Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 2 | The commission has responsibility for appointing auditors for local authorities using either the District Auditor service or auditors from the private sector . |
| 3 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 4 | Yet exactly the same trait , if too high , can disrupt and disable , in some cases bringing about the symptoms of anxiety neurosis . |
| 5 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 6 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 7 | This exclusion is designed to focus the Merger Regulation on operations bringing about a lasting change in the structure of the undertakings concerned . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 9 | She ate dinner alone before a fire made of driftwood that sent salty blue flames leaping up the chimney . |
| 10 | The emigration has been encouraged by a series of British Nationality Acts stripping even the 3.25 million people holding Hong Kong ‘ British ’ passports of any rights to residence in Britain . |
| 11 | They appeared in law school classrooms and law review articles , then as lawyers ' arguments in particular cases at law , then as judicial arguments in dissenting opinions explaining why the majority opinion , reflecting the orthodoxy of the time , was unsatisfactory , then as the opinions of the majority in a growing number of cases , and then as propositions no longer mentioned because they went without saying . |
| 12 | The following morning we were up at 3.00am , accepted slices of bread and jam and joined the line of headtorches walking up the glacier . |
| 13 | However , tests showed that a faster schedule could be operated with a train of Gresley 's comfortable coaches seating double the number of passengers and hauled by one of his steam ‘ Pacific ’ type locomotives . |
| 14 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 15 | The scene is before me as I write , the garden with its sun-warmed walls , the last of the black cherries hanging on the tree , the sky webbed with long pink clouds . |
| 16 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 17 | It is a daunting sight : a seventeen-foot drop through a complex arrangement of boulders , holes , standing waves , scissor waves , and lateral waves rebounding off a sheer wall on the right . |
| 18 | A public discussion was held between the groups , the designers explaining how the machines would work . |
| 19 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 20 | In string theories , what were previously thought of as particles are now pictured as waves traveling down the string , like waves on a vibrating kite string . |
| 21 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 22 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 23 | IF EVER any miserable bastards were looking for evidence in the tedious ‘ American Bands Are Better Than Their Limp Bit Counterparts ’ argument , then the imbalance between Yanks Velvet and Glaswegian wranglers Perspex would ( unfortunately ) send the US-ophiles sprinting around a victory lap at Wem-ber-lee Stadium . |
| 24 | He drew her against him , his lips seeking out the smooth plane of her cheek , the full , ripe curve of her mouth . |
| 25 | Projections suggest that FUNCINPEC will have 57 seats in Cambodia 's constituent assembly , against the CPP 's 52 , with minor parties picking up the remaining 11 seats . |
| 26 | In schools serving either the suburban middle classes or the semi-skilled occupational groups on a council estate the classification of children by gender was weaker than that found in the ‘ traditional working-class ’ school . |
| 27 | But she ultimately reached the Rante and was lifted up the death-house steps looking little the worse for wear and , if anything , pinker with health . |
| 28 | From tomorrow trailers will be restricted to still pictures detailing only the name , price , publisher and availability of the magazine . |
| 29 | He was trembling now , his back still against the door , his eyes searching out the ill-formed contours within the room . |
| 30 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |