Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have no doubt that there will be special preparations and allowances made by police and spectators for the Marathon , in which I will be competing for the first time tomorrow . |
| 2 | Her friends ridiculed her , seeing for the first time how the balance in their relationship had shifted in favour of adorable Diana . |
| 3 | ‘ This genuine shortage is occurring for the first time ever . |
| 4 | True , Gower upset the Indian Cricket Board of Control with sensitive claims about ball scuffing in the last series here two years ago . |
| 5 | Rozario looking for the first flick on as you say . |
| 6 | For example , Plato , writing in the first century AD , says that some regarded oreichalkos ( brass ) as being above silver , and more recently , in the nineteenth century , when aluminium first became available as an expensive novelty it was used in place of silver for prestige items . |
| 7 | Pure gold can be beaten out to form very thin sheets ; according to Pliny , writing in the first century AD , 25 g of gold could be beaten into 750 leaves each 10 cm square . |
| 8 | Writing in the first century BC , Cicero ( De republica , xiv . |
| 9 | The first defendant , Capricorn , a company registered in Panama , was the owner of a valuable reliquary which was an important piece of ancient Pakistan art of the Gandhara period , dating from the first century AD . |
| 10 | Around fifty works of art will include : four Eastern Zhou bronze vessels dating from the fifth century BC , cast in two different alloys of bronze and inlaid with a design incorporating small pieces of malachite , paste and copper wire ; a bronze male figure of the third to fourth century BC , supporting a candlestick ; of a similar date and from a royal treasury is a bronze and silver ox inlaid with a complex pattern of curved scrolls ; a gold and turquoise garment-hook in the form of three intertwined dragons ; a group of Tang figures including an ochre camel in unglazed earthenware ; and a twelfth-century carved wooden figure of a seated Bodhisattva , last shown in London at Eskenazi 's in 1972 and purchased back for this exhibition . |
| 11 | At a depth of 16 metres he came across a larger than life size bronze foot sticking out of the sand that proved only to be the tip of a large area of buried statues dating from the fifth century BC to the fourth century AD . |
| 12 | There is an exceptionally beautiful Greek vase depicting mobbing , dating from the sixth century BC . |
| 13 | Among the numerous artifacts uncovered was a miraculously preserved carpet dating from the 5th century BC , which survived because it was frozen in a block of ice after early grave robbers had broken the seal and allowed water into the tomb . |
| 14 | Lifelike representations of Dicerorhinus in the form of bronze wine containers ( zun ) are known from the late Shang but also from as late as the Late Zou-Western Han period dating from the third century B.C. It was the transformation of the environment resulting from the spread of intensive agriculture that caused the rhinoceros , like the elephant , to retreat to the southernmost provinces of China and ultimately to abandon them completely . |
| 15 | According to the second interpretation even this may substantially overstate the effect of the section . |
| 16 | Losses of European forests due to air pollution are running at US$29 billion per year , according to the first study ever to attempt such an estimate of pollution 's financial impact on tree reserves . |
| 17 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 18 | RIGHT Part of an ivory plaque dating to the 8th–9th centuries BC found at Nimrud in Iraq . |
| 19 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 20 | A few people were already astir in the first village they passed through , and when they reached the piazza in Pontino higher up a huddled group stood within the light and warmth of the doorway of the Bar Italia waiting for the first bus down to Florence . |
| 21 | Thomson does push ahead at the risoluto marking in the third movement slightly more than I care for , and there are one or two idiosyncratic touches elsewhere , albeit of little importance . |
| 22 | Leaving the museum and instantly stepping into the twentieth century again is a strange experience . |
| 23 | Mansell was slow to start … and Williams team mate Ricardo Patrase got a flyer sneaking into the first bend ahead of the field . |
| 24 | Joint authorship in an author 's first paper may be justifiable on grounds of inexperience , but the Science Citation Index ( SCI ) policy of indexing under the first author only will fail to identify the output of Ph D research if the researcher is not named first . |
| 25 | Speaking for the first time publicly about the death of Leonora , five , Lady Romsey praises Charles for his ‘ incredible caring and understanding . ’ |
| 26 | Biotechnology , in the form of plant and animal breeding , also has a long history , beginning with the first agriculturalists c. 10 kyr BP , but developments in genetic engineering in the 1970s and 1980s are opening up possibilities that have no historical parallels and thus there are no base-line data against which it is possible to predict future environmental changes that genetically engineered organisms may promote . |
| 27 | The definitive account of this belief was presented in the Book of Daniel , written long after the return from the Babylonian Exile under the stress of danger from the Seleucids just before the Maccabean rising in the second century BC . |
| 28 | The invention of printing in the fifteenth century steadily did away with the need for handwritten books , and it is interesting to note that from that time onwards various styles of calligraphy developed for different purposes . |
| 29 | Example 3 is an ascending lick moving from the 10th position up through the 12th position to finish in the 15th position . |
| 30 | This one is useful for moving from the 5th position down to the 2nd position in A minor . |