Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 and my Lord er in relation to this judgment er you 've got the courts setting out the principal at page er one stroke five , forty , paragraph fourteen of the judgment that 's the principal of suspension and it 's then got it 's conditions for suspension on the next page , paragraph twenty two
2 It was all too much , waiting for that upstart Hitler to make up his mind ; to envisage the Germans strutting down the Mall as they 'd strutted down the Champs Élysées .
3 His horse , a black stallion of large breadth , reared and stamped , the hooves striking down the gate .
4 The syllables making up an instruction are placed immediately after the syllables of the previous instruction , without regard for the boundaries between words .
5 Well it 's just the thing to keep the operators going on the night shift .
6 The company that sent in the bailiffs , Bristow and Sutor , say they 're conducting an enquiry ; Mr Hoad 's arm was broken when he tried to prevent the bailiffs taking away a car .
7 IF EVER any miserable bastards were looking for evidence in the tedious ‘ American Bands Are Better Than Their Limp Bit Counterparts ’ argument , then the imbalance between Yanks Velvet and Glaswegian wranglers Perspex would ( unfortunately ) send the US-ophiles sprinting around a victory lap at Wem-ber-lee Stadium .
8 A public discussion was held between the groups , the designers explaining how the machines would work .
9 6.7 The thing which all the adjectives of the sort found in ( 33 ) have in common is that on the intensional level they qualify the relation between the entity identified by the noun phrase in which they appear and the description supported by the words making up the remainder of that phrase .
10 her compositions are spun from the rhythmical flowing brushwork : this can occasionally veer towards the mannered or illustrational , such as the lines weaving around a central bulbous form in ‘ Conch ’ .
11 These include the spatial or temporal intervals between the elements making up a display ( Kimura , 1969 ; Hines and Satz , 1971 ) , the distance of stimuli from fixation ( Bryden , 1966 ; McKeever and Gill 1972c ; Carmon and Nachson , 1973 ; Curcio , MacKavey and Rosen , 1974 ) , the spatial frequency of the stimulus ( Rao , Rourke and Whitman , 1981 ) , the directional characteristics of words and letters ( Harcum and Filion , 1963 ; Bryden , 1966 ; 1968 ; White , 1969b ) , the number of times a stimulus is presented ( Hardyck , Tzeng and Wang , 1977 ; 1978 ; Schmuller , 1980 ) , exposure duration ( Bryden , 1965 ; Gill and McKeever , 1974 ; Beaumont and Dimond , 1975 ) , stimulus size ( Pring , 1981 ; Pitblado , 1979b ) , typeface ( Bryden and Allard , 1976 ) , complexity ( Fontenot , 1973 ) and discriminability ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ) .
12 O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface .
13 The failure of ecological aspects of small mammal faunas to predict predator species leads to the consideration of modifications to the bones making up the faunal assemblage .
14 They are identical in the same way that the articles coming off a well-engineered assembly line are identical .
15 They rounded yet another bend , the headlights sweeping over a bald expanse of stricken scanty grass .
16 In addition , the stewards handing out the hymn books require alerting and training in their responsibility in making the visitor welcome .
17 They eat a tremendous amount in the weeks running up the race and she cooks everything fresh .
18 You may not need as much as that , but erm Bacteria , nitrates in the soil and the plants taking up the nitrates some of the plants .
19 Whatever happened to all the heroes calling all the heroes shooting up the town boys
20 Calling all the heroes shooting up the town boys .
21 It certainly rained a great deal in Nuku'alofa , the gales whipping up the surf into clouds of spume and sending broken branches spinning through the air .
22 Thus intravalence excitation and valence-electron ionization transitions contain information characteristic of molecules , whereas core-electron ionizations relate to the atoms making up the molecules .
23 They saw the camp-fires lighting up the winter dusk well before they reached the Hoddom area , near where the Water of Milk joined Annan , which meant , of course , that the enemy ahead presumably would be apt to see them also ; but it was practically impossible to hide the presence of a major army anyway .
24 Its history was revealed in the sections cut by the machines hacking out the sphagnum peat to be packed in bags and sold because people are conditioned to prefer heathers in gardens to those in their natural habitat .
25 At least the rain keeps the mosquitoes away , and the flashes from the guns lighting up the sky appear somewhat comforting as I doze off , conscious of the rain dripping on to my boots .
26 With luck I may be able to sleep tonight , without dreaming , without lying awake in sweating fear , listening to the sounds creeping up the house .
27 ‘ The position was ’ , he observes , ‘ thus reversed , the investors taking both a prior claim and a higher rate in the pound than was allowed the workers . ’
28 The regulations setting out the procedure whereby a soldier in the British Army can apply for conscientious objector status are classified as a ‘ restricted ’ document — to which only army officers have access .
29 Two men stumbled along ahead of the wheels treading out a safe path across the seething grass .
30 In the following sections the components , structure , and tendencies involved with the firms making up the holiday industry are analysed ; and recent competitive battles are reviewed .
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