Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to this time , the early seventies , there was no real precedent for autonomous women 's groups organizing around a woman-only issue . |
| 2 | This exclusion is designed to focus the Merger Regulation on operations bringing about a lasting change in the structure of the undertakings concerned . |
| 3 | Branson and McLaren stood side by side on the upper deck , incongruous partners in crime , the contrast almost comical — McLaren in drainpipes , Branson with shoulder-length hair tumbling over a multi-coloured sweater of Hobbit-like cosiness . |
| 4 | While soccer 's purists quake at the thought of Graham Taylor bringing in the long-ball game , Ferguson insists Dublin 's arrival will not mean a switch to Route One football at Old Trafford . |
| 5 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 6 | On to the main road , which runs through the island and , apart from the sheep eking out a sparse living on the dead heather , there is little moving until I come to the head of Whalfirth , a long arm of the sea which pushes in from the west until it nearly cuts the island in half . |
| 7 | The Keynesian then considers the implications in terms of the income — expenditure model of Chapter 10 , with any increase in investment bringing about a magnified increase in national income through the workings of the multiplier . |
| 8 | The two pictures hanging on the wooden beam in the left of the photograph perhaps show a more popular way of displaying miniatures , which is nonetheless very attractive . |
| 9 | Through the side window he could see his grey garments and underwear hanging on a small washing line outside . |
| 10 | The oddly named My Father 's Vertigo , a near narrative piece bringing out the best in LCDT , set the programme on its right tracks and proved that dance can contain wit . |
| 11 | Well , the most serious one , I suppose , is that there were some people in a car driving down the bottom end of Commerical Street and they had their windows broken by stones thrown by Hereford lads . |
| 12 | A room vine climbing up the old chimney-breast … |
| 13 | It is a daunting sight : a seventeen-foot drop through a complex arrangement of boulders , holes , standing waves , scissor waves , and lateral waves rebounding off a sheer wall on the right . |
| 14 | Management suffered the brunt of the reorganisation , with ZDS stripping out a whole department of sales managers . |
| 15 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 16 | … with a practised rippling smoothness like a boat gliding over a quiet dark river . |
| 17 | We hastily put to sea in deteriorating weather conditions , the freshening easterly wind pushing up a lumpy swell for which this area is notorious . |
| 18 | He drew her against him , his lips seeking out the smooth plane of her cheek , the full , ripe curve of her mouth . |
| 19 | Projections suggest that FUNCINPEC will have 57 seats in Cambodia 's constituent assembly , against the CPP 's 52 , with minor parties picking up the remaining 11 seats . |
| 20 | Sometimes in the evenings I would hear myself laughing , and the sound was like wind passing over an empty vessel . |
| 21 | He was trembling now , his back still against the door , his eyes searching out the ill-formed contours within the room . |
| 22 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 23 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 24 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 25 | The evidence from the Leicestershire textile village of Shepshed , as he puts it , ‘ supports the argument that the acceleration of economic activity after 1750 was the prime agent breaking down the traditional social controls that previously maintained a demographic equilibrium in which population size was kept in line with resources . ’ |
| 26 | They travel to Nottingham Forest tomorrow for a game with a real edge to it , with Brian Clough 's side propping up the Premier League . |
| 27 | The lady with the upright hair who Gloria said had a screw loose , clattered into the bedroom holding out a steaming jug on a tray . |
| 28 | You could already see those vipers sorting out the Ambre Solaire . |
| 29 | He could see slanting light pointing up the brave thrust of her breasts , emphasising the marvellous trough of her waist above the firm swell of her nates . |
| 30 | It was as if they were in an aircraft flying over a modern city . |