Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , the council had a large Labour majority with political decision making often restricted to the Labour group and with little debate in committees . |
| 2 | The main spasm of the Alpine orogeny came in Oligocene and early Miocene times , with the African plate grinding against Europe and the alpine chains spreading out to north and south like an opening fan . |
| 3 | It seduced his imagination : woolly wisps streaming past told him nothing ; he could be flying into a mountainside … or diving … or two seconds away from a collision … |
| 4 | How would you feel if the boot was on the other foot , and he was suggesting he went and spent all that money going away with his foot-loose and fancy-free brother ? |
| 5 | I 'll be able to guarantee that money coming in , even when i go back to work . |
| 6 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 7 | You 've got a total income coming in , er a total amount of benefit there of a hundred and three pounds thirty for this family . |
| 8 | Heavy metal cretins , evil aliens , pan-global pop celebs and long-lost spaceships drifting forever in the airless void of deep space — yep , those ELDORADO plotlines are finally picking up . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) might like to remember that in the polyester yarn sector , which is not covered by the question , there are anti-dumping suits going on , so we are pursuing the cases of which we are aware . |
| 10 | Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) . |
| 11 | But there is a lot of er sort of emotional interaction going on , and you 'll have to get used to that . |
| 12 | Technically , they are European institutions carrying on home-regulated investment business in the UK for the purposes of the Banking Co-ordination ( Second Council Directive ) Regulations 1992 ( the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 13 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 14 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 15 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 16 | The significance of economic support Drawing together the different strands of this discussion of economic support , we can ask : Who are the main beneficiaries within a family ? |
| 17 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 18 | Unless something in other parts of the legislation discloses such purpose , the courts are forced to adopt one of the two possible meanings using highly technical rules of construction . |
| 19 | There are many occurrences of volcanic activity in areas remote from plate margins ; the volcanoes of the East African Rift system , such as Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya , the volcanic and associated hydrothermal activity of the Yellowstone region in Wyoming , U S A ( Fig. 4.3 ) , and the chain of volcanic peaks making up the Hawaiian Islands are examples from both continental and oceanic regions . |
| 20 | He pulled it off and felt the cold air bite into his hot skin , his scanty hair standing up and waving gently in the breeze . |
| 21 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |
| 22 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 23 | In 1868 a flood of unprecedented proportions washed away most of the caissons ( the strong cases keeping out water while the foundations are built ) while the Skerne 's trusses were found to be flawless . |
| 24 | Why is all that noise going on behind you ? |
| 25 | Suddenly , blood sacrifice and small armed groups rising up against the state seemed worthy of three cheers . |
| 26 | Struggling into yet another of the brief garments bought for her by Ross — her trembling fingers fumbling awkwardly with the small scraps of material — Laura dearly wished that she had the courage to chicken out of the whole affair . |
| 27 | Half an hour later , her cotton wrap once more about her , though with a towel about her shoulders , Fabia , with her long newly washed hair clinging wetly to her , emerged from the bathroom . |
| 28 | He stood straighter in the water , his broad chest glistening wetly in the multicoloured light . |
| 29 | But individually they orbit at different speeds depending on their distance from the Sun , the innermost rocky planets orbiting much faster than the outer balls of frozen gaseous vapour , such as Jupiter , Saturn and Uranus . |
| 30 | However , ‘ there would be swearing , there would be people coming in drunk … staggering from the local pubs into the ground , but they were a tiny , tiny minority and you would get the odd fight breaking out ’ . |