Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 2 | Frege argued that in asserting an existential proposition one is in effect saying something about the relevant concept , namely that certain things fall under it , or , conversely , that nothing falls under it , i.e. that the concept is empty , as the case may be . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that the starkness of early Wesleyan theology made for a rather close match , with local preachers assuming something of the role of conjurer . |
| 4 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 5 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Rather than ‘ structuring tasks for collaboration ’ , it was more a process of ‘ structuring a learning environment for collaboration ’ , with each of the elements contributing something to the whole and therefore needing to be understood in relation to the whole . |
| 7 | And er I never remember er my parents painting anything in the house at all . |
| 8 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 9 | Still , Will had driven from his Stockport home for the twin purposes of getting some exercise and talking about his book , and neither he nor I fancied a day in sad cafe ambience doing nothing but the latter . |
| 10 | ( In this particular area of using dictionaries in catalogue systems , the only precedent of which I am aware is of a university paying something in the region of $40–50,000 . ) |
| 11 | We disturbed a huge sea-eagle eating something on the shore , and it flapped heavily away round the headland . |
| 12 | The plants are also safe , these fish exhibiting none of the JCB habits of our old friends , the cichlids . |
| 13 | He shuddered , for instance , at the prospect of school textbooks containing anything of a ‘ salacious , blasphemous or subliminal political nature ’ . |
| 14 | When news of the event reached the graveyard cottage Willie had overheard Tom muttering something to the effect that it was a wonder the tree did n't have to be taken too . |
| 15 | You should have answers up there and each person has their gro group reading one in the breakfast room |
| 16 | Newman and Copland walked to the edge of the entrance , a grenade silencing one post a mere 25 yards away ; over the water the searchlight of the Mole could be seen beamed on the river . |
| 17 | This planning appeared to have a cyclical character because Beattie 's data showed that for each speaker there were both hesitant and fluent phases following one after the other . |
| 18 | He did not , as he said on 9 December 1958 , when as owner of Be Careful he spoke at the Gimcrack dinner , object to bookmakers paying something towards the racing industry 's expenses . |
| 19 | The Great St George team of the 1950s and 1960s , the team that produced Gasnier and the great lock Johnny Raper ( famous for having once walked through the streets of Ilkley wearing nothing but a bowler hat and a tie ) , was the team that introduced scientific cover defence . |
| 20 | Around half a mile away was the small Hertfordshire town of Tring with shops and bakeries providing everything for a canal side picnic . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , single mothers will sit and watch the TV and watch the advertisements which all show either happy couples or one single person doing something for an unseen other : ironing his shirts , organising their mortgage , driving his Audi to visit her . |
| 22 | She remembered her friend saying something on the phone : ‘ It gets a bit rough ’ … something like that . |
| 23 | If there 's a half team one people , one person counting one on a break and two interviewing . |
| 24 | H. P. I remember a policeman arresting someone under the ‘ being a suspected person/loitering with intent ’ power — who sued him . |
| 25 | His Lordship then suggested that , subject to the test of reasonableness , the court would permit seizure of any other evidence of any crime committed by the suspect or evidence implicating anyone in the crime being investigated . |
| 26 | In any case , I recall things reaching something of a climax one grey and drizzly afternoon when I was in the billiard room attending to Lord Darlington 's sporting trophies . |
| 27 | Th this is a crunchy , sort off pot putting anyone within the employment service can request change to . |
| 28 | ‘ They just stay here twenty-four hours per day talking nothing but the language of their region from the minute they wake up , till the time they go to bed in those tiny cubicles over there . |
| 29 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 30 | There was a shadow on the shower curtain , a human-shape holding something in an upraised arm . |