Example sentences of "[v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
2 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
3 | At the time of writing none of the other firms is quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market or the Stock Exchange . |
4 | Hodgson Holdings was then the biggest quoted funeral director in Britain , handling one in every twenty funerals nationwide , although the Co-op is still the biggest throughout the British Isles , doing about twenty-five per cent of all funerals . |
5 | Several parliamentary sessions under Henry VIII passed without any direct taxes being asked or given ; and Mary , at the start of her reign , even remitted the outstanding part of the last subsidy granted under Edward VI , asking nothing from the two parliaments of 1554 . |
6 | To achieve a fine white printing quality , the paper is oxygen bleached , thereby having none of the detrimental effects on the environment which are inherent in the conventional chlorine bleaching process . |
7 | After all , I was more of an outsider there than at home , being out of my milieu and having none of the social graces or advantages of my fellow-pupils . |
8 | It 's a unique opportunity to do something really strong for the sake of the restoration of my citizenship , while at the same time by that of course I 'm doing something for the human rights of every single citizen in Czechoslovakia . |
9 | But for Cara and Liam and Odette , it meant sleeping downstairs all together by the fire with the dog and even then not really keeping warm ; chipping ice from the water barrels every morning with blistered fingers ; doing something about the worn soles of her boots . |
10 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |
11 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
12 | Knowing nothing about the likely sums involved , or the intentions of Viola 's younger son , the discussion was inconclusive , but as he stopped his car outside its magnificent , unpaid-for garage , Desmond said : ‘ I think I 'd better keep an eye on young Hilary . ’ |
13 | But the incidence of Down 's is such that a process of integration would only involve one child with Down 's entering one in every 20 classes in normal primary schools . |
14 | Not finding anything among the existing styles to which she was exposed , she created her own , dedicating it to the Buddhist nun who had taught her , but naming it after herself . |