Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up and down , up and down , went that unwearying right foot of hers . |
| 2 | Its ability to trickle along at three-figure revs is legendary , and it has that thumping great reserve of power if you need it . |
| 3 | With each pursuing instant fulfilment |
| 4 | Less than 6 months ago there were approx half a dozen people each using makeshift alias lists ; now there 's 100 of us world-wide , literally . |
| 5 | This comparison was made more difficult by the existence of two organisations with a number of disparate functions , each using similar information but stored and utilised in different ways . |
| 6 | Over 16 million different colours are possible using eight-bit representation for the three additive primary colours since any value in the range 0–255 inclusive can be selected for any of the three memory banks . |
| 7 | Population studies of gastric acid secretion in children at risk from undernutrition are clearly not possible using conventional intubation techniques . |
| 8 | ‘ This is another multi-national using anti-union legislation to try to terrorise the workers into accepting cuts . |
| 9 | But there was little disguising Tory delight in what proved to be a highly effective exercise in damage limitation , despite the above-average swing towards Labour . |
| 10 | Grossly normal appearing gastric biopsy specimens were taken from healthy volunteers . |
| 11 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 12 | Could n't get round that doddering old snail . |
| 13 | That interfering old cow has never liked me . |
| 14 | ‘ Who is that interfering old busybody ? ’ |
| 15 | Unlike vertebrates , insects have muscles that contain relatively few fibres and to achieve smooth contractions they are supplied by multiple nerve endings some 30–80 µm apart , each inducing local contraction . |
| 16 | The motors are compact and powerful , some using rare earth magnets . |
| 17 | We have found an effective way to show the effect of different choices is to split the class into groups working with different bases eg. some using FIFO and some using average cost . |
| 18 | WHAT A GAS Barmy conservation chiefs say that this rusting old gasometer compares with Florence 's beautiful 15th century architecture |
| 19 | Another mystifying mind-body phenomenon is auto-suggestion . |
| 20 | The clientele seemed the same sort of rich mixture as ever , and the game of guessing who was what — could the distinguished looking old boy be a Thuringian baron , the owner of a launderette chain in South Dakota or a villain from South Croydon ? — kept all its old charm . |
| 21 | In the dream , he had a funny looking white towel wrapped round his neck , and that was when I woke up and remembered . |
| 22 | A total of 38 Japanese MPs submitted a petition to the Myanma embassy in Tokyo on Dec. 22 expressing deep concern " about the military 's suppression and murder of those who were demonstrating for democracy , freedom of speech and the enforcement of a general election next year " . |
| 23 | Calls varied , some resembling Gull-billed Tern ( p. 159 ) , others more laughing and gull-like , ‘ kau-kau ’ . |
| 24 | 17–4 Regulating Natural Monopoly |
| 25 | " I do n't often agree with what this aggravating old fool says , but this time I think she 's talking sense . " |
| 26 | Interior Minister Carlos Hurtado , had resigned on April 2 citing personal health problems , although it was widely known that he was hostile to Chamorro 's and Lacayo 's policy of co-operating with the Sandinistas . |
| 27 | Chatichai had turned down the leadership of the party to which he had formerly belonged , Chart Thai , on July 2 citing old age ( he was 70 ) and political reasons . |
| 28 | And so this grumbling three-legged race was run . |
| 29 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 30 | 2 RECONSTRUCTING URBAN SOCIOLOGY |