Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stood there wretchedly in the street , watching the unbelievable actually happening in front of me , while my neighbours nervously hosed their roofs against flying sparks . |
| 2 | It was reported as the largest ever gathering of world leaders . |
| 3 | But this is not just any conference : it 's apparently going to be the greatest ever gathering of world leaders in one place at one time . |
| 4 | With the stable now returning to form after a lean spell , Afton Express should go close but I slightly prefer the more experienced RIVER HOUSE ( 1.15 ) , who jumped well when scoring over the course recently . |
| 5 | And eel-fishing looked much harder this time , the silver-grey often returning to its den empty-handed . |
| 6 | Tracer substances such as radioactive xenon are more rapidly removed from an inflamed joint — their half-life in the joint inversely correlating with the degree of inflammation — and so attempts to blame poor blood supply for the nutritional deficit are probably misconceived . |
| 7 | Each crypt consists of a superficial , longitudinal segment and a sonvoluted deep segment , the second usually appearing in transverse or oblique view on cut sections . |
| 8 | Typically , the broad changes are gradual , the addition or subtraction of a handful of courses or course combinations in any one year , the first usually reflecting potential student demand or research developments , and the second often stemming from resource and staffing problems . |
| 9 | Turning from aromatherapy for a moment , one good example of the natural clearly winning over the synthetic is to be found in the case of insulin . |
| 10 | Within this superficial understanding , the correct ideology was distinguished from the false solely according to the criteria of a realistic theory of knowledge . |
| 11 | Then it appeared at the end of the long straight leading into town . |
| 12 | The guilty baying their hatred , the innocent quietly pleading for a hearing . |
| 13 | All such changes are related not only to people 's work lives but to the decisions of ( often multinational ) house building companies ; the latter increasingly investing in ‘ up-market ’ houses and retirement homes for people who have seen the value of their home rapidly increase . |
| 14 | For the majority , an increasing casualness caused a crisis in the tie industry as young men discarded the item worn by their fathers even for digging the garden or carving the Sunday roast ; the latter simultaneously appearing on the endangered species list too , but as victim of inflation rather than fashion . |
| 15 | But Downes appeared not to hear the supplementary questions , and Dixon nodded to the constable who stood at the door , the latter now making for the canteen on a less than wholly specific mission . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , it was a jubilant team which returned from the match venue on the River Sorria in Portugal with the highest ever placing for an Irish team in this event . |
| 17 | Chris Bonington said ‘ This year we are hoping to attract teams from all over the country to an event that we believe to be a great way of linking people here with the millions still suffering from probably the world 's most disabling disease . ’ |
| 18 | To the nearest fucking gon na get down through there . |
| 19 | Hiding from the rain in a smoky bar we missed the twelve o'clock chiming of the Town Hall clock . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the first side-by-side racing of the year will take place at Glasgow Green on Saturday , when the Glasgow University students put on their annual charities regatta . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , the first side-by-side racing of the year will take place at Glasgow Green on Saturday , when the Glasgow University students put on their annual charities regatta . |
| 22 | If you need to change angle to land on the line , you take two slight passes , the first either stopping with the wood still on the back table , or starting with it already on the front table , depending which way you want to tilt . |
| 23 | During the course of the visit the group had several sessions of talks with seven senior South Koreans including Kang Young Hoon , the South Korean Prime Minister — the first ever meeting between the Prime Ministers of the two states . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister convened the first ever meeting of the UN Security Council at Heads of Government level . |
| 25 | MERSEYSIDERS were gathering in Sydney , Australia , today for the first ever meeting of ‘ Scousers Down Under ’ , organised with the help of the Echo . |
| 26 | Flying from a landing ground at Smoogro he made the first ever landing on the deck of a ship at sea on August 2 , 1917 . |
| 27 | Hardy said afterwards he hopes to have two more fights before the end of the season in June , the first possibly coming at Stockport in four weeks time . |
| 28 | Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th . |
| 29 | They both knew what Benny was going to say : that there was no chance of the wealthy Westwards paying for a university education for Eve . |
| 30 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |