Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adv] [verb] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Over 15,000 piglets have died in transit from Germany at the Spanish border , after officials delayed their passage through concern that they might be carrying a newly discerned pig illness .
32 Highly qualified medical men , now earning significantly less than their ambulance drivers , are leaving the much vaunted health care system in droves , looking for jobs ( sometimes two or three ) which offer a passport to at least temporary insolvency .
33 She shrugged slightly , watching a brightly lit pavement café with yellow awnings flashing past , glimpsing an elegant square shaded by lofty date palms , and another elaborately carved shrine to some unknown saint decorating the street corner .
34 At the time of writing there are four teams handling new business and a further team of 12 people involved in servicing the now established client bank .
35 Following the recently installed Cashline machine , we were able to claim to be the only bank which offered tourists an engraving of the island 's most famous landmark from the cash-dispenser !
36 I have said ( in Chapter 2 ) that one can calculate the rate of protein synthesis by injecting a radioactively labelled amino acid into the bloodstream and measuring the amount of radioactivity to be found in the protein of particular brain regions after a given time .
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