Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Havis himself did most of the cockpit shots , and these are skilfully intercut into air-to-air shots of Concorde , including a beautiful head-on one ( used several times ) of the Great White Dart skimming the cloud-tops leaving a vortex of white in its high-speed wake . |
| 2 | She paced the room , staring out of the window until the view became too monotonous to continue watching , looking at her watch and at the door , and was about to leave when she heard the porter turning the key in the lock . |
| 3 | He had found the porter visiting the superintendent nurse in her room , a form of social exchange that was strictly forbidden . |
| 4 | The activities accompanying the texts go well beyond checking comprehension . |
| 5 | For example , each activity on a construction programme is priced by estimators and its tinting is reflected in the sequencing of the activities forming the construction bar chart or network . |
| 6 | The report ended with the defence telling the jury it would be very dangerous to record a conviction on the uncorroborated evidence of the girl . |
| 7 | In this case , the question of mens rea was crucial , the defence arguing the relevance of the BBFC 's decision to refuse a national certificate in 1970 so that the film could first be assessed by a representative sample of local licensing authorities who were more closely in touch with community standards . |
| 8 | Then he remembered that the cottage had been sold , the money placed in trust for his father 's mother , the income paying the fees of the nursing home where she sat all day rocking herself in a wheelchair — Alzheimer 's disease . |
| 9 | Consumer Studies brings together the disciplines governing the design , development and management of consumer goods and services ( with particular reference to food , textiles and the home ) and explores the interdisciplinary relationship of these to the needs and responses of consumers . |
| 10 | For instance , dispersal patterns of the continents following the break-up of Pangaea show that the now separate continents have been moving away from Africa , which itself appears to have remained relatively stationary . |
| 11 | There were a lot of policemen in surrounding streets and in the park adjoining the embassy from which the refugees have clambered into the grounds . |
| 12 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 13 | However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point . |
| 14 | Everything appeared in order to the finance company , which accepted the forms believing the trader to be the owner of the van . |
| 15 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 16 | Mr Siaurusevicius said that this might split the Lithuanian Party , with the majority approving the proposal , and a minority remaining members of the All-Union Party . |
| 17 | Over 5,000 students are registered worldwide on the Masters programme , the majority studying the Distance Learning MBA . |
| 18 | An unfortunate ornate gilt altar screen obscures the simplicity of the vertical lines of the great eastern apse , but above is visible the mosaic in the conch depicting the Virgin against a gilt background ; below are saints and apostles . |
| 19 | ‘ I was in the stand munching a hot-dog when the boss called me down , ’ said Hoult . |
| 20 | Arm-in-arm with the day-conductress , she would walk the length of the train , watching the ice being tapped off the water inlets and the track-hoppers getting a warning from the new MCK engine elbowing its way backwards . |
| 21 | The ideology surrounding the constitution was one thing , but , in hard-power terms , the balanced constitution was essentially aristocratic . |
| 22 | A salient aspect of the addressee , her ability to see what the child can see , has been changed by the utterance of b and the acts accompanying the utterance . |
| 23 | The fur lining the cave was a brindled orange ; that of the cat creature too . |
| 24 | A letter can be left with the Will specifying the arrangements for the next of kin to follow . |
| 25 | And braving the elements … the crowds enjoying the Henley Regatta |
| 26 | The Mason waded up and down among the crowds allowing the womenfolk to feel his arm and kiss his dirty hand as though it were a holy relic . |
| 27 | I mixed among the crowds strolling the avenues . |
| 28 | There are hymns ( led by the united choirs of the Anglican and Free Churches in recent years ) and the lesson , address and blessing by the bishop , relayed across the harbour from the east to the crowds lining the quay on the west cliff . |
| 29 | We sit by the edge of the gully facing the altar rock . |
| 30 | She encapsulates the new commonsense : the housewife managing the nation in a way familiar to the ordinary household ( not spending more than it is earning ) and bringing home to her striking trade unionised husband the ‘ harsh realities and consequences of living without a weekly wage ’ . |