Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 2 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 3 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 4 | There is a case for writing reports but the Profitboss prefers not to make it , preferring to profit from an accurate word of mouth . |
| 5 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 6 | Even the Trade and Industry Select Committee , which produced a lengthy report on the investigation system during 1990 , almost totally ignored the very existence of the s 447 enquiries , preferring to concentrate on the public inspections . |
| 7 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 8 | It 's important to achieve a non-confrontation setting — with refreshments available , seating arranged in a circular pattern so as to avoid grouping staff and governors in a defensive posture behind a line of tables , or even worse , sheltering on the school stage . |
| 9 | While Bayfield said he was disappointed with the results , he was pleased to see the London W company returning to profit after a small loss in the first half . |
| 10 | CUMMINS Engine , the U.S. diesel engine maker with a plant in Darlington , claims it should be returning to profit in the first quarter of this year . |
| 11 | The broad Firth of Clyde runs north from the island , with Goat Fell on the east shore appearing to fall in a sheer drop into the sea , making ideal conditions for commando training . |
| 12 | For example , the recent articles on minor surgery in general practice could be circulated to those on or applying to go on the minor surgery list . |
| 13 | In short , they are seriously at risk of committing further offences and becoming trapped in the revolving door of custody . |
| 14 | They held conservative views , some of them very radical in their implications , but they remained realists endeavouring to work within the existing political system . |
| 15 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 16 | The remainder of the day had passed almost enjoyably , with Jake and Shiona and little Kirsty appearing to behave like a happy little family . |
| 17 | The degree of supercoiling imposed on the viral genome in vivo is not known , but our experiments show that a moderate superhelical density can exert an stabilizing effect on the open complexes formed at the P A2b and P A3 promoters , which should be important in facilitating the transition into elongation complexes . |
| 18 | Its effect may produce dispersal rather than crowding according to the characteristic response repertoire of the species . |
| 19 | , William ( c. 1789–1857 ) , surveyor and civil engineer , was born in Burntisland , Fifeshire , and educated at Burntisland and in Edinburgh before becoming apprenticed to the eminent Scottish land surveyor , John Ainslie [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Soon after starting work on a study of child minding commissioned by the Social Science Research Council ( SSRC ) , Jackson wrote a short but influential article for New Society , part of which is reproduced as reading 2.3 . |
| 21 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |
| 22 | Head twisting to look in the dark glass above the creaking bed . |
| 23 | The inequality of the partners was already becoming attenuated during the early centuries of our era , and there are widespread symptoms to suggest the emergence of a notion of the married couple as a partnership of equals . |
| 24 | Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead . |
| 25 | High latitudes were temperate until cooling began in the mid-to-late Pliocene ; overall cooling from then to the present has been punctuated by spells of warming . |
| 26 | Murtach shot his father a warning glance , but the big man merely shrugged , his deep eyes becoming shrouded by the overhanging brows . |
| 27 | ‘ I will manage , thank you , ’ Theda had told her , her senses by this time becoming dulled to the dreadful impressions that had battered her one after the other in this horrid house . |
| 28 | Article 36 bis spelled out that the basis for a member State of an organisation becoming bound to a third party with respect to a treaty concluded by the organisation was its express agreement . |
| 29 | This alone suggests that there is a serious danger of the European Community becoming based on an absurd paradox : that of internal free trade but external protectionism . |
| 30 | 1983 ) looked at 1255 step-families applying to adopt from the step-family population of 6150 in 1980 , and identified a major problem of variable treatment by courts of step-families seeking adoption . |