Example sentences of "[vb pp] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
| 2 | WHY are you less likely to get caught speeding in a black car and most likely in a red one ? |
| 3 | To this end , the material will be reorganised according to a single system and an index and guide will be created . |
| 4 | All the remaining 25 patients ( 54% of the original 46 and 81% of the survivors ) were interviewed according to a standard formula , using Visick grading of general clinical condition , recording heartburn , regurgitation and dysphagia with DeMeester-Johnson reflux scale . |
| 5 | There was a week in 1986 when Fleet Street and Westminster were convulsed with a rumour that Home Sectretary Leon Brittan had been caught interferring with a small boy ; no newspaper dared to print what all " in the know " were discussing until " Private Eye " published the story with the explanation that it was utterly false , and circulated to damage the Home Secretary by an anti-semitic faction in MI5 . |
| 6 | And business executives have disliked travelling to a special studio . |
| 7 | Then she has to stroke the horror away from me , like sluicing down a dog that 's come barking from a dirty river . |
| 8 | Although most of the work reported in the literature has examined chaining to a separate overflow area , this is not the most effective way of using chaining . |
| 9 | You can buy packs which you complete manually with exact timings taken from a digital clock , but it is more common for standard pads to be completed operating on a six-minute unit . |
| 10 | DNA effectively ‘ makes ’ the proteins ; or at least , it provides the code which , after due translation , determines that each protein is formed according to a prescribed pattern . |
| 11 | Central government subsidies are to be calculated according to a complicated formula that takes into account house prices in each area . |
| 12 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 13 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 14 | Deixis is seen as a fundamental element of human discourse , and a particular discoursal site is isolated where it can be seen operating in a particular way . |
| 15 | In February 1988 , the Church of the Stork 's Nest , on the corner of Stirbei Voda and Strada Berzei , not far from the shell of the new National History Museum , could be seen moving to a new resting place in order to improve the angle of the street . |
| 16 | And never be too proud to be seen riding in a little buggy like this , instead of a limousine . |
| 17 | The black , low-reflectance , areas are water , and the Colorado River is seen running in a south-westerly direction from Hite Crossing in the north to Glen Canyon in the south-west . |
| 18 | He was with Wilson Staff in those days , and they had written asking for a good caddie for the centenary Open . |
| 19 | Usually seen soaring at a considerable height . |
| 20 | Robbie had n't realised just how much she 'd missed sleeping in a conventional bed , with plenty of room to stretch out her long legs . |
| 21 | It was as if , thought the queen-dowager fancifully , the world had stopped turning for a few moments , immobilised by the enormity of her action . |
| 22 | The sociology of knowledge was not founded on an epistemology but this meant only that its empirical analyses could not be interpreted according to a pre-established system . |
| 23 | The Bundesrat ( West German upper house of parliament ) was to be reconstituted according to a new allocation system , giving seats to each Land according to population from a minimum of three — as currently — to a maximum of eight ( instead of the present maximum of five ) . |
| 24 | RARELY are mothers or fathers shown participating in a wide variety of domestic chores not only the ones traditional for their sex ; |
| 25 | * Explore how the text can be understood according to a classificatory system ( see pp. 54 – 5 ) . |
| 26 | His mid teens were spent surfing on a casual basis but when he was about 17 he got into racing surf lifesaving skis and reached 3rd in the UK , a reflection on the poor standard compared with K1 racing rather than an indication of great ability , he believes . |
| 27 | There are three standard sizes , numbered according to a quaint system followed by all major plane manufacturers . |
| 28 | When she was found wandering in a nearby allotment eight weeks ago Teka was painfully thin , bald and her paws were bleeding . |
| 29 | All original records on anal cancers coded according to a modified version of the seventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD7 ) from 1943 to 1977 were examined manually to avoid inclusion of adenocarcinomas ( n=47 ) and melanomas ( n=19 ) . |
| 30 | Another of Mrs Gothberg 's horses was cut the following day , and the day after that a foal was found bleeding on a neighbouring farm . |