Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the defence ensuring a frustrating afternoon for the league 's leading scorer , Michelle Clark , the rest of the team were able to set up camp in the Wimbledon half . |
| 2 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 3 | Also , do n't forget that DOL is potentially a good managerial prospect … maybe a Strach-DOL partnership … that 'll be interesting … ‘ heard the one about the Irishman & the Scotsman managing a footbal team … ’ : - ) |
| 4 | All these Swiss cheeses are made in wheels , the retailer buying a wedge-shaped cut of the required size . |
| 5 | What is termed the crossed interpretation , with each part of the sentence manifesting a different sense , is prohibited . |
| 6 | In Rome , an advert for a laundry reads : ‘ Ladies , leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time . ’ |
| 7 | That was the day in October 1957 that Ken spent the afternoon rehearsing a new routine . |
| 8 | Opening the case containing a new guitar from Patrick Eggle is , for me , a trying experience . |
| 9 | FOUR men , two from Belfast , accused of conspiracy to murder a drug-dealer and a police informant were cleared at the Old Bailey after the prosecution dropped the case following a six-week trial costing nearly £1m . |
| 10 | For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled . |
| 11 | This in many ways resembles the minister-civil service relationship ( see Chapter 5 ) with the chairman performing a quasi-ministerial role . |
| 12 | The Law Commission in their Report No 160 on Sale and Supply of Goods ( 1987 ) , recommended that s15(2) ( b ) should be deleted and instead a reference to the buyer having a reasonable opportunity to compare the bulk with the sample should be inserted into s34 . |
| 13 | That time my father was on the deck giving a dramatic blow by blow account of Dunkirk , which was overheard by a family from Stoke-on-Trent who promptly dived for their life jackets . |
| 14 | Each check is mounted on the rail using a short length of brass wire . |
| 15 | A gold ring from the port of Mochlos shows a goddess sailing on a boat with a shrine apparently built on to the afterdeck conveying a portable shrine from one coastal site to another . |
| 16 | Dinting Vale from an old postcard sent in May 1934 as a Robinson 2–8–0 crosses the viaduct heading a down freight . |
| 17 | Erm did you work in the kitchen doing a different job than you were doing ? |
| 18 | The man burst into the kitchen carrying a great mound of kindling which he dumped in a pile by the door . |
| 19 | The father was just moving round to sit at the head of the table when the mother came sweeping out of the kitchen carrying a huge plate piled high with eggs and sausages and bacon and tomatoes . |
| 20 | Freddy came out from the kitchen carrying a big bowl of pasta , |
| 21 | Helen was in the kitchen preparing a sweet savour as an offering to her lord . |
| 22 | There are two distal oral papillae on each side of the jaw forming a continuous series with the infradental papillae . |
| 23 | ‘ Is n't it true that during the Moro affair you were transferred from the active list of the Rome Questura to a desk job in the Ministry following a disciplinary inquiry ? |
| 24 | When the yarns are different colours , or different textures , this can lead to the knitting having a streaky appearance . |
| 25 | Bottom turns and cut-backs are performed along the wave leaving a wiggly wake . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ It 's frightening to see the eye of the storm taking a direct aim at you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ My job is to effect the disentanglement , with the University having a clear view of how successful the press is , and the extent to which it is calling on or contributing to University funds , ’ says David Martin . |
| 28 | For example , choices may be driven by a search strategy with the user seeking a particular item of information or instead may be an unstructured , browsing investigation , as much a reflection of the user 's curiosity as a desire to locate anything particular . |
| 29 | Unlike products and clients , an issue is created by the user supplying a unique identifier for it ; this acts as a further reference to the product . |
| 30 | The significance of the user applying a similar strategy to library catalogues has not been realized . |