Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |
| 2 | It remains possible , however , that these abnormalities are simply a consequence of small vessels becoming involved in the chronic inflammatory process . |
| 3 | Not only does this protect them from larger fish , it is easier to ensure they are being fed , since the powder food stays within the confines of the net and I now have 14 miniature mollies swimming free in the tank , all of which seem healthy , feeding on adult food . |
| 4 | A detailed analysis of those authors publishing first in the Scottish Journal of Geology shows the following distribution of universities : |
| 5 | Competition Every competitor within 20 minutes of walking time was visited , and we can report that lunchtime trade was good to excellent , and that those restaurants remaining open in the evening were well patronized . |
| 6 | Their flat little heads swivelled this way and that , their eyes shining blue in the flaring light of the beacon . |
| 7 | Young orangs living free in the forest all day return in the afternoon for their meal of bananas and milk . |
| 8 | This is because , long before white men arrived on the scene , the local Indians living deep in the Amazonian rain forests caught and killed these animals to provide themselves with the poison tips for their arrows . |
| 9 | The hotel has a gorgeous pool , glassed all around so that bathers can watch the peaks turning pink in the evening sun . |
| 10 | As soon as deaf and dumb children were recognised as capable of benefiting from secular and religious teaching , their rescue from degradation and the saving of their souls became objects ranking high in the scale of Victorian values . |
| 11 | There were 11,978 unemployed claimants and 32 jobcentre vacancies remaining unfilled in the Holloway area in December 1991 , on the unadjusted basis . |
| 12 | All of us who teach know well the moments of self-doubt , the anxieties and the hesitations , as work is planned and executed and evaluated , the apparent failures and inadequacies bulking large in the mind 's eye . |
| 13 | A clumsy mural of a Viking adorned one of the windows , the bright colours looking strange in the surrounding drabness . |
| 14 | At the reunion I mete a friend who had spent the past seventeen years teaching Russian in the services . |
| 15 | Premier John Major has , more than once , rejected the idea of British troops getting involved in the conflict . |
| 16 | In fact , take out David Attenborough , still fondly remembered in his early television days standing knee-deep in the bat-droppings of centuries , and a few hundred assorted enthusiasts , and this country , given the chance , would go solidly anti-bat . |
| 17 | This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings . |
| 18 | What with all the forms to fill out and papers to file , it looks like the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition wo n't be formally closed until June , two or three months later than they originally figured : they should have the required stockholders meeting scheduled in the next 30 days . |
| 19 | ‘ You can see things going wrong in the company that you would n't have seen in any other way , ’ says EIS guru Bob Widener . |
| 20 | BANKRUPTCIES have hit a record level with 45,000 firms going bust in the first nine months of this year . |
| 21 | He was not looking at me any more , but was staring out to sea where a small tanker , her navigation lights glowing bright in the falling darkness , nudged gingerly towards the bunkering buoys . |
| 22 | But in chemistry , physics and physiology , the laboratory sciences becoming prominent in the nineteenth century , there was little scope for the amateur . |
| 23 | As fighting intensified , the capital was said to be without water or electricity supplies , with food supplies running short and bodies lying unburied in the streets ; heavy civilian casualties were reported . |
| 24 | His studies inevitably included competition between microbes living free in the soil . |
| 25 | Next , we determined which residues flanking Ser-249 in the Jun-Core protein are required to direct hosphorylation by the DNA-PK . |
| 26 | People say of Monsoon that he has a fortune buried in a burnt-out refrigerator on one of the many little islands standing knee-deep in the sea . |
| 27 | So poor , she said , forgetting the misery of the ghettos in New York ; the poor children going barefoot in the dirt . |
| 28 | According to the agreements , the Central Bank of Algeria would receive credits of US$2,500 million to help restructure debt repayments falling due in the period until January 1993 . |
| 29 | It was a dull , snowy night , with heavy grey clouds hanging low in the sky , the kind of night when hopes are destroyed and love is lost . |
| 30 | The dorsal arm plates are rounded in smaller specimens becoming hexagonal in the larger ones ; they are not contiguous . |