Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The odds are that he is no longer alive , but I have a silk thread hanging in there with God that he is still alive . |
| 2 | She turned from her and ran down the stairs and into the yard , there to stand for a moment petrified when she saw the young fellow lying on his side , the blood oozing from somewhere above his ear . |
| 3 | Finally , of course , there was no market research pointing to where in the entire continent would be the most suitable place to start . |
| 4 | With the briefest of intros emanating from somewhere in the swathe of dry ice , The Bunnymen arrived to polite applause and tore into a set devoid of any material dating back to the days of Ian McCulloch . |
| 5 | With growth rates for technical and scientific Unix solutions rising by up to 30% a year , SGI is still able to cock a snoot at the commercial world with impunity for the present : ‘ we want our systems to make money , not count money , ’ says SGI president and chief executive officer , Ed McCracken . |
| 6 | In some cases an experiment in progress was transformed in design and intention by a result coming from elsewhere in the lab . |
| 7 | ‘ Now he 's in a side that is going well , with goals coming from all over the team . |
| 8 | A boy passing by homewards from the pictures heard his cries for help . |
| 9 | He hopes to have up to 600 companies on the books within a year with larger companies looking for up to 100 products each . |
| 10 | Currently , most laser printers set at 300dpi with newer models operating at up to 600dpi . |
| 11 | With consumption growing at only about 1 per cent a year ( the rate of growth of the labour force ) , the system would have become one in which machines were being installed at hectic rates in order to produce other machines . |
| 12 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 13 | The polishing machine consists of a simple rotary polishing lap running at up to 30 rpm , on which is placed a precision lapping chuck ( Fig. 4.7a ) with several slides held by vacuum suction ( Fig. 4.7b ) . |
| 14 | If that sounds too energetic there 's a 2km run starting at 10am on the same day . |
| 15 | Multidimensional spreadsheet modelling with up to 12 categories displayable along rows , columns and pages |
| 16 | Then Frank bursting at once into song , laughing and winking at me . |
| 17 | I 'm up on a stage , with a play going on all round me , but no one 's given me a script and I do n't know what to say or do . |
| 18 | He stood there in the crowded classroom , half listening to Mrs Willmot , and thought of the inexorable process going on all round him — the lives whose courses were being decided at this moment , behind the innocent-seeming chatter , the smiles , the faintly carnival atmosphere of families having a day out . |
| 19 | And get out , he fumed , you 've no business marching in here like this . |
| 20 | It was an interesting if much too long meeting lasting from 2pm to about 6.15pm — but interesting in that , with rather few of us there , it was a chance to range over a whole lot of issues on and off the agenda , and a chance to appreciate the efforts , interests , aspirations and voluntary input of many others — though of course they get support from their activities from their employers . |
| 21 | With boards travelling at up to 25 knots , the emphasis is on not falling since in a few seconds the fleet will have zoomed past and gained a huge advantage . |
| 22 | I was strolling through the local city centre , when I heard a thumping bass sound coming from just around the corner . |
| 23 | And it 's , burgundy with cream spots button down front and then , sort of pleat starting from just below the waist . |
| 24 | ‘ With the nesting period stretching for up to 10 weeks , the bill for this kind of activity in Orkney alone can quickly reach £20,000 . |
| 25 | The company says it supports 16 serial ports operating at up to 115.2Kbps . |
| 26 | Exit : Keep left-turn indicator going until just after leaving the roundabout |
| 27 | Excuse my ignorance , but living in the ‘ plains ’ of the US makes it very hard to keep up with English soccer ( er , football ! ) especially Leeds a team that I 've benn supporting for close to 20 years now . |
| 28 | It would not be at all difficult to imagine this person running from here to the farm and back again without pause for breath . |
| 29 | And er you would have maybe a hundred and twenty delegates attending from all over Scotland . |
| 30 | All Wednesday evening and into the night , companies trickled in with announcements that their kit was being used as part of Nynex Corp 's new Nynex Enterprise Services high capacity digital private line service ( CI No 2,148 ) : the system will use more than 100 Sparcserver systems from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp to provide the services , and they will use Tivoli Systems Inc 's software to manage the services ; Dynatech Corp 's Parallax Graphics unit supplied its XVideo system to display digital video coming from up to two channels of live video display and one-channel video output , and Synernetics Inc , based in North Billerica , Massachusetts says it will supply a switching hub for the Enterprise Fibre Distributed Data Interface part of the system . |