Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel 's face glistened in the gloom as she urged herself to her climax — sweat and staring eyes , tongue darting between dry lips , breath panting . |
| 2 | Gregarious , flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics . |
| 3 | The 17th annual conference of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions , held in London in October , endorsed the use of international standards on auditing for cross-border offerings and continuous reporting by foreign issuers . |
| 4 | Turn it into a utopian commune where women , gazing through mullioned windows at the lake , weave medieval tapestries . ’ |
| 5 | The drawing of lines between right and wrong [ or duty and obligation ] is being overshadowed by the need for cooperative adjustment and common improvement among States competing for limited resources . |
| 6 | In nature , many animals are competing for limited resources . |
| 7 | An additional problem is that Soviet organisations are automatically barred from competing for infra-structural projects sponsored by the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank , which require bidders to be members of these institutions . |
| 8 | Now that the national museums no longer have their purchase grants awarded separately from grant in aid for running costs , they fear that those will be further whittled away and they will be even less capable of competing for major masterpieces . |
| 9 | We may think of them as competing for various tenures . |
| 10 | There were cars in the streets and brash , noisy journalists crowded round hotel bars competing for sensational stories to wire to their papers . |
| 11 | He and Gros pulled every string , while canvassing for suitable volunteers from the Foreign Legion and the Field Service . |
| 12 | Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped . |
| 13 | I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm zapping through old classics from de Sade and Fanny Hill right through to William Burroughs and Henry Miller — all the dirty books one has heard of but never read . |
| 15 | Over copious beverages at a plush hotel in Notting Hill Gate , the stooping Lord of scabrous spleen-rock is speeding through scurrilous anecdotes about conspiracies within the monarchy , parties celebrating Freddie Mercury 's demise , sociopathic ex-Fall associates and much more . |
| 16 | From my own experience , service breaks of 15–20 years are not at all unusual , although older candidates do tend to underestimate the value of their past experience , apologising for personal inadequacies which , on further examination , do not exist . |
| 17 | Leafing through bound volumes of those old editions in Beirut , Abu Khadra could still experience the odd moment of journalistic triumph as old newspapermen tend to do , long after their papers have died . |
| 18 | The animals are packed with sufficient food and a source of moisture for the complete journey allowing for possible delays . |
| 19 | Allowing for stale prices and GARCH effects , they found that the volatility of futures returns led that of spot returns by fifteen minutes . |
| 20 | By and large , and allowing for spoiling operations at key points in the evening , programmes are arranged within time-slots to avoid outright competition for the same demographic group or taste constituency . |
| 21 | In the first stage of the transitional period legislation allowing for political parties was to be prepared , and a commission would be set up to draft a new constitution . |
| 22 | During the 1980s , however , there have been very marked changes in the levels of secondary school enrolment , even allowing for political disruptions . |
| 23 | Simply to maintain current patterns of expenditure will require considerable expansion of the budget , without allowing for technological changes in service provision . |
| 24 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 25 | Then Harald Szeemann proposed a new approach , allowing for personal mythologies . |
| 26 | ( Calculation of income , allowing for intra-family transfers and the imputation of taxes and benefits . |
| 27 | Article 6 assumes a series of delimitation agreements between adjacent States allowing for bilateral relationships within the overall multilateral regime . |
| 28 | This defeatism , unwarranted either by the fragility of Reagan 's mandate or by the public opinion polls , led the Speaker meekly to surrender his control over the legislative schedule by agreeing to an accelerated timetable allowing for final votes on the president 's programme by mid-summer . |
| 29 | But , after allowing for fixed costs , the couple 's disposable income will be severely squeezed . |
| 30 | ( 1983 ) provides an alternative estimate looking at benefits over 10 years ; the gain was almost $8 million this time , allowing for increased costs , taxes and interest . |