Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMA a magical realist adventure story is set in London , drawing successfully on African traditions . |
| 2 | Anthony 's regular enquiries of his colleagues around Italy had at last borne fruit and Annunziata 's son had been discovered in a Roman hospital recovering slowly from serious wounds to his head and spine . |
| 3 | As he made his way up , feeling like a schoolboy with skimped prep , his eye caught , with a start of surprise , the rotund shape of Mr Kronweiser , eyes darting suspiciously in all directions , working at a desk . |
| 4 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 5 | A Radio Moscow report of Feb. 26 noted that the situation had been aggravated by the absence of any Kazakh officers in a unit consisting mostly of indigenous servicemen . |
| 6 | The slope running down to the quarry-cliff was not steep , but its surface was very treacherous , consisting mostly of loose stones and shale , which were apt to slip under any movement . |
| 7 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 8 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 9 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 10 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 11 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 12 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 13 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 14 | But it 's awful , sir , not eating much for three days . |
| 15 | Where a key is a long number , consisting perhaps of ten digits , but we only have 8000 records and hence need only to allocate 10 000 storage positions , we could use the last four digits of the key as a storage address . |
| 16 | It is very thin and often has deep infoldings and outpouchings so binding together with neighbouring cells . |
| 17 | One of the occupied tables contained a man and woman and child , tucking in to great slabs of meat . |
| 18 | Teeth 42 in number ( 20 upper , 22 lower ) , strong correctly placed , meeting in a scissors bite — lower incisors touching inside of upper incisors . |
| 19 | ‘ Thank you , ’ muttered her host , leafing impatiently through some notes . |
| 20 | During his two years in charge , he was responsible for the replacement as manager of Billy Bingham by Gordon Lee , stepping down for personal reasons after a comparatively short spell . |
| 21 | Pipe Major John K McAllister is stepping down after 45 years service and Pipe Major George McFetridge after 35 years . |
| 22 | That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet . |
| 23 | She says that it 's the bringing together of like minds . |
| 24 | Tactile qualities , colour and personal handling were reintroduced , incorporating collage and the bringing together of disparate materials for emotionally provocative purposes , and encouraging the innovation of individual forms of symbolism . |
| 25 | In a way this was a bringing together of audio-visual aids and library services at the school level corresponding to the coordination of these county services suggested in the fifth objective . |
| 26 | Our natural heritage and a part of God 's creation are symbolically represented here so there is a bringing together of secular conservationists and the church . |
| 27 | Although it is a bringing together of basic techniques , certain movements in the kicks and punches must be altered slightly . |
| 28 | It was coloured in cement and grey , its slate roof dull with moss , great jagged lengths of cornice hanging down like broken fingers from its brow . |
| 29 | He made an immediate advance by growing the mould on a medium consisting only of simple salts and glucose , instead of the broth which Fleming had used . |
| 30 | Among vertebrates , no mammals , and only a few domestic strains of birds , are parthenogenetic , but there are wild ‘ species ’ of lizards consisting only of parthenogenetic females . |