Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passengers were still climbing off while the second load of passengers were scrambling on . |
| 2 | In earlier times the former had been underachieving educationally whereas the latter are now near the peak of their attainment level . |
| 3 | A rod that is propped at 45° to the water , quivering slightly as the current pushes against the line , will suddenly slam over as though it has been struck with a sandbag . |
| 4 | Walking out after the first act was becoming an addiction . |
| 5 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 6 | Before the trade took off I bought a small font ( of the splashing rather than the total immersion variety ) for 20 crisp oncers ; now you 'd need to check your savings before indulging in a piece of granite . |
| 7 | The knife flashed in the spotlight , glinting viciously before the razor-sharp blade was drawn across his throat . |
| 8 | Sadly , because the people who run soccer are incapable of seeing further than the next television contract , the real purpose of the Taylor Report is reduced to an argument about whether or not spectators should stand or be seated . |
| 9 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 10 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 11 | This will be a price worth paying only if the vital expressive quality of the work is sustained and enhanced ; that is to say , whether the carer be man or woman , the tasks to be performed involve a relationship with the old person and one in which the essential core of the response should be benign and experienced by the old person as loving . |
| 12 | His cheek was close to her mouth and impulsively she kissed it , pulling away before the fierce hunger for affection should overwhelm her altogether . |
| 13 | John O'Connor has described how , following up what was a Zanuck initiative , a Warner Bros team had eventually produced I am a Fugitive , a film that outspokenly denounced the Southern chain-gang system by using a true story that had received a great deal of publicity , the studio 's gamble on topicality really paying off when the real-life subject of the story was actually rearrested just a few months after the film 's release . |
| 14 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 15 | But now was the wrong moment and he found himself wondering wryly when the right moment might be . |
| 16 | Bill Copland ordered action stations at midnight , when the German searchlights were going out as the anti-aircraft defences stood down . |
| 17 | The governor 's key role in the " redistricting " process — deciding precisely where the new electoral boundaries were to be drawn — offered the possibility of considerable political reward for the party which controlled the office . |
| 18 | For instance , horses in a field on the side of a road will totally ignore traffic rushing by because the older horses show no fear and just continue grazing . |
| 19 | Some stretches of the river seemed to be racing downstream while the adjoining stretch , maybe fifty yard wide , raced in the opposite direction causing silent eddies and whirlpools . |
| 20 | Least noticeably but perhaps most dangerously , the Palestinians living inside the 1949 Armistice Line , barely 11 per cent of the Israeli population at the time , were nevertheless growing faster than the Jewish community and were expected to exceed 20 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 21 | ‘ The front one was going faster than the back one . |
| 22 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 23 | In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent . |
| 24 | Winners Many cashed in on their success by exiting just before the current recession began |
| 25 | The men began moving restlessly when the young gunman raised his hand . |
| 26 | We have been expanding continuously since the mid-80s and we now have to look at what we can afford , ’ he went on . |
| 27 | Nyhavn , full of character and teeming with life , was just the sort of place that Suzie would love : two rows of picturesque houses flanking either side of a canal which was lined with old fishing boats , their tall masts and graceful rigging moving lazily as the light wind ruffled the water . |
| 28 | The same madness is spreading everywhere as the small business crisis deepens . |
| 29 | ‘ The moment those lights go out , ’ said Birkett , ‘ I 'm getting behind that stove and I 'm staying there until the whole shooting match is over ’ |
| 30 | Roosevelt was aware of the dangers of the United States and the Soviet Union drifting apart once the common cement of the war against Germany was removed . |