Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] [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 | Yet exactly the same trait , if too high , can disrupt and disable , in some cases bringing about the symptoms of anxiety neurosis . |
| 3 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This exclusion is designed to focus the Merger Regulation on operations bringing about a lasting change in the structure of the undertakings concerned . |
| 6 | She ate dinner alone before a fire made of driftwood that sent salty blue flames leaping up the chimney . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Much of its stealth comes from a design that minimises the chance of radar waves bouncing back the way they came . |
| 15 | He has just broken one of his records deliberately and is on his knees picking up the pieces as he talks to himself . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He drew her against him , his lips seeking out the smooth plane of her cheek , the full , ripe curve of her mouth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was trembling now , his back still against the door , his eyes searching out the ill-formed contours within the room . |
| 20 | Housekeeper and companion Muriel Fryatt was on her knees cleaning out a fire grate on the morning of February 6 , 1952 . |
| 21 | And I used to go down you used to see all the mams and kids going down the moors here , taking their dad 's tea , down in the fields , so they could have a bit of something and then finish as got dark . |
| 22 | So therefore you got motorbikes going up the ramps , which were n't designed for that . |
| 23 | A large percentage of recent spring birds have been recorded in parties flying up the Channel during the offshore movements of ducks , waders and terns , which are such a feature of spring migration in Sussex . |
| 24 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 25 | Speaking at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union , Lin Callis of NASA suggested that up to 75 per cent of the decline could be a result of the fluctuating solar cycle , with a build up of electrons and neutrons breaking down the ozone . |
| 26 | You could already see those vipers sorting out the Ambre Solaire . |
| 27 | The simplest way of changing scenes is , simply , to cut : but this is often rather drastic , and risks breaking up the flow of the film . |
| 28 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 29 | Miranda had a skewed air , her dark curls sprang up on her head so that the younger girl noticed little black hairs running down the vertebrae of her neck to the nape ; there was a feral shine and speed to her too , something uncontained , and it scared the younger girl . |
| 30 | They are mentioned by name on eighteenth-century maps and referred to in Sir Walter Scott 's The Bridal of Triermain ; they are often supposed to mark the county boundary , which they do not , and the most popular theory is that they were erected at the time of the Border raids to delude Scots advancing up the Eden valley , from which they are conspicuously in view , into the belief that an English army was encamped there . |