Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 2 | Time stood still in the attic room while they exchanged the most innocent of kisses and embraces , and McAllister faced her future , the bruises slowly disappearing from her wounded spirit under the healing power of true love . |
| 3 | It is agreed that the text of the Memorandum will be finalised by a committee of the Board probably consisting of [ specify names ] . |
| 4 | Its arm fell off , clattering to the deck with the Perk still clinging to it . |
| 5 | Outside , the day was already well advanced and sunlight glimmered on the waters of the canal below , the towpath already thronging with people . |
| 6 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 7 | Each successive generation from the reign of Edward I. onwards has laboured to produce that complete political unity which is represented by the absolute sovereignty of the Parliament now sitting at Westminster . |
| 8 | Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties . |
| 9 | She thought she saw the Germans still working in the fields , and now they were picking up potatoes from the muddy ground . |
| 10 | Balance , blend , and intonation are impeccable , enunciation is clear without resorting to tiresome sibilant/hard-consonant spitting , and everything emerges with an inner vitality which has the notes positively leaping off the page . |
| 11 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 12 | Drying time : wearable within the hour after drying in a warm room — if you do n't mind a few minutes of clamminess at the obvious places where the material is thicker such as the pockets and waistband . |
| 13 | Resits may take the form of an examination , or further coursework or both , the decision usually lying with the module leader . |
| 14 | Nor were the Russians always spoiling for a fight . |
| 15 | yeah and the girls that serve in there , there 's three girls that serve in there , one works in the kitchen actually helping with the food , but the other two serve at the tables , they 've all got A levels but they ca n't get jobs |
| 16 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 17 | In 1987 the Commission of the European Community produced its Green Paper on Telecommunications , this was in effect a continuation of the policies already emerging in France and Germany . |
| 18 | And with the recession now biting into the music industry , one desperate insider said this week : ‘ We have a wish-list of people we hope might pop their clogs before Christmas . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In a largely illiterate society this oral epic singing also had the function roughly corresponding to the modern mass media — it spread the political news , much more slowly but perhaps not less reliably than the modern press , radio and television . ’ |
| 20 | FOR progressively smaller values of T , until T is small alter the switches repeatedly according to this probabilistic rule . |
| 21 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full-cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 22 | Under most insurance systems , hospitals and health care providers supply services to insured patients and are then reimbursed for the services by the insurer either according to retrospective full cost reimbursement , or according to prospective reimbursement . |
| 23 | The driver swears but brakes as yet another tin mining family climb aboard the truck already bulging with people and their belongings . |
| 24 | He had the Intelligence and the Security and the Branch all burrowing in their computers for an Englishman called Colt who wiped people for the cause of the Republic of Iraq , and he had sweet nothing to do , unless he went eye to eye with the mysteries of the thermostat . |
| 25 | He took in the blood still dripping from Alexei 's sword , and then his eyes went to the blowpipe in Jehana 's hand . |
| 26 | Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres . |
| 27 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 28 | John , Lord Carteret [ later Earl of Granville ] , who succeeded him , was under no illusions about France , which he identified as ‘ the enemy always aiming at our destruction ’ ; periods of peace with her he considered ‘ only an intermission of hostility ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |
| 30 | As he uncovered them , he was confronted with the pageant , its gold and silverwork dazzling in the sunshine , and the weathercock gracefully bowing to the north in the breeze . |