Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated the kitchen and the elegantly curving staircase and the Egyptian rugs on the stone floor of the hall . |
| 2 | The main maser features may have originated from the slowly rotating disk or from the outflow gas near the galactic nucleus . |
| 3 | Choose the best linking word and complete these sentences with information from the story . |
| 4 | 1 Choose the best linking word and complete these sentences with information from chapters 1–7 . |
| 5 | After which , I decided to get into the leather producing industry rather than the purely merchanting business and I joined as a director of the main board . |
| 6 | I spun into the spotlight with arms raised , smile flashing , galloped down the stairs , trying not to look down , across the stage , bowing like a courting duck to the boxed panel en route , along the promontory jutting out into the midst of the wildly cheering audience and , as the extravagant applause began at last to subside , heard myself say : |
| 7 | It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore-Tex bivvy-bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear . |
| 8 | Thus , for example , inclusion of the frequently occurring item and , which shows high frequency deletion , skews the data considerably ; for this reason , Labov excluded and from his original study of final stop deletion ( Labov 1980 : xvi ) . |
| 9 | The continuously falling price and increasing power of desk-top computers has led to their widespread availability and use . |
| 10 | They were alone with the silently hurtling river and the great , gross wound it had made in this bank , curls of dark-red soil peeled back and rolling downhill , and a tangle of uprooted broom bushes . |
| 11 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 12 | The actively hunting wolf and jumping spiders show little dimorphism and similar adult life styles , whereas the sedentary orb web-building spiders and the similarly sessile ( yet webless ) crab spiders have males that are much smaller and much more mobile than their respective females . |
| 13 | Galileo took the argument further and claimed that the correctness of his law of inertia could be demonstrated by dropping a stone from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship and noting that it strikes the deck at the foot of the mast , although Galileo did not claim to have performed the experiment . |
| 14 | At 3500 miles into the Metro 's life , the Rover dealer had to sort out a badly slipping clutch and , a few miles later , replace the brake pads in a effort to cure the soggy feel of the originals . |
| 15 | It is set in the Whitebrook Valley , just a mile from the Tintern Forest where the peace and quiet is disturbed only by a gently babbling brook and birdsong . |
| 16 | Here is what she typed on the computer : UMMK JK CDZZ F ZD DSDSKSM S SS FMCV PU I DDRGLKDXRRDO RDTE QDWFDVIOY UDSKZWDCCVYT H CHVY NMGNBAYTDFCCVD D RCDFYYYRM N DFSKD LD K WDWK JJKAUIZMZI UXKIDISFUMDKUDXI She has other important calls on her time , so I was obliged to program the computer to simulate a randomly typing baby or monkey : WDLDMNLT DTJBKWIRZREZLMQCO P Y YVMQKZPGJXWVHGLAWFVCHQYOPY MWR SWTNUXMLCDLEUBXTQHNZVJQF FU OVAODVYKDGXDEKRVMOGGS VT HZQZDSFZIHIVPHZPETPWVOVPMZGF GEWRGZRPBCTPGQMCKHFDBGW ZCCF And so on and on . |
| 17 | First by learning about the nature of addictive disease as a naturally relapsing condition and therefore being aware of the need for continual monitoring . |
| 18 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 19 | Marjorie Boulton wrote : ‘ The whole Somerville experience was a revelation to someone who had previously had a largely stultifying education and a narrow background ’ ; it gave ‘ freedom of discussion , dignity of life , stress on truth in scholarship , study in depth , no fear of victimisation , undenominational chapel , fine library , interesting friends … and Joshua , the Principal 's tabby cat . |
| 20 | For example , the system may use a rapidly diffusing inhibitor and a slowly diffusing activator ; the inhibitor inhibits activator production but its own production is dependent on the activator itself ; and the activator stimulates its own synthesis . |
| 21 | because it is immoral in a secular way , perhaps as a socially destabilising activity or a crude self-surrender to animal lust ? , |
| 22 | After getting back into the accurate turn as before , apply a very small amount of opposite rudder to create a slightly slipping turn and try the stall again . |
| 23 | Master Macaulay it was who took up the baton , adopting a convincingly highfalutin' tone and laying into several powerful members of the journalistic and cultural establishments , secure in the knowledge that their rage would be turned upon yours truly , rather than the actual perpetrator . |
| 24 | ‘ We have to adopt a really attacking policy and give it our best shot , ’ declared Roxburgh , who has recalled creative players in Celtic 's Paul McStay and John Collins along with Rangers skipper Richard Gough . |
| 25 | Less than one in five people experiencing a severely threatening event or long-term difficulties will develop depression ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) , but from a review of ten community surveys of depression using the same Life Event and Difficulty Schedule , Brown et al. |
| 26 | They make adequate monitoring of children 's learning a particularly demanding task and children themselves may find that such arrangements reduce their opportunities for the quiet , concentrated study required by the reading and writing activities which dominate their curriculum . |
| 27 | They 'd had a skinful so were n't in a particularly noticing mood but they saw and heard nothing , nothing except what they described as a kind of mournful whistling coming from deep in the wood . ’ |
| 28 | Or you hit on what seems a marvellously telling simile and can not bear to omit it . |
| 29 | He said that Riddle 's business was a sound concern with a steadily rising turnover and increasing profitability . |
| 30 | Finn stubbed out a cigarette in an already overflowing ash-tray and immediately lit another . |