Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a major problem in Namibia , where almost all the private media are urban-oriented , reflecting mostly the interests and viewpoints of the urban elite while wittingly or unwittingly neglecting those of the rural inhabitants who constitute a greater percentage of the country 's total population . |
| 2 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 3 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 4 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 5 | Hanging on the hours like heliotropes |
| 6 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 7 | Leave a crust of blood hanging on the nails |
| 8 | Now they sat in the tiny dressing room , their washing hanging on the radiators , eating health food and tirelessly sending information and soft-focus photographs of themselves to directors , theatres , agents , TV companies and producers . |
| 9 | We left our belongings hanging on the handlebars and |
| 10 | She sees her wig and familiar clothing , dry now , still hanging on the backs of chairs to one side of a dead fire . |
| 11 | He looked at the springy , sharp-edged lawn , the borders of stocks and pansies backed by honeysuckle and late roses , the baskets of purple trailing lobelias , red geraniums and white alyssum hanging on the walls . |
| 12 | We got back home and everything was still hanging on the walls , but there was more missing from the store . |
| 13 | Sedan chair ( linked to three — a tree ) : A blossom tree with sedan chairs hanging on the branches instead of flowers ; |
| 14 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 15 | ‘ Even bringing down the charges to £4 means the council will be incurring a £40,000 loss . |
| 16 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 17 | Now I promise to devote myself to bringing down the costs of your mortgages because I believe that people should be able to own their own homes and to own them cheaply . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 19 | Away from her mother and father and sister and grandmother was bad enough , but the worst thing for Belle was opening her eyes and seeing only the walls around her . |
| 20 | Glowing out at night — by bike with luminous tyres which allow more safety when speeding down the roads at night . |
| 21 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 22 | ‘ Discursive consciousness ’ , by contrast , refers to ‘ what actors are able to say , or to give verbal expression to , about social conditions , including especially the conditions of their own action ’ . |
| 23 | Their flexibility , however , enables the trustees to make payments in a manner most suited to all the circumstances , including especially the needs of individual beneficiaries and the fiscal situation . |
| 24 | Those eggs that did survive would have done so only because they contained , as hang-overs from the species ' earlier aquatic way of life , genes pertinent to a more aqueous existence , including perhaps the genes for nuptial pads . |
| 25 | Then he stared down at the floor , gathering together the threads of the day . |
| 26 | The new designation will enable the Fisheries Service to overrule opposition to drawing down the reservoirs that is expected from the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bonneville Power Administration , who control both the dams and the electricity they produce . |
| 27 | Most experts agree that restoring the balance would entail a massive engineering project drawing down the levels of the reservoirs to below that of the dams to enable young fish to reach the sea quicker . |
| 28 | Since about 1979 , the plaintiff had been keen to sell Caliban and had employed a number of estate agents for that purpose , including apparently the defendants . |
| 29 | Kinnock improved his image most on being energetic and decisive but actually lost ground on being able to stand up to the USSR , reflecting perhaps the consequences of his ‘ dad 's army ’ interview with David Frost . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've spent years reconstructing , integrating , analysing and just plain digging through mud ; cataloguing alien ruins square centimetre by square centimetre and sticking together the pieces of damaged artifacts to form implausible shapes . |