Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great pillars of stone swept up to a roof that seemed an infinity away , sunlight was pouring through the stained glass and falling through space to the floor below , and in one of the side chapels a group of French nuns were singing the Angelus by candlelight , their voices weaving round the stone pillars and the shafts of dark and light . |
| 2 | Bobbing at anchor are thousands of vessels ranging from the trading ships of the merchant princes to the fanciful pleasure barges of the people of Lothern and the sleek , deadly warships of the High Elf fleet . |
| 3 | The tides surging through the coral heads charge the water with oxygen and the tropical sun warms it and fills it with light . |
| 4 | When Swayne stopped speaking small sounds reached them from the street : a woman 's heels tapping on the paving stones , a snatch of conversation from the people opposite … |
| 5 | An alternative approach is to define words according to the sentence contexts in which they occur . |
| 6 | We do not think that reduced fetal growth is associated with death from cardiovascular disease merely through an association with adverse influences acting in the adult lives of people of low social class . |
| 7 | Which particular pathway a cell follows is usually controlled by extracellular signals acting at the branch points . |
| 8 | From the moment you bruise your thighs clambering into the bucket seats and flick the engine into life , it 's clear that compromises are out . |
| 9 | The lands and castles belonging to the Taillefer Counts of Angoulême and their vassals at Jarnac , Bouteville , Archiac , Barbezieux and Montignac , as well as Angoulême itself , lay across the roads which linked the centres of ducal power at Poitiers and Saintes with Bordeaux . |
| 10 | Pale , bulbous knobs of fungi clinging to the tree trunks exuded a sticky scent and a faint suggestion of phosphorescence . |
| 11 | Along the broken kerb of the road stood a line of taxis , their drivers dozing in the back seats with their legs dangling out of the open doors . |
| 12 | Bono tells me that before Ireland received TOTP fans flocking to the dance halls thought that the showbands actually were Slade , Sweet , Mud … |
| 13 | Will my hon. Friend do everything he possibly can firmly to nail the blame on Bruce Millan for the delay in these funds coming to the coalfield areas ? |
| 14 | Before climbing a steep , stiff staircase back up the cliff to Rhossili , I paused to watch the waves licking at the oak ribs of the Helvetia — a Norwegian coaster driven aground in 1887 , whose remains are still half buried in the sand . |
| 15 | Being asked how much the foresaid are worth per annum , he says with the pasture belonging to the maintenance of the animals working in the plough teams they are worth per annum £17 . " |
| 16 | Other optical effects , such as the montaged graphics sequence showing the Doctor , Sara and Bret being ‘ matter transported ’ to Mira helped inspire the Effects Designers working on the stargate sequences for Kubrick 's 2001 : A Space Odyssey . |
| 17 | The software configuration should thus be capable not only of handling geometry and running analysis programs on the data , but also of selecting the appropriate models for these activities according to the design requests and the functionality specified for those elements . |
| 18 | The progress towards our erm , compliance with our ethical investment policy though , has been achieved while considering the need to secure the best returns possible on our investment , and we have done it through a series of progressive sales of investments at the appropriate times according to the market conditions , and so I 'm happy to say that we have been able to achieve both our responsibilities as trustees , our responsibility both to secure the best return on investment and , to consider wider policy implications of our investment policy . |
| 19 | In the long term there may even be Nicholson 's pubs appearing in the business centres of other cities . |
| 20 | Study 4 was an attempt to see whether the effects observed in Studies 2 and 3 were specific to the particular stimuli which were used or whether they can also be observed with a wider range of stimuli and a larger number of responses contributing to the ROC curves to improve the reliability of the recognition measures . |
| 21 | In relation to this , a number of cohesive chains were identified in the analysis , the most significant of which are the progressions of phrases relating to the cabinet ministers and the soldiers . |
| 22 | Mayhew described the costermongers living in the coster districts of London with wives to whom they were not legally married although they remained permanently attached , and these are only the most famous of such alliances . |
| 23 | This may be due to the coarse resolution of the model ( 3.5 km vertically ) and a number of uncertainties remaining in the model calculations , such as the initial distribution of the volcanic cloud and the amount of SO 2 injected . |
| 24 | On the Sunday all the show fish are auctioned off with the proceeds going to the BKA funds . |
| 25 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 26 | It blended in beautifully with the rubbish bags and empty bottles waiting for the refuse men , but with my luck they 'd probably arrive before I could collect it . |
| 27 | Tamil separatists belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) were said to be responsible for the massacre on Oct. 15 of more than 140 people , mostly Moslems , in pre-dawn raids on three villages in the northern district of Polunnaruwa . |
| 28 | He was standing on the bottom stair when he heard footsteps coming up the back stairs from the kitchen and then Jane 's large dark eyes peered through the banisters at him . |
| 29 | , Robert ( 1639–1720 ) , mason and architect , was baptized in June 1639 at Raunds , Northamptonshire , the son of Edward and Mary Grumbold , and was a member of a family of masons originating at the quarry villages of Raunds and Weldon which was active in the Northamptonshire area over several generations . |
| 30 | Both ends of the building were on fire , flames pouring from the end windows of all three floors and licking their way hungrily towards the roof . |