Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
| 2 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 3 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 4 | Unfortunately Lady le Fleming 's agent appeared to take Leathart 's advice a little too literally and caused great concern to the partners by proposing a covenant binding them to prevent " all water " from filtering down into any part of the mine below Deep Level . |
| 5 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 6 | In 1989 the government was still pressing on with further measures of privatization , reforming the legal profession and health service , resisting moves to greater integration within the European Community , and implementing the new system of local government finance and a reformed education system . |
| 7 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 8 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 9 | The unknown is always the most fearsome , opening out into wide areas of conjecture . |
| 10 | And that 's the kind of singling out of one group of workers , and making a special case for them , that she really disapproved of . |
| 11 | Tess seemed like a queen to Clare , perhaps because he knew that she was the most beautiful woman walking about at this time of day . |
| 12 | He gets all over the pitch , and I could see him fitting in in all kinds of areas , he used to be good for Spurs even when the defence came under pressure , and he 'd tackle back , becoming the ball winner . |
| 13 | THE FIASCO that has surrounded Europe 's Super-SARA experiment into nuclear safety — a project that has cost £100 million but is now to be abandoned part-built — is spilling over into another arena of big-budget research , nuclear fusion . |
| 14 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 15 | And we 're only seeking up to one percent of development costs . |
| 16 | And the chances are that Best will be teaming up with another hero of the game , Rodney Marsh , for a double act that could rival the popular Saint and Greavsie . |
| 17 | The picking out in black paint of the window surrounds and pediment was also instigated by the Georgian rector , and is very much in the Welsh tradition . |
| 18 | Grahame begins the prologue of The Golden Age with the wistful phrase , ‘ Looking back to those days of old , ere the gate shut behind me … |
| 19 | Looking back over this chronicle of destruction we are struck by Shakespeare 's revelation of the unsuspected depths of evil connected with hypocrisy . |
| 20 | They sat in silence then looking out to either side of the steeply tumbling rocks interspersed with dry , hard Mediterranean shrubs . |
| 21 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |
| 22 | She stood with it in her hand , looking about for some signs of a waiting servant . |
| 23 | Several unions , conscious that their membership had fallen in recent years and looking round for new areas of recruitment , homed in on " non-standard " workers . |
| 24 | in the second half so we can expect to see Collimore racing on to all sorts of long balls now . |
| 25 | Figure 2 shows what happens when you tell the computer to obey exactly the same drawing rule , but going on to various depths of recursion . |
| 26 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 27 | As noted above , a majority of Oxfordshire teachers are in favour of going on to second round of reviews and reports . |
| 28 | Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports . |
| 29 | Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level . |
| 30 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |