Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a proportion of the land , usually near the villages and suitable for agriculture , is retained providing , with proper management , it can go on producing crops at a reasonable level . |
| 2 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 3 | Equally , there are dangers in suggesting that all Western economic ills are explained by militant labour or autocratic managers , thereby downplaying differences in the quality and quantity of capital equipment used . |
| 4 | Burbling innocuously around the moorings , buoys , isolated pilings and crazily speeding windsurfers with the occasional whiff of avgas mixed with salt spray and hot oil , we towered over all the other waterway users — except the super-tankers bound for foul Fawley . |
| 5 | It 's still a superb test of skill and character , combining a clutch of relentlessly demanding holes with a scenic splendour that rivals all but a few . |
| 6 | What Havel wittily shows is the kind of Catch-22 situation faced by a dissident in a despotism : whether to cling fiercely to your own moral integrity ( thereby landing others in the shit ) or whether to conform and perpetuate a corrupt system . |
| 7 | Sometimes they had driven north and gone on walking tours in the Lake District or the Scottish Highlands . |
| 8 | The basic principle of these vast Swedish furnishing stores is to provide self-assembly furniture in self-service flat packs , thereby keeping prices to the absolute minimum . |
| 9 | ‘ Tem bastards go on queerbashin' tirades at every opportunity . |
| 10 | But , though statistics are objective icons for the disinterested observer — or powerfully distorting tools for the polemicist — once in a while a particular set of figures will leap from the page of some dust-dry tome to offer up an image more illuminating than all of a dozen reports like those in the bibliography relating to this chapter . |
| 11 | The Royal visit to Edinburgh in 1953 was conducted almost entirely using carriages from the collection . |
| 12 | At any rate , Bloch 's work is exciting , with long singing lines for the solo instrument over a rich orchestral texture , well coloured by brass and percussive timpani . |
| 13 | Oh ye were there obviously cooking facilities on the boat were there ? |
| 14 | His district stuck to the tradition of only accepting chaplains from the three main Protestant churches . |
| 15 | However this by definition means only accepting candidates exactly the same length , which we have already established is most likely not going to be possible , so allowing candidates with the same reduced zonal coding is more realistic ( eg. for code ‘ muuu ’ all candidates will , rill , roll , wool , awl , oval and oral would be kept ) . |
| 16 | The American boy , he saw , was puffing out his cheeks and making loud trumpeting noises in an attempt to emulate these feats , and it was this comic performance that was causing the Annamese boys to shake with laughter . |
| 17 | UEFA 's appeals committee have a reputation for not only upholding decisions of the disciplinary committee , but in some cases increasing the punishment . |
| 18 | Whatever the rhetoric behind these sentiments , they reflected precepts of duty and service , and were antipathetic to notions of merely keeping boys off the streets . |
| 19 | Apparently there have been at least internal discussions of someday perhaps blending parts of the opposing OSF-USL technologies but it is currently ‘ not part of any strategy on paper or on any timeline . ’ |
| 20 | For a long time they had led a life of measured grace ; regular sedate walks with their mistress , superb food in ample quantities and long snoring sessions on the rugs and armchairs . |
| 21 | ICL is only announcing shipments of the 60MHz processor to start with — a pragmatic response to the shortage of the high speed parts . |
| 22 | ICL is only announcing shipments of the 60MHz processor to start with — a pragmatic response to the shortage of the high speed parts . |
| 23 | Early studies of the contemporary romance form tended to offer somewhat disbelieving accounts of the readership figures for a fiction in which marriage was invariably offered as the solution for female anxiety ; as in David Margolies ' attempts to do this in his application of the tools of literary criticism to the most consistently successful publishing concern in the world . |
| 24 | The skirt was lovely , there was no doubt of that , swishing down rustling folds to the deep ruffle at the hem , but she was doubtful about managing the small train , even after an hour of practice in front of Aunt Emily . |
| 25 | Twenty people have died on the treacherous glacier which we have to scramble up and down transporting supplies from the base camp to higher camps on the path to the summit . |
| 26 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 27 | Furthermore publishing details of the Committees would be both misleading and counter-productive . |
| 28 | Of course , the effect produced by unbroken lines of gentlemen in evening suits , so outnumbering representatives of the fairer sex , was a rather severe one ; but then again , in those days , the two large chandeliers that hang over the table still ran on gas — resulting in a subtle , quite soft light pervading the room — and did not produce the dazzling brightness they have done ever since their electrification . |
| 29 | Thus the signalman was prevented from inadvertently releasing signals for a second train to enter before the first was clear . |
| 30 | here they do n't seem to keep horses/mules/donkeys , but one sees water-buffalo ponderously and patiently pulling ploughs through the ooze of the paddy-fields . |