Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN ROLFE and Adrian Breton will be competing for a British Olympic place at the weekend when the rapid fire pistol match in the World Cup Tournament in Los Angeles will be the decider for Barcelona , writes Leslie Howcroft . |
| 2 | Prevent plants in containers and hanging baskets from drooping during a long hot summer by adding water-retentive gel , such as Broadleaf P4 , to the compost . |
| 3 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 4 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 5 | The duke president of Youth Clubs UK , catering for a million young people said the scheme was long overdue . |
| 6 | When one is engaged in seeing through a major public project , when that project concerns the international inheritance that is Venice , and when the whole is being financed with State money , the first guideline that should be brought into play is the moral yardstick . |
| 7 | However , his abiding passion for collecting recipes and formulas kept him experimenting for a further twenty years , perfecting the transfer-printing process . |
| 8 | This carried them to the Plain of Finuval where the shattered remnants of the Elf armies were assembling for a desperate last stand . |
| 9 | He was replaced by Oscar Orbos , the Transport and Communications Secretary , whom Aquino was believed to be cultivating as a possible presidential successor on the expiry of her current term of office in 1992 . |
| 10 | Third provides direct drive and fourth an overdrive , driving through a new two-piece propshaft to a 3.07:1 rear axle . |
| 11 | Seating 43 passengers , the power unit , driving through a mechanical five-speed gearbox , was at the front , with the coach body hinged to the power unit . |
| 12 | You 're driving through a hot desolate expanse . |
| 13 | Stings in " ed form are taken as they are , with a possible error occurring for a missing closing quote . |
| 14 | He spent three years at Charing Cross Hospital School of Nursing before qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in 1983 . |
| 15 | In the women 's semi-finals , Glasgow Powerhouse captain Morag Brown is bidding for a 12th Scottish Cup final appearance . |
| 16 | Schwantz , winner of 19 Grands Prix in a fruitless search for the world title , was joined on the front row by fellow American Wayne Rainey , bidding for a fourth successive crown , and Australian prospect Daryl Beattie . |
| 17 | A GOOD day for Scotland 's bowlers yesterday saw the women 's side set up a home international decider this afternoon against England while the men 's team , bidding for a third successive title , cruised to a convincing win over Ireland . |
| 18 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 19 | But inevitably , others in the company were pressing for a greater commercial awareness . |
| 20 | In addition to the two-year probation order , Ironside was banned from driving for a further two years . |
| 21 | Michael Joyce was an entrepreneur rather than a builder by trade , though his son elevated this to ‘ architect ’ when applying for a German military passport in 1941 . |
| 22 | Perhaps he was still groping towards a fully-formed constitutional blueprint . |
| 23 | Within fifteen minutes he spotted it again in his rearview mirror , lurking behind a large French container lorry . |
| 24 | Worldwide , the costs of protecting against a substantial sea-level rise could be astronomical . |
| 25 | Incredibly , fourteen months later , in 1981 , his ego goaded him to the Bahamas and another fight , the fat jellied on his middle , his hand-speed sighing and wheezing like a busted old fan ; tropic rot on the trade winds . |
| 26 | This suggested that the artificial magnets were interfering with a natural magnetic sense . |
| 27 | Opening with a breezy Kabalevskian Overture , Smolsky 's self-avowed folk origins come to the fore in the highly distinctive First Dulcimer Concerto , composed in a broadly neo-classical style ( typically spiced with an occasional dash of bi-tonality ) , but imbued with an expressive force which transcends the often impersonal stance that such an approach can result in . |
| 28 | Back on board , the senior consultants , having had a council of war , open up with a full frontal attack of heavy verbal artillery , ending with a chilling final volley : ‘ Most of us will be taking samples home for analysis . ’ |
| 29 | The English Schools Trophy is effectively the schoolboy F A Cup , played for by about two hundred district teams throughout the country , and ending with a two legged final , at which Oxford have appeared on four different occasions ; the earliest back in nineteen O eight , and the most recent in nineteen seventy four , when unfortunately , as with all the previous three , we were defeated , on that occasion by Manchester boys , yet er the home leg was played in front of a crowd of twelve thousand people , which was the highest recorded crowd at the Manor that season . |
| 30 | The girl , fittingly , is quite unmoved , giving him two clear rejections , ending with a fine rhetorical flourish : ( " Go now , beggar ! |