Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dynasty , a giant Canadian Hereford weighing over a ton was imported to sire larger bulls to compete with the heavier continental breeds . |
| 2 | Inverdarroch : His typewriter , her knittin' machine , Laura Ashley patchwork kit cushion covers , jugs o' weeds on the mantelpiece and the collected works of Lillian Beckwith takin' up a hail shelf of the stripped pine kitchen dresser ! |
| 3 | Nine CIS member states ( all except Armenia and Ukraine ) had also signed an agreement at the Alma Ata meeting setting up a council to co-ordinate the work of their intelligence services . |
| 4 | There was a gas boiler , comparatively modern , mounted above a deep square porcelain sink much stained and with a clean but crumpled tea towel hanging on a hook beside it . |
| 5 | EVER since I saw David Bellamy disappearing down a crack in a garden path to demonstrate that we all had our own ‘ personal schooool of evolution ’ close at hand , I have been prepared to concede him an eternal place among the inexorably tenacious . |
| 6 | Even the Bee Gees ' ‘ Jive Talking ’ was inspired by car wheels bumping over a railway track . |
| 7 | The Doctor immediately threw his weight into the steering wheel and floored the accelerator , sending the battered car down the street at a lopsided angle , the exposed wheel hub throwing up a constant stream of sparks . |
| 8 | A young research social scientist could well go into a factory and tell the people she worked with that she was a student on a placement for , say , three months , learning about the realities of factory work , when in fact she was a graduate research worker carrying out a carefully planned study of labour-management relationships . |
| 9 | Little more than a rhythm section revolving around a Lynn Drum , they were Factory 's fairly successful attempt at New York chicness , and Factory desperately wanted to become an international concern . |
| 10 | It 's like Belinda Carlisle fronting Mudhoney , or Clare Grogan grooving with Therapy ? , or Gary Lineker leading out a Japanese league team . |
| 11 | Neither keeper was seriously tested , but McMinn proved dangerous at times for the Swifts with the home defence warding off a couple of good chances by the visitors . |
| 12 | The first area is cost behaviour analysis : assumptions with respect to how costs vary with , for example , volume of activity , provide the basis for management decision making over a whole range of issues . |
| 13 | The moribund mainframe market is about to wake up to a flurry of developments in the storage area , with Hitachi Data Systems Inc preparing to announce a Symmetrix-type disk array for mainframes on May 25 , and IBM Corp following up a week later with launch of the 3390-9 disk drive , which is now expected to be accompanied by a new 3990-4 controller . |
| 14 | AFTER the opening shot of a cartoon rainbow descending over a stately home , the camera panned in on a well-groomed man with a moustache . |
| 15 | But in time term " , these limestones are very much of the same age as those in Europe and , as I have said elsewhere , " the Niagara Falls are nothing more than the Niagara River falling over an escarpment of Wenlock Limestone " . |
| 16 | Another squally young French counter-tenor , Gérard Lesne , often appears in works by Purcell and Handel but with unfortunate overtones of Ethel Merman belting out a razzmatazz show tune . |
| 17 | The sluice gates holding back a bottomless reservoir of blood are creaking open , spattering the country with thick , viscous dollops . |
| 18 | The Poles were building beautifully at times , and one example engineered by Japek Ziober and Janusz Nawrocki ended with Robert Warzycha curling over a perfect cross from Dziekanowski . |
| 19 | There is talk , too , of Kenny McKinstry putting in an appearance to give his Subaru a pre-Donegal work-out following its trip to Barbados . |
| 20 | If there is a life hereafter , then surely we will find Fred Daly strolling down an Elysian Fairway , whistling in his own inimitable style , his gallery enthralled by the perceptible body sway on the backswing before launching a colossal drive from the tee , enchanted by the purity of his iron play and driven to distraction by precisely 32 lifts of the putter blade from the back to the top of the ball before he sends it with authority into the cup . |
| 21 | The construction of the defences and the creation of an intervallum road connecting up an extended street layout . |
| 22 | The situation has greatly improved from 1989 when affordability in the province was at its worst , with mortgage repayments eating up an average of 14.3pc of income . |
| 23 | Anyway within about half an hour he came on and umm , been on to the record company sorting out a couple of records that we hope are the things you like , plus they were going to sort you out some tickets were n't they ? |
| 24 | He laid everything on it and stood back to look , like someone in an art gallery sizing up a surrealist exhibit . |
| 25 | As a final safeguard on their position , Chemco insisted on Virgin Atlantic taking out a forward-currency contract to protect the buy-back agreement against fluctuations in the pound against the dollar and to protect themselves if Virgin defaulted or went bust . |
| 26 | Close to the sea Breiđ3amerkurjökull , a broad flat snout of Vatnajökull , dies into this lake , the melt water exiting along a wide , fast channel into the sea . |
| 27 | Apart from the delight of seeing Anita Lonsborough carrying off a gold in the individual medley , he was also honoured by being chosen to manage the combined European team in the festival that followed the Games . |
| 28 | More than one correspondent filed a story describing the spectacle of a Cruise missile travelling up a Baghdad street at hotel window level . |
| 29 | That 's why I stuck all the posters here think the back issues loosening up a bit it was getting pretty tight . |
| 30 | Then , a lean index finger hovering over a bell-push , he asked , ‘ Would you like coffee , or lemon tea perhaps ? ’ |