Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 2 | In the opening shot I see Garfield at a lectern reading aloud from a Shakespeare first edition , bound in unborn calf . |
| 3 | ‘ Then you are without female dependants , ’ said Sophia , almost like a chairman summing up at a meeting . |
| 4 | So I tried the RSPCA inspector , but it seemed he was more concerned with a cow wandering about in a shopping mall in Carmarthen . |
| 5 | There 's a club meeting here for a social weekend — I think they like to keep their places warm here for when coarse fishing starts again . |
| 6 | As Sampson observes , the phytogenetic account above of the simultaneous growth of phrase structure and transformational rules yields a prediction agreeing nicely with a principle formulated by the Chomskians . |
| 7 | Suddenly from below came the unmistakable sound of gunfire , the roar of a shotgun sounding along with a short sharp burst of a machine gun . |
| 8 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 9 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 10 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 11 | ‘ From my point of view it was like a child climbing up on a wall to look in but she rushed back and said : ‘ No , I ca n't do it , ’ and started crying in my arms . |
| 12 | This was a work which evolved almost by accident , when a boy swinging playfully from a lamp post near a wall covered in graffiti , challenged the artist to draw him . |
| 13 | This was a work which evolved almost by accident , when a boy swinging playfully from a lamp post near a wall covered in graffiti , challenged the artist to draw him . |
| 14 | So a boy coming up through a family that was involved in riveters would sort of more or less |
| 15 | Her descriptions tell of a village changing slowly to a motorcar age , and perhaps forecasts the future in references that smithies have been replaced by garages and advertisements for petrol from the ‘ golden pump ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Ram ’ features more work using semen , aggressively sexual words and a jackhammer humping away against a wall . |
| 17 | But one , hung in the dining room , by a window looking out onto a most majestic ancient cedar tree , is strikingly different to all the others . |
| 18 | Artist Janet Margrave has created a window opening on to a scene of flowers , ivy-clad trellis , a rush fringed pool and trees . |
| 19 | Isambard caught up both , and stood for a moment staring down with a formidable frown at Harry , who nursed his bruised wrists and glared back , expecting a blow and tensing every muscle to receive it without a tremor . |
| 20 | Drunks , men coming from the clubs , occasionally a seaman coming home with a kitbag on his shoulder and you would say good night to him . |
| 21 | The probability of a particle getting out of a black hole of the mass of the sun would be very low because the particle would have to travel faster than light for several kilometers . |
| 22 | My vision is of a team pulling together with a common aim and purpose to give glory to God and see His Kingdom extended in our part of the South Side of Glasgow . |
| 23 | The snow was relatively unmarked here , packed high around a great wooden post with a beam jutting out like a scaffold . |
| 24 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 25 | So the silhouette of the Dalek actually came directly from the shape of a person sitting down in a chair . |
| 26 | This will be immediately preceded by the dispatch from the tail-gate of the aircraft of a ‘ wedge ’ , a platform containing up to a ton of stores . |
| 27 | A more common description of potential energy is of an object such as a ball resting precariously on a ledge . |
| 28 | For instance , you and your friend are jacked in and you want to describe a ball falling out of a tree . |
| 29 | ANYONE who has tried to sight a ball coming out of a dark background as dusk falls will quickly agree that sightscreens are a very important part of any cricket ground . |
| 30 | At the moment he holds bungee jumping days in Manchester , Birmingham , and the Lake District , with up to 100 people a day diving headlong off a 170ft crane on the end of a 30ft elasticated rope which stretches to 150ft . |