Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dead birds were to be seen everywhere , and live ones , in quarrelling flocks , feeding on the burst stacks and blown seed-corn ; stabbing the cheeses that shone in the short winter grass ; pecking at the dried skeins of fish ; fluttering trapped beneath torn scraps of net . |
| 2 | This will also help to prevent the disks from becoming filled with obsolete files . |
| 3 | Absorption is commonly used as a method of odour abatement where odour nuisance is the result of a gas stream becoming contaminated with low concentrations of mixtures of compounds such as fatty acids , ammonia , amines , sulphur dioxide , and perhaps to a lesser extent sulphides and organic sulphur compounds , i.e . |
| 4 | Storage on optical media is possible , using document image processing ( DIP ) technology , but standards for optical media are still very fluid , and we must avoid becoming trapped by non-mainstream hardware/software . |
| 5 | When she nodded , he went on , ‘ It would probably have been better if we had discussed it right at the beginning , and certainly when we realised we were becoming attracted to each other . ’ |
| 6 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 7 | Many parents and grandparents in the provinces followed ‘ the May-June events ’ on state-run television : their view of what was happening differed from that of the younger generation in Paris and university campuses across the country ; many students followed developments hour by hour on Europe I — if they did not themselves join the demonstrations and mount the barricades . |
| 8 | The session saw the consolidation of the work of the Advanced Courses Development Programme , with the new Higher National courses becoming incorporated in mainstream provision . |
| 9 | The concept stemmed from a great warrior of the past and tales of his valour and achievements becoming adorned with colourful details and highly magnified by constant telling . |
| 10 | Rather , it means that honour is becoming assessed in different ways . |
| 11 | Time and again Court politicians found themselves becoming tied to one party as the only way to pursue their policies effectively . |
| 12 | A third party may claim that it can participate in a treaty either fully , by becoming a party , or partially , by becoming bound by certain sections . |
| 13 | In one fell swoop , Virgin had acquired that most elusive of qualities , ‘ street credibility ’ ; the company roster now boasted groups like Magazine , Penetration , the Members , the Skids — what was becoming known as New Wave , a marketing term used to denote almost any performer that had emerged in the aftermath of punk who did not spit in his audience 's eye . |
| 14 | The sequence of developments to be outlined below is becoming known as K-type transition , with the implication that there are other types . |
| 15 | The type was developed considerably by German growers , with more amenable size , choice blooms and scent , becoming known as Hybrid Musks . |
| 16 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 17 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 18 | With the policy of selling local authority properties it is increasingly the worst housing that remains and thus lone mothers are becoming concentrated in this poor housing . |
| 19 | Pressure jetting followed by natural drainage , squeegee assisted , or by wet vacuum . |
| 20 | You are letting someone else 's voice and energy into your subconscious and as such , are becoming led by another person on whom you are then dependent for your changes and success . |
| 21 | It is also becoming polarized between those who own and those who rent their houses . |
| 22 | Nor can I accept any teaching that talks about becoming attuned to spiritual forces which have nothing to do with the Holy Spirit . |
| 23 | At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffoldings and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore . |
| 24 | At the present time , and for some months ( if not years ) to come , a subterranean roadway is being constructed under the harbour , and the diggings , scaffolding and shoring incurred by this vast undertaking are a pictorial eyesore . |
| 25 | Conran acknowledges that in the face of-City rumour it is important for a group such as his to communicate to the outside world what its overall strategy is and to spell out the logic of its master plan — something he feels Storehouse might have done to better effect prior to becoming besieged by unwelcome take-over bids . |
| 26 | Even those heathlands which have not been reafforested are rapidly becoming covered with silver birch and self-sown Scots Pine , due to lack of grazing management . |
| 27 | As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited . |
| 28 | Berg tapped into the unpalatable side of public opinion , becoming addicted to verbal wind-ups and hostility with fatal results . |
| 29 | What is happening is that the English rural landscape is slowly becoming divided into three major types in the lowlands . |
| 30 | I think few of us could avoid becoming attached to such a fish ! |