Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Reagan forces claimed that the previous administration , anxious to avoid a tax increase in an election year , had left behind a sizeable budgetary deficit thereby forcing on the new governor the need to introduce legislation substantially raising some forms of taxation . |
| 2 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 3 | Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties . |
| 4 | It was ten minutes before he followed her , finding her in the kitchen apparently listening to a mid-Saturday morning news flash on the radio there with blank-eyed concentration . |
| 5 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
| 6 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 7 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
| 8 | The entrepreneurial characteristics of agency workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encourage agency working as an institution , can be likened to the entrepreneurial characteristics of self-employed , or labour only , subcontracting , building workers , and the regional/occupational labour market conditions which encouraged the growth of labour only subcontracting in the building industry in the late 1950s and early 1960s ( see Phelps Brown , 1968 ) . |
| 9 | She mumbled beneath his mouth when his fingers pressed hard into her firm buttocks , and she felt a hot flame burn where his hand had rested , her mouth , her body , her mind all whirling with the incredible sensation that his unprovoked assault was arousing . |
| 10 | He had come to the village at last light bearing a balaclava helmet , a webbing belt and trousers , and a mess tin all belonging to the Presidential Guard . |
| 11 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 12 | Any loss naturally arising from the breach ; |
| 13 | The future Quaker abolitionist , James Cropper of Liverpool , accepted the necessity ‘ for a humble , dependent state of mind naturally arising from the knowledge of the superior wisdom and goodness of the will and ways of God to our own ’ and found gloom about the future banished . |
| 14 | In all living cells , proteins have to recognize and bind to specific DNA sequences , recognition generally resulting from the interactions of particular amino acid side-chains with the nucleotide bases of specific DNA sequences . |
| 15 | She spun round to face him , her mouth already setting into an angry line . |
| 16 | But today the eyes were vibrant with an anticipatory light and Lady Merchiston sat up against her pillows , her glance alternately flicking to the window and following her companion as she moved about the room , tidying up . |
| 17 | The news has shocked a fashion industry already reeling from the recession . |
| 18 | Dugal Nisbet-Smith , director of the Newspaper Society , an organisation representing mainly English and Welsh provincial titles , has said 17.5 per cent VAT would be a catastrophe for an industry already reeling from the recession . |
| 19 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 20 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 21 | Additional gravity data indicate that the overall excess mass of the Huntly 7 basic intrusion is small , the intrusion possibly extending to a depth of no more than 2 kilometres . |
| 22 | At the foot of the pole the succulent body of the deer lay sprawled , blood still seeping from the severed arteries of its neck . |
| 23 | The day when the search guards were given orders to act roughly , and the little R.A.S.C. captain who came running out of the block with his mouth still bleeding from a blow with a rifle butt . |
| 24 | There is a pointed or heart shaped apical papilla with one pointed oral papilla on each side usually arising on the oral plates . |
| 25 | The success of Never Mind the Bollocks did nothing to heal the rift rapidly developing in the Sex Pistols camp , between McLaren and the group , and among the members of the group themselves . |
| 26 | She was caught without defences , her mind still playing with the idea of being his darling girl . |
| 27 | Her knees seemed to have turned to water , her mind still reeling under the impact of the devastating revelation which had just come to her . |
| 28 | Whitlock smiled politely , his mind still reeling from the way she had dissected his cover story , piece by piece , until there was nothing left for him to hide behind . |
| 29 | The big house ( Brigade H.Q ) was also deserted , the transport and the staff had just left , except the jeep still standing in the driveway . |
| 30 | In the United States in the 1960s the political will to get to the trough of federal aid resulted in the Model Cities programme rapidly expanding from a focus on 66 metropolitan centres to a total of almost 140 cities spread across the nation ( Levine , 1989 ) . |