Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Before the trade took off I bought a small font ( of the splashing rather than the total immersion variety ) for 20 crisp oncers ; now you 'd need to check your savings before indulging in a piece of granite . |
| 4 | The knife flashed in the spotlight , glinting viciously before the razor-sharp blade was drawn across his throat . |
| 5 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 6 | His cheek was close to her mouth and impulsively she kissed it , pulling away before the fierce hunger for affection should overwhelm her altogether . |
| 7 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 8 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 9 | But now was the wrong moment and he found himself wondering wryly when the right moment might be . |
| 10 | Bill Copland ordered action stations at midnight , when the German searchlights were going out as the anti-aircraft defences stood down . |
| 11 | Some stretches of the river seemed to be racing downstream while the adjoining stretch , maybe fifty yard wide , raced in the opposite direction causing silent eddies and whirlpools . |
| 12 | Least noticeably but perhaps most dangerously , the Palestinians living inside the 1949 Armistice Line , barely 11 per cent of the Israeli population at the time , were nevertheless growing faster than the Jewish community and were expected to exceed 20 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 13 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 14 | Winners Many cashed in on their success by exiting just before the current recession began |
| 15 | The men began moving restlessly when the young gunman raised his hand . |
| 16 | Nyhavn , full of character and teeming with life , was just the sort of place that Suzie would love : two rows of picturesque houses flanking either side of a canal which was lined with old fishing boats , their tall masts and graceful rigging moving lazily as the light wind ruffled the water . |
| 17 | The same madness is spreading everywhere as the small business crisis deepens . |
| 18 | ‘ The moment those lights go out , ’ said Birkett , ‘ I 'm getting behind that stove and I 'm staying there until the whole shooting match is over ’ |
| 19 | Roosevelt was aware of the dangers of the United States and the Soviet Union drifting apart once the common cement of the war against Germany was removed . |
| 20 | I felt a migraine coming on as the old girl began to wail and Zylpha screamed a torrent of abuse . |
| 21 | Despite their best efforts not to , they had been doing so since the giant rally at Sheffield a week earlier . |
| 22 | Even if individual employers were fairly bullish about the prospects for their own firm and intend expanding output and employment , they would postpone doing so until the real wage rate had reverted to its permanent value . |
| 23 | ‘ Those services which normally refer clients to us are not doing so because the local authority concerned does not have a contract with Roma or are struggling to sort out their assessment procedures , ’ he said . |
| 24 | LLOYD 'S is still doing better than the corporate insurers said David Coleridge , chairman of Lloyd 's . |
| 25 | They moved together to the edge of fulfilment — and beyond , crying out as the climactic explosion burst upon them . |
| 26 | It 's beginning to feel like an age old question , or certainly one that has been hanging around since the dark ages . |
| 27 | He was beside her in an instant , dragging the brambles away from her body , cursing furiously as the jagged thorns caught in her clothing . |
| 28 | The political parties warmed up for a general election by bickering over whether the new health trusts remain part of the national health service . |
| 29 | ‘ But not in radio , ’ she asserted resentfully , her eyes dropping momentarily as the simple truth awoke old guilt . |
| 30 | Innsbruck is close by and the city is worth visiting just to meander in its lovely mediaeval streets with mountains soaring above while the Italian border is close by and there are excursions to Lake Garda , Merano and Vipiteno . |