Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 2 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 3 | Gun battles between rival gangs of inmates had left 18 prisoners dead following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Olivero Chavez Araujo , a self-styled drug baron serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 4 | It is difficult now to realise the scandalised horror with which not only the critics , but the general public in the 1920s and 1930s , greeted the fact that he could have used Victorian magazine illustrations fro producing the series of paintings called Echoes , or make portraits from press or publicity portraits of people such as the Prince of Wales , or public events such as Miss Earhart 's Arrival of 1932 . |
| 5 | Control individuals show weak staining in the apical region of the enterocytes thereby showing an uptake of PT-gliadin . |
| 6 | The upward trend in the market as a whole indicates the arrival both of products effectively exploiting the utilities of electronic media and a growing acceptance and appreciation among information users of the value of these utilities . |
| 7 | Only the queen of the social columns , recruited a couple of years previously from Calgary , sat calmly at her desk , her silver-tipped fingers delicately feeling the pulse of the city 's social life . |
| 8 | The Coach Drivers Club felt that £5 per day or part of a day for a coach was unreasonable for coaches only visiting the town for up to two hours . |
| 9 | The water is in contact with the peaks only bridging the ‘ valleys ’ and it is in these ‘ valleys ’ that much of the dirt is trapped . |
| 10 | Every legitimate group secures its fair share and the equilibrium of interest-group interaction provides for public policy that is a reasonable approximation of society 's preferences so securing the general interest at the same time as the overall system is rendered stable and legitimate . |
| 11 | Her hands had gone , involuntarily , to the buttons on her bodice , her fingers defensively closing the gap . |
| 12 | The timescale is then extended by using large felled timbers with patterns sufficiently overlapping the existing chronology to be certain of a unique match . |
| 13 | And back they go , their clear notes alone punctuating the silence . |
| 14 | Here and there one may find a row of houses all having the same supply , but very often two adjacent houses are supplied differently . |
| 15 | On Nov. 29 , 1989 , the second reading began in Parliament of a bill which would empower the government to nominate six non-elected members to the 81-seat legislature [ see p. 33403 for introduction of constitutional amendment in 1984 which created three " non-constituency " seats in parliament for unsuccessful opposition candidates thereby ensuring a limited opposition to the PAP ] . |
| 16 | Bank credit card ( Access , Barclaycard , Trustcard ) Flexible credit facility up to an agreed limit averaging £400 ) , for cash loans or credit purchases from the 100,000-plus shops etc. taking the cards ; must pay at least ( say ) five per cent of what you owe each month , but can choose to pay more ; no interest if you pay in full within 25 days of monthly statement ( except for cash drawings ) , interest on rest of debt changes periodically if bank base rate changes much . |
| 17 | Candidates successfully passing the Theoretical Examination — Spring 1993 |
| 18 | All utterances that were more than 10 words in length were broken down into clauses of less than 10 words thereby producing a total of 115 utterances with an average of 7.07 words and 26.56 phonemes per utterance . |
| 19 | Rates of progress are erratic : the transition from one idea to another may be accomplished by one pupil in a matter of minutes , whilst another will take months apparently covering the same ground . |
| 20 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 21 | This set of words is called the word-initial cohort , since it is a set of words all having the same initial sound . |
| 22 | It should also be noticed that the surfaces v = constant , considered as embedded in the three-space , consist of nested two-surfaces all having the line in common . |
| 23 | Tony Bailey , when he was talking just now , talked in terms of schools perhaps having an element of democracy within them . |
| 24 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 25 | She sat on a stool beside the Queen 's high-backed chair , her hands clenched tightly in her lap , eyes fiercely studying the fur-trimmed hem of Matilda 's crimson robe . |
| 26 | Except when there was a crisis , and these did happen , even on Friday afternoons , vast shockwaves suddenly jarring the normal smooth running of the system . |
| 27 | This would allow rapid identification of cloned DNA sequences thus avoiding the necessity to reculture the clones . |
| 28 | In some of the wrecks other young women were sitting : Miranda only saw then one naked girl in dark glasses leaning back on the banquette-style front seat of a big old Rover , thin white legs in heels just touching the cinder-strewn wasteground . |
| 29 | It also proposed granting $200 million to school districts already operating a voucher system allowing parents to choose between schools , and $30 million to those districts intending to establish such a system . |
| 30 | In ‘ Blue Fear ’ , Canadian artist Geneviève Cadieux invites us to consider the conventions of portraiture through the superimposition of a back view of the balding head and naked hairy shoulders of a man against a close-up , blue-toned shot of his blue eyes directly confronting the spectator : looked at , and looking . |