Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate . |
| 2 | Using the best of the season 's fruits we 've put together a delicious array of puddings that are easy to make and wo n't pile on the pounds . |
| 3 | One of the proposals to relieve traffic congestion on Buxton Road seemed to envisage — details were difficult to obtain using the trackbed of the railway line together with a 100 feet wide portion of the field to create an urban motorway . |
| 4 | He realised that the Communist parties had lost touch with their peoples and that he could not logically denounce Stalinist terror and neo-Stalinist stagnation in his own country without accepting the same for the countries which Stalin forcibly incorporated into the Soviet empire . |
| 5 | He quoted many authorities , both in the USA and GB who made it clear that the viewing and the funeral ceremonies are extremely important in bringing the bereaved to a state of acceptance and eventual recovery . |
| 6 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 7 | ‘ Catching the last of the sun 's rays , ’ said Luke . |
| 8 | Right now he 's away on a skiing holiday catching the last of the snow . ’ |
| 9 | Seeing the lowest of the low on a daily basis made you glad your child was normal . |
| 10 | MOST VISITORS to Scotland intent on seeing the best of the scenery , and especially those coming from over the Border , tend to travel northwards in stages , halting often to view places already familiar or else recommended in guidebooks . |
| 11 | Party leader John Bruton , launching the first of the campaign manifestos , said the Reynolds ' government had still left unemployment at a near-record high level . |
| 12 | In the very book of Malachi from which he derived the understanding of his own mission to prepare the way of the Lord , he would have read of fire both burning up evil-doers and also refining and purifying the faithful like a refiner 's fire ( Mal. 4 : If , 3:1–4 ) . |
| 13 | As chairman of an access group representing the disabled in the town , she said she had written to two leading Labour councillors asking the Labour group to reject the recommendations . |
| 14 | A student has made education history by becoming the first in the country to pass a new exam . |
| 15 | As the Thai economy boomed over the past three years , becoming the fastest-growing in the world , many commentators predicted that these great families were bound to lose their grip . |
| 16 | Prominent racing historian Reg Green said urgent action was needed to prevent the National that never was becoming the National without a future . |
| 17 | The original 147 clauses were expanded and added to , becoming the 238 of the legislation . |
| 18 | It is no good explaining the microscopic at the expense of the macroscopic . |
| 19 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 20 | The New Testament , despite its talk of God condemning the wicked to an eternity of weeping and gnashing of teeth in the fires of hell ( a level of violence , as one commentator has put it , surpassing anything spoken of in the Old Testament ) , has yet more challenges to offer , and not just in the Passion narratives . |
| 21 | Many academics and journalists who gave warning that liberalisation and the Congress Party culture were fattening the rich at the expense of the poor are understandably silent . |
| 22 | Spatz bowed , then returned behind his desk , opening the first of the files , running his finger over the apparently blank page , the warmth of his touch bringing the characters alive briefly on the specially treated paper . |
| 23 | He would have been at the Crystal Palace too , willing me on to my first AAA Championship title , revelling in the rivalry , matching the best of the youngsters from Haringey . |
| 24 | There was plenty of open rugby but with Instonians gaining the better of the forward encounters especially in the loose , their three-quarters had the better opportunities to move the ball . |
| 25 | Slowly , almost imperceptibly the towers and battlements grew , reaching upwards , the darkness of a bad dream devouring the last of the day . |
| 26 | Devouring the last of the berries were redwing , too . |
| 27 | Javer served for the match at 5–2 in the second , but was taken to seven deuces , before blasting a backhand to the Turk 's feet to snatch the rubber on her sixth match point after one hour 12 minutes . |
| 28 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 29 | Ten yards ahead we are passing the cut-through beneath the viaduct . |
| 30 | They were passing the last of the houses now . |