Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and Benn has made the grand gesture of giving his new WBC belt to his first conqueror , Michael Watson , who is slowly recovering after the brain damage he suffered against Eubank last year . |
| 2 | The University was fortunate in successfully bidding for a capital grant from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) towards the cost of a £1.5 million extension of the Pathfoot Building , now completed and being used to re-locate the Department of History with the rest of the School of Arts in Pathfoot . |
| 3 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 4 | For this diagram the values of single boreholes were linked together depending on the reflectance ranges . |
| 5 | so it is so easy when you 're only helping on a side line because you 're not doing any of the thought processing |
| 6 | As the weeks passed she became accustomed to seeing Luke already at his desk when she arrived , immaculately suited , his dark head , with that one dramatic streak of white hair , perfectly groomed , his long , square-tipped fingers idly toying with a gold fountain-pen as he frowned over his mail . |
| 7 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 8 | Carrie had finished cleaning the tables and was busy sweeping the floor when there was a loud knocking on the side door of the dining rooms . |
| 9 | The prospect of a soldier ‘ literally dying with a redundancy notice in his hand is not a prospect that any decent MP should contemplate ’ . |
| 10 | We can see , then , how computers help to develop and extend information , as well as merely acting as the storage medium . |
| 11 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 12 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 13 | Tomorrow this butter will be enriching many a roast chicken , thousands of omelettes and cakes and pastries , filling the kitchens of France with the incomparable scent of butter gently sizzling in a frying pan … |
| 14 | He was constantly dashing from the shop floor to the offices , to his car , to his suppliers , to his customers and back again . |
| 15 | Half an hour later , Jamie Shepherd , who had been patiently waiting in the hospital foyer , drove his granddaughter home . |
| 16 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 17 | she was only pointing to an overflow culvert . |
| 18 | Although a few may take up to a week of daily feeding with the culprit food before they respond , this is probably fairly unusual . |
| 19 | However , the strange events at Ingrow Tunnel take the shape of black smoke billowing out of the tunnel , obviously emanating from a steam locomotive , which is very possible considering the K&WVR has plenty of steam motive power . |
| 20 | Just as the smell of a ripe Camembert is only mouthwatering at the dinner table , the attraction of female odours is likely to depend on their context . |
| 21 | Beneath a stunted row an tree the group was busily engaged , perhaps feasting on a rabbit carcase . |
| 22 | This subtly psychological approach , no doubt based on much headbanging in the advertising agency , was nonetheless open to parody ( see pages 82–3 ) . |
| 23 | ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade . |
| 24 | After much shuffling from the living room Tom opened the door . |
| 25 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 26 | The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities has declared itself a potential purchaser but is apparently negotiating on the asking price which is said to be $2 million . |
| 27 | The Sparcserver 1000 is scalable and modular so upgrading from a base system to the high end is by simple addition and is $96,400 in upgrade charges . |
| 28 | At the top end there are the programs that seek to reproduce the environment found within a traditional art studio ; PageMaker , XPress and the now defunct Harvard Professional Publisher most closely fit this category , while products such as Ventura seek to provide the same typographic quality through a stylesheet and coded tags so appealing to the business user who needs an easily produced document which follows a common format . |
| 29 | Hiding from the rain in a smoky bar we missed the twelve o'clock chiming of the Town Hall clock . |
| 30 | It has the advantage that current drawn by the arms of the bridge is supplied by the source and so loading of the ratio windings and possible consequential disturbance of the potential difference ratio from is avoided . |