Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Midst a lot of no-balls , which helped no end , they picked their way though the furious gunfire , finding the odd boundary , encouraging each other , and finally seeing off the follow-on a ball before tea . |
| 2 | In the sleeper compartment of a train speeding through the night a youth crouches over a naked woman he has drugged with a hypodermic syringe . |
| 3 | This methodological study investigates the relative strengths and weaknesses of panel and cross-sectional approaches to the measurement of attitude data , using as a vehicle the British Social Attitudes Survey . |
| 4 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 5 | Work out how you would do the entry procession using as a guide the accompanying paper . |
| 6 | Indeed , in using as an example the books of Joyce Porter featuring the gross , lazy and self-indulgent Inspector Dover we have already touched on this difficult combination of crime ( which is , after all , a serious matter almost all of the time ) and farce , and these two types of book are , of course , closely linked . |
| 7 | Lavandera illustrates this point , using as an example the tendency for cocoliche speakers to avoid indirect speech , which in certain types of Spanish clause is an obligatory environment for the subjunctive . |
| 8 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 9 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 10 | Adopting as a precedent the order made by this Board in Baksh v. The Queen [ 1958 ] A.C. 167 , 172 , their Lordships consider that this is a case in which the right course is to rely for that purpose on the judicial discretion and experience of the court in Jamaica . |
| 11 | Before applying for the order the LEA would normally have to consult the local authority social services committee . |
| 12 | Walking towards the fire the ghost raised his hand and struck the watchman a smart blow on the body which produced a strange sensation . |
| 13 | The eastern one was only partly examined , revealing towards the rear a series of pits probably dug for gravel , though no buildings were identified . |
| 14 | Obviously when you 're driving along the road the observation y wants to be up the road as far as it possibly can be . |
| 15 | The latter he can do only by depositing with the collector the whole amount of the duty . |
| 16 | The fortnight of concerts , workshops , exhibitions , master-classes , films and lectures spread between several Wirral venues old and new offers one great concession to the Liverpool side of the Mersey , by incorporating into the schedule the legendary Chuck Berry 's appearance at the Empire Theatre on November 16 . |
| 17 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 18 | I almost envy the unemployed when they 're sort of walking along the side the canal and |
| 19 | In particular , it is the producer 's task to have ‘ the ear of the public ’ , thereby representing in the music the feelings and values of ‘ a kind of imaginary democracy ’ ( ibid : 160–1 , 188–92 ) . |
| 20 | The steady increase in lunchtime events offering snacks and other refreshments has resulted in the theatre becoming in every sense a social centre for meeting and encounter throughout the day . |
| 21 | The steady increase in lunchtime events offering snacks and other refreshments has resulted in the theatre becoming in every sense a social centre for meeting and encounter throughout the day . |
| 22 | Unlike his father , he would remain there for the rest of his life , without resentment , becoming in the end a partner in a somewhat unenterprising firm . |
| 23 | Such personalities were seen as objectifying within the personality a particular sort of social and political ideology , which was the product of determinable social processes . |
| 24 | When pressed by the defence on how he could see what was happening in the dark the man replied : ‘ I was reared without lights . |
| 25 | As , like Pontius Pilate , the ancestors gladly wash their hands of the sordid business of administering justice , witchcraft readily steps forward to take the necessary action , acquiring in the process an even more clearly defined moralizing character . |
| 26 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 27 | One big club in the north is known to have offered a player signing from the Continent a loyalty bonus before he had kicked a ball for his new team . |
| 28 | MAKES DRIVING IN THE RAIN A LOT MORE PLEASANT |
| 29 | As earlier articles in Management Today have pointed out ( e.g. Grid on the Grill , September 1970 ) there 's an element of brainwashing in the way the course is structured . |
| 30 | Start banging on the ceiling every time he took out his biro ? |