Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rod that is propped at 45° to the water , quivering slightly as the current pushes against the line , will suddenly slam over as though it has been struck with a sandbag . |
| 2 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 3 | Bill Copland ordered action stations at midnight , when the German searchlights were going out as the anti-aircraft defences stood down . |
| 4 | For instance , horses in a field on the side of a road will totally ignore traffic rushing by because the older horses show no fear and just continue grazing . |
| 5 | LLOYD 'S is still doing better than the corporate insurers said David Coleridge , chairman of Lloyd 's . |
| 6 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 7 | He was beside her in an instant , dragging the brambles away from her body , cursing furiously as the jagged thorns caught in her clothing . |
| 8 | The pubs owners are hoping their families association with the Hobnail Inn will continue — a cousin is now thinking of taking over when the present owners retire . |
| 9 | Ferguson will have been horrified at Jones ' claim , which might have been the after-match drinks talking rather than the pre-match ones , that Wimbledon 's players spent the days before their win over United drinking until six in the morning . |
| 10 | The building was in use for its original purpose until the early 1960s , but by the time it was acquired for conversion into dwellings in 1977 , it had lain empty for more than ten years and was decaying rapidly because the upper floors and roof covering of the mill had been destroyed in a fire . |
| 11 | For example , start off by asking whether lesions produce sensory or non-sensory impairments before finding out whether the non-sensory deficits involve ‘ memory ’ or not . |
| 12 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |