes , including proportional representation . |
| 16 | With the polls now pointing to a Labour minority government , the question of PR can no longer be treated as an academic abstraction . |
| 17 | ‘ We dined this day , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ at the house of Mr Frazer of Streichton , who shewed us in his grounds some stones yet standing of a druidical circle , and what I began to think more worthy of notice , some forest trees of full growth . ’ |