Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even allowing for a more diverse class-composition , this village inhabits another world from that other . |
| 2 | Conversely , Henry VII 's shell is more tubular , probably allowing for a more natural appearance of majesty when positioning the funerary sceptres in the hands . |
| 3 | I literally stopped seeing for a very long time . |
| 4 | ‘ At issue is a major part of the transmission system catering for a very substantial part of the country 's generation capacity . ’ |
| 5 | As a result of more able children taking up integrated placements or moving into school , the Beacon was now catering for a very small number of multiply disabled children , who were highly segregated as a result . |
| 6 | The random production might be regarded as the normal state of affairs , periodic production occurring through a rather special mechanism . |
| 7 | There are a number of studies which suggest that it is sensible to think of subjective risk when driving as a continually fluctuating quantity which may be related to both estimated and objective risk . |
| 8 | The dilemma facing Ray Gasson , is that after decades of being encouraged to expand and produce more , the message from Brussels now is to cut down production , while environmentalists are pressing for a completely different approach to farming . |
| 9 | It is a conversation between equals , even if you are applying for a relatively humble post . |
| 10 | Wee Jocky was apparently steaming after a particularly hospitable Hogmanay and played a blinder . |
| 11 | I went slowly , and presently found myself walking towards a most spectacular sunset . |
| 12 | Rupert went over in his mind the unattached women he knew , beginning with Esther Clovis , the formidable secretary of the Foresight Research Centre , and ending with a pretty young typist who worked in the department of the University where he lectured . |
| 13 | I share my hon. Friend 's analysis of the issue and later this afternoon I shall be announcing in a more detailed answer an increase in the RUC manpower establishment of 441 extra policemen . |
| 14 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 15 | The MIT-originated Sparcle CPU project described at Hot Chips ( UX No 395 ) proved to be an old LSI single-execution 40MHz Sparc CPU simplified for fine-grain multiprocessing in a highly parallel MIT system called Alewife . |
| 16 | Time seems to have stood still here and the only people who seem to be in a hurry are those passing through — driving in a typically Mediterranean style . |
| 17 | ‘ You terrified these people , both the staff and public in this fast-food outlet and you are lucky not to be appearing on a more serious charge ’ . |
| 18 | We visited Meiktila by plane and continued by air to Mandalay , landing on a very rough airstrip . |
| 19 | Lisa had been fully occupied explaining to a rather elderly lady why she could n't pick out the exact blooms that were to be delivered to her daughter-in-law in New Zealand . |
| 20 | Referring to widespread stresses Hare reviewed the carrying capacity of the earth , and planetary air pollution and climatic change with considerable vision and in ending on a fairly optimistic note commented : |
| 21 | A minority of landlords commanded sufficient capital to adapt successfully to farming based on hired labour and greater mechanization , thus contributing to a very sharp rise in Russia 's grain exports . |
| 22 | Returning to a more traditional style of presentation , and returning also to the question at issue in the light of the evidence presented above , I should like to offer the following conclusions : |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't need to be more famous , ’ he said last week after returning to a charmingly comfortable home converted from farm buildings some 15 miles to the north-west of Newcastle . |
| 24 | Teenage full back Phil Hardy looks almost certain to regain his left back spot after missing the last 11 games because of a foot operation , with utility man Wayne Phillips reverting to a more familiar midfield role . |
| 25 | As part of those programmes , on which we are committed to spend a further £1,400 million over the next three years , we are demolishing or redesigning tower blocks and deck access estates , rebuilding on a more human scale . |
| 26 | We then arrive at " 4 " with the completion of a lithostratigraphical formation " x " consisting of a seemingly uniform deposit of near-shore sediments , but — as I have already indicated — diachronous within itself . |
| 27 | Stamford , one of Hoskins ' ‘ open-field ’ towns , is actually made up of a Danish burgh , founded in 877 on the north side of the River Welland and consisting of a roughly rectangular block bisected by the east-west High Street , and an English burgh to the south of the river founded by King Edward in 918 , and consisting of a neat rectangular area bisected by the north-south St Martins High Street . |
| 28 | All that we have available is the notes for the first part of the introduction , written , presumably , in the spring , and consisting of a highly condensed discussion of Greek tragedy and its development . |
| 29 | You , the cat and the bacterium also share the feature that your body is made up of cells , the boundary between one cell and the next consisting of a very definite barrier called a membrane . |
| 30 | Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming . |