Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 2 | Any tendency to increase the ratio of surface area to weight would help , for example flaps of skin growing out in the angles of joints . |
| 3 | In Bohemia especially , with its long tradition of industrialisation stretching back to the 1830s , where there has always been a strong commitment to the idea of social equality , where the call for national equality against the Germans had a strong social context , it 's quite logical that some kind of socialist or social thought will in the end prevail . |
| 4 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 5 | Set on a hilltop , the old town is surrounded by seven rows of ramparts leading up to the bastion and cathedral at the summit . |
| 6 | ( By the ‘ original pattern ’ I mean the pattern as designed for single bed knitting , not as punched out for double jacquard ; the double jacquard card is of course moving on at every row . ) |
| 7 | So they risked all , and late one night when she heard a low whistle she rose from her straw pallet in the lower scullery and crept out of the house ; and when Tristram had climbed over the wall , she gave herself to him there on the midnight grass with the summer moon blazing down through the trees and the scent of honey wafting up from the silent hives . |
| 8 | Not raising her head , nor even starting , at the sudden clamour of birds squabbling out in the clearing . |
| 9 | Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic . |
| 10 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 11 | ‘ Only that Frank has seen him a number of times coming out of a special house down there . |
| 12 | There was a hissing sound of milk boiling over on the stove behind her and she managed to twist herself sideways and grab the saucepan . |
| 13 | The primary reason for this was the large increase er in the population of Germany arising out of the reunification of country . |
| 14 | Now they were talking about perhaps four tons of bombs toppling out of the sky one morning when Dornhausen thought the war had passed it by . |
| 15 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 16 | There is another pair of climbers starting up from the same ledge . |
| 17 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 18 | One sunny weekend at the end of April 1990 , there are forty-six would-be members of Parliament milling around in the lobby of a formless overnight stopover near Heathrow Airport . |
| 19 | On the short mixed ridge leading to this minor training summit , you can view an endless stream of parties coming up from the Grands Montets cablecar station for a taste of a real alpine mountaineering . |
| 20 | He left the car again , and saw something else on the other side of it — a pair of legs jutting out from the bushes nearby . |
| 21 | The first of these sets the amount of effect coming in from the JMP 's effects loop — a really good idea and all amps should have this in some form . |
| 22 | The vineyards of Bergères-les-Vertus are largely an extension of the lower slopes of Vertus reaching down to the southern tip of the Côte des Blancs . |
| 23 | They stared at the flat blade of rock jutting out of the turf-clad flank of the hill . |
| 24 | But what one chiefly saw was a landscape patterned by the long lines of vine running up to the wooded hilltops , a supremely domesticated landscape . |
| 25 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 26 | She tries to push it out and black beads form on her skin , ribbons of dark flowing out into the water . |
| 27 | THIS WEEK 's attempt to divert the flow of lava gushing out of the erupting Mount Etna in Sicily could be an expensive failure — because a British team of vulcanologists taking essential measurements has had to return home after its money ran out . |
| 28 | Then , he had become aware of a gout of light pouring down through the trees , and an ache of green against his eyes . |
| 29 | That 's a lot of light coming in on the back I think . |
| 30 | Keeping his gaze on the thread of light seeping out from the Bogeyman 's room , he inched his way along the threadbare strip of carpet . |