Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of these standards , SCOTVEC is creating a new series of awards in training and assessing , each consisting of a single unit . |
| 2 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
| 3 | This information is broadly of two kinds — that relating to the education authority 's policy and arrangements , and that relating to the individual school . |
| 4 | For larger molecules it is not possible to disentangle the information about the electronic ground state from that relating to the excited state . |
| 5 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | Of course , making an unauthorized copy of an Esperanto– English dictionary would infringe copyright , if only that subsisting in the typographical arrangement . |
| 7 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 8 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 9 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 10 | ‘ See you later , ’ said Sheila , already half listening to the next question . |
| 11 | I was very kindly invited to attend the opening at noon by the Princess Royal , but alas I could not manage this owing to a previous luncheon engagement . |
| 12 | There was no question of this amounting to a statutory contempt as proceedings were not ‘ active . ’ |
| 13 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | Within the cathedral is a collection of early and medieval carved stones , some belonging to a previous monastery . |
| 15 | More simply , this striving for the clear assertion of ‘ fundamentals ’ is an age-old and pandemic aspect of humanity : the striving for certainty and predictability . |
| 16 | The promised money fails to appear because , says the broker , of some failing in the would-be borrower . |
| 17 | She was half laughing , half melting under the determined onslaught of his caresses . |
| 18 | Delaney staggered over , half falling into the vacated chair . |
| 19 | Half seated , half leaning on the wooden structure and pushing with her feet against ground well worn by many such operations , she managed at last to move the gates gradually apart . |
| 20 | Is this referring to a moral triumph over injustice ? |
| 21 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |
| 22 | Because if she does n't , I do ; millions in this country do ; and members of her own party do : that urging from the Prime Minister wo n't resolve the dispute — arbitration will . ’ |
| 23 | Scientists working in a team , each looking at a separate facet of a problem , may well throw light on details , but they are no more likely to make fundamental discoveries than monkeys with typewriters . |
| 24 | Sometimes the education officer finds himself standing between rival colleges which are each vying for a larger share of the diminishing student market . |
| 25 | We 've got so much going through the big wire , put another little wire on as well . |
| 26 | The Labour Party had put down a vote of censure and there was much rumbling on the Tory backbenches . |
| 27 | Skógafoss is a sixty-seven metre monster , so wide and so tall , and so much falling in a single sweep that clouds of spray are produced . |
| 28 | We are therefore not so much talking about a single meaning as a true one versus all the others which are false . |
| 29 | A poor response from Valencia was easily overcome and within the city there was much murmuring against the new ruler . |
| 30 | With old people , the physical condition has so much bearing on the mental state . |