Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 2 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 3 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 4 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 5 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 6 | Smith devised a technique using eight pieces of latex rather than one overall mask , including convincing eyelids . |
| 7 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 8 | On Dec. 26 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) quoted a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) spokesman in Baghdad as saying that " the justifications for maintaining economic sanctions against Iraq no longer existed " . |
| 9 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 10 | Even is we use only the lowest numbers available , based on official statistics , we are still seeing acute poverty for 873,000 people . |
| 11 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |
| 12 | And if the herd is threatened , they will gallop off together or maybe huddle together , touching each other for reassurance . |
| 13 | They stood almost touching each other for a full minute . |
| 14 | They have developed the pleasant habit of touching each other on the shoulder in time of trouble , as a sort of physical sympathy . |
| 15 | They were looking at each other and touching each other in such a funny way . |
| 16 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 17 | Organizing respectable credit for respectable people became the respectable part of an accountant 's work , whose training enabled him to ensure that it was sound , that is , within the bounds of profitability . |
| 18 | The highlight here is undoubtedly the 1955 Brahms Haydn Variations , one of his earliest ( mono ) recordings with the Philharmonia , which reveals the conductor in an extremely dynamic mood , shaping each Variation with incisiveness and great breadth of characterisation . |
| 19 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
| 20 | In its final form , it contained some half dozen suites of rooms in two wings opposing each other across a central court . |
| 21 | Even quite elderly people , male or female , could often earn something towards their maintenance , while the practice of assisting low-wage earners with large families of young children was widespread . |
| 22 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 23 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 24 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 25 | Congress should be asked to continue economic and military aid with the objective of achieving a well-trained , efficient army of 65,000 men , including air detachments adequate for maintaining political order inside South Korea , a coastguard of 4,000 men , and a police force of 35,000 possessing small arms and ammunition . |
| 26 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 27 | An essay on the pitfalls of including political words in a dictionary is wildly funny . |
| 28 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 29 | She dropped back and crouched to retrieve the shattered thing , gathering dry petals in the dip of her dress . |
| 30 | Judging by how well labels sell in the shops — and they do — the world and his wife must be using sticky labels on everything , including the kids . |