Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |
| 2 | Heath and his colleagues next abolished the parliament and constitution of Northern Ireland in defiance of all Commonwealth constitutional precedent and despite the fact that the action was a unilateral tearing up of an international treaty registered at the League of Nations . |
| 3 | The work involves the legal processes of obtaining probate of wills and the winding up of a deceased person 's affairs so that the wishes expressed in those wills may be carried out . |
| 4 | The winding up of the New Town Development Corporations began in the mid-1980s , and in December 1986 the Minister for Housing said that all of the New Town Development Corporations would have gone by 1992 . |
| 5 | There are three basic considerations : ( 1 ) the need to avoid the consequences of a dissolution and winding up of the whole business ; ( 2 ) the need to define the circumstances in which leaving the partnership is permitted or made compulsory ; and ( 3 ) the need to anticipate the financial and administrative consequences of the departure of members of the firm . |
| 6 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 7 | The post-tour inquest led to the WRU secretary , David East , and the president , Clive Rowlands , walking out of a general committee meeting . |
| 8 | Spackman is seen walking out of a black niche , his right leg forward , and the right hand holding the winding-sheet against the outer thigh ; underneath he wears an open shirt with broad cuffs from which the draw-strings have been released . |
| 9 | A CONVICTED wife-killer who fled to the Irish Republic after walking out of a mental hospital was being flown back to Britain today , police said . |
| 10 | He 's got a little kid in one hand and he 's walking out of a burning building . |
| 11 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |
| 12 | A notorious Australian criminal is behind bars again eight weeks after walking out of an open prison . |
| 13 | If mirth it was : she heard these sad wails and thought , I 'm laughing out of the wrong side of my mouth … |
| 14 | With techno enjoying a second coming in Leeds and banging out of every other shop in the renovated arcades on Saturdays , some people were getting home after a day 's shopping and fancying something a bit different . |
| 15 | They drove back down to Florence , the Captain silent and thoughtful , the Substitute smoking , making the occasional rapid remark , watching the passing of the wet , ploughed soil between rows of vines and the tops of umbrella pines appearing out of the misty valley far below , smoking … |
| 16 | They saw the temple of the sun and the temple of the moon , driving out of the huge city past a tangle of ravines and yellow clifftops hung with shacks of corrugated iron and this and that . |
| 17 | climbing out of the middle window . |
| 18 | Doyle was just climbing out of the shattered window of the junk shop . |
| 19 | DANNY MEDDINGS continued his run of form with a surprisingly easy victory over Welsh No 1 , Adrian Davies , in last night 's opening round of the Daily Express British Players ' Championship at Cheshunt , Hertfordshire , writes Elspeth Burnside . |
| 20 | They have been punished by being stripped of their ability to claim benefit and by the pushing down of the real value of their training allowance . |
| 21 | The royal couple 's individual humanity , rather than their status , has made most impact ; Charles 's unflagging curiosity , reports of Diana shaking hands with a leper in Indonesia , her instinctive picking up of an old woman 's dropped walking-stick . |
| 22 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 23 | The casings were a little way to the right , spilling out of a back door to the club . |
| 24 | It was n't difficult to imagine it wriggling out of a cigar-shaped object on Wimbledon Common . |
| 25 | The third term represents the effects of random chance , both via ‘ unintended ’ bequests ( in an imperfect annuity market ) and via saving out of the uncertain element of lifetime income . |
| 26 | The Woman 's voice came swimming out of a great blankness , forcing itself on him . |
| 27 | From time to time persons distinguished in the fields of making war , healing , diplomacy , or mere grace in the sight of kings , have been granted augmentations to their armorial bearings ; and the discovery of , and comment on , these can — where they are relevant — make a small but useful contribution to the rounding out of a local history . |
| 28 | Operating out of a tiny flat on the Left Bank , the cell had succeeded in spreading some interesting biochemical havoc across half of the United European Community . |
| 29 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 30 | He leaned sideways , looking out of the opened perspex canopy of the plane . |