Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [subord] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cinema organ is like a big jelly mould , illuminated from within , a most spectacular thing that changed colour according to whether a major key or a minor key was being played . |
| 2 | ‘ We are actively looking at whether a smaller-scale scheme would be viable . ’ |
| 3 | On his first day , Monday , 1 February , Terry arrived at the building — which was recently opened by Sir Ralph Robins , chairman of Rolls-Royce plc — to find there was more going on than a usual day 's work ; they were cleaning up in the aftermath of a fire . |
| 4 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 5 | In their futile endeavour Joseph Chamberlain and his contemporaries were only re-enacting in modern dress the plot of the mideighteenth-century drama , by proceeding as if a common will and desire to be subordinate existed when it did not . |