Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grainne felt her heart thudding with such a fierceness that she could almost imagine he would hear it . |
| 2 | She was very pretty , this girl , dressed in a bright green cheong sam , her dark hair gleaming with natural oil , and framing a pert , oriental face . |
| 3 | Beside her Rune looked what he was , she thought — purposeful and determined , master of his own destiny , the skin of his golden jaw so smooth that he must have shaved again before coming to pick her up , his hair gleaming in molten strands as the sunlight played on it . |
| 4 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 5 | On the contrary , many of the cultures and their interrelationships are deeply marked by relations of discrimination and subordination stemming from structural inequalities . |
| 6 | I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps . |
| 7 | Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages , two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language . |
| 8 | But he was sufficiently master of himself to resist , and pulled out of her , his heart thumping like some crazy locked up in the cell of his chest . |
| 9 | She stopped immediately , her heart thumping in sudden fright as she saw that the chapel was occupied . |
| 10 | As I suggested in the previous chapter , the creation of the European Economic Area and the looming enlargement of the Community make possible the development of an EEC consisting of some twenty to twenty-five freely cooperating nations . |
| 11 | Secondly , the provision of better educational material for teaching naming to young children . |
| 12 | Seated on one stool by the wall of the hut , with her foot resting on another , Paige stared gloomily at Travis 's figure down by the water 's edge . |
| 13 | Gall bladder volumes were calculated from the measured parameters with the software of the ultrasound unit , assuming that the shape of the gall bladder approximated a solid with elliptical sections , the excentricity depending on that at the level of the greatest transverse section . |
| 14 | This in turn causes the protein to fold up in an incorrect way , which results in the haemoglobin molecules sticking to each other . |
| 15 | If , as Marxism postulates , the final catastrophe of Capitalism is to be triggered by a crisis of under-utilisation of capacity and of over-supply of goods , then the General Theory provides the remedy : a positive investment policy by the State and deficit financing in certain circumstances . |
| 16 | The feedforward circuit has a retina consisting of fifteen inputs . |
| 17 | She presents us with a glistening floor bordered by a number of bells hanging from long ropes , each lit from above to produce its own pool of light . |
| 18 | anapaest ( US anapest ) In prosody , a foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable : I am " mon/arch of " all/I sur'vey . |
| 19 | True blank verse is written in iambic pentameters ( that is , each line is divided into five metrical feet , each foot consisting of two syllables with the stress on the second syllable ) . |
| 20 | In poetry , a foot consisting of one long syllable followed by two short . |
| 21 | In poetry or prose , a disyllabic foot consisting of one short , followed by one long syllable ( classical scansion ) or with stress on the second syllable ( English poetry ) . |
| 22 | They wore ‘ jewellery ’ of sloe and hawthorn berries , blues and reds hanging from thorny crowns . |
| 23 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 24 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 25 | In their efforts to weld together into a coherent master plan proposals deriving from several different sources : party politics , expert advisers , and Home Office experience , Jenkins and his senior civil service adviser constituted an unusually perceptive and skilful partnership . |
| 26 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 27 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 28 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 29 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 30 | This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges . |