Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | so it is so easy when you 're only helping on a side line because you 're not doing any of the thought processing |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The prospect of a soldier ‘ literally dying with a redundancy notice in his hand is not a prospect that any decent MP should contemplate ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | she was only pointing to an overflow culvert . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Beneath a stunted row an tree the group was busily engaged , perhaps feasting on a rabbit carcase . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not the sexually played-out kelt , nor a fish that has undergone an exhausting twenty minutes or so battling with a master angler . |
| 14 | In an upwards market this would benefit the landlord , who could never hope to achieve a full market rent pursuant to an interim rent application , but would disadvantage the tenant , who would presumably prefer the old rent to continue during negotiations , thereby acting as a negotiating factor . |
| 15 | It jerked and looped and lurched energetically , finally landing upon an oak leaf . |
| 16 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
| 17 | I just knew it would be a trick question to start the contest and was desperately groping for a trick answer when Swartz said ‘ Silverstone ’ and scored his opening point . |
| 18 | From swimming in one of many pools or boating on the lakes , to riding , tennis , hiking or just soaking up a mountain dark tan . |
| 19 | I believe that her fear of losing control of her eating and thus developing into an adult woman , which makes her fight against her ever-present hunger , is understandable . |
| 20 | Yeah I was just looking for a memory jogger here , I just could n't remember what it was |
| 21 | I 'm just waiting for a Lemon Delight . |
| 22 | Second , as the stores fill up , their buffering capacity will be reduced , thus leading to a pacemaker elevation of cytosolic calcium ( Fig. 4 b ) , which often appears at a specific initiation site where it provides the trigger to detonate the process of CICR ( Fig. 4 , step c ) . |
| 23 | ‘ People say we 're ‘ retro ’ , but as far as we 're concerned we 're just going through a learning process . |
| 24 | Now she is standing on the edge of a deep bowl or crater , floored with the little rings across which the dragonriders are already strolling with a pendulum gait . |
| 25 | Leaving the ever-increasing fitness demands on players aside , the chief weakness of the Sicily schedule was that it mixed a pool-based round-robin format , which creates a precise and fair hierarchy , with a league system , which reshuffles the pack and can end up rewarding skilful planning rather than success on the field , before finally moving to a knock-out format . |
| 26 | This piece of work demanded a bio-psychosocial approach and social care planning finally culminating in a family meeting . |
| 27 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 28 | ‘ We are no longer talking about a safety net for just a few young people ’ , said Roger Singleton , Barnardo 's senior director . |
| 29 | Ferguson moved to Kuwait , where he first met and impressed Crosby , who was just embarking on a coaching career . |
| 30 | Wade , whose sixth place in the 1500 metres was the best showing by a North-East athlete at the World Championships in Tokyo last year , has decided to head for Aberdeen instead to face Dorovskikh in this summer 's first major televised event , the Grampian Festival of Road Racing . |