Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DURING THE UUAC GENERAL STRIKE THESE AIRCRAFT WERE TOUCHING DOWN EVERY FEW MINUTES AT ALDERGROVE AIRPORT IN THE LARGEST AIR AND SEA MOVEMENT OF TROOPS UNDERTAKEN BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SINCE THE SUEZ OPERATION TWENTY-ONE YEARS EARLIER . |
| 2 | Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created using much the same equipment except that a graphics screen will now be essential in order to see the charts and graphs . |
| 3 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 4 | If Unisys Corp 's iAPX-86-with-everything Unix strategy succeeds in building a substantial customer base , particularly among the company 's long-standing mainframe customers , the strategists at AT&T Co , whose NCR Corp is galloping down the same track and has a more extensive Intel Corp-based product line , will have to start weighing up whether a bid for Unisys could be made to make sense : AT&T would likely want a recommended offer , coupled with arrangements for a management buyout of at least one of the conflicting mainframe lines . |
| 5 | In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII the Council , benefiting from the inexperience of the new King , probably gained weight while pursuing much the same business as before . |
| 6 | From a tentative experiment , bringing in a few girl trainees , mostly from charitable institutions , the employment in Edinburgh of women compositors had by Edwardian times become an institution . |
| 7 | Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary . |
| 8 | Bravd , galloping along a few feet away , nodded . |
| 9 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 10 | Jess said , climbing down a few rungs . |
| 11 | Fairfax is driving down the same track in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | ‘ They are in exactly the same place , walking down the same path ’ — he paused , pulling back a cuff to expose his stone , circle-sized Rolex — ‘ some four thousand years ago . |
| 13 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 14 | Nina resumed cracking nuts , adopting exactly the same grip on the hammer her mother had demonstrated , and successfully opened quite a few . |
| 15 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 16 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 17 | applying precisely the same rules to your own contract . |
| 18 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 19 | As the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills so eloquently pointed out , we are seeing exactly the same thing with this tax . |
| 20 | This is shown most dramatically by the results of studies in which , using exactly the same stimulus material , opposite field advantages have been obtained according to the task requirements ( Klatzky , 1972 ; Seamon and Gazzaniga , 1973 ; Robertshaw and Sheldon , 1976 ; Niederbuhl and Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | So the project was expanded to include building an expert system for another , similar circuit board using exactly the same technique . |
| 22 | Using exactly the same technique , I encouraged her to imagine doing just this and to practise for a further fortnight , after which she was in fact able to go to the local park and sit on a bench watching the children at play . |
| 23 | Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth . |
| 24 | Is there anything that 's fundamental changed with I mean we 're using exactly the same formulation . |
| 25 | But , in this case , the printer is using exactly the same font obviously , for s and f . |
| 26 | Hines ( 1972 ) , for example , using exactly the same words as McKeever and Huling ( 1971a ) replicated the latter 's finding of a right field superiority in bilateral recognition when a digit was presented at fixation but obtained a significant left field advantage without the digit . |
| 27 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 28 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 29 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 30 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |