Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would be great , particularly as Milan is bidding to hold the next Olympic Games after Atlanta , ’ he suggests . |
| 2 | Ruth drank thirstily because it was her first priority and because she was going to enjoy the next delicious moment and wanted to savour the expectancy of it . |
| 3 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 4 | She had far more important things to think about , like how she was going to survive the next four weeks alone with a man whose quiet voice and manner hid a ruthlessness and determination that made steel look limp by comparison . |
| 5 | THIS IS the day for signing in and checking out fellow schmoozers ; for ploughing through the completely bewildering gig schedule , and trying to work out just how we 're going to survive the next 100 hours without losing any important internal organs . |
| 6 | I 'm going to clear my mother 's name , and the great M'sieur Rohan — ’ she almost spat the name ‘ — is going to eat every last insulting word . ’ |
| 7 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 8 | She was damned if she was going to make the first conciliatory move ; it would blunt the point of all she had done in Waterford . |
| 9 | Longman the least seasonally biased of the three struggled to break even in the first half and this removed the normal pattern of Longman 's half-year profits helping to offset the first half losses of the other two businesses but before we get too depressed er I point out that Addison Wesley s sales were up by eleven percent and the size of the first half loss reflects the company 's decision to gear up in advance er , for what we w believe will be a very strong er , second er , half performance . |
| 10 | By contrast , anyone looking at the record of a computer attack would think it had been managed by a sadist wishing to extract the last possible drop of pain our of the victory . |
| 11 | In October 1990 a network of Baptist Church planters was officially formed gathering around a hundred ministers and aiming to hold a first residential conference in 1991 . |
| 12 | ‘ Rescuers are having to walk the last two or three miles carrying all their equipment . ’ |
| 13 | You will already be feeling fitter , healthier , and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight . |
| 14 | Again the try came from a concerted attack involving forwards and backs , Guscott and Brendan Mullin barely managing to squeeze the last two passes away . |
| 15 | The bank is planning a European and American roadshow on April 28 and is negotiating to become the first Portuguese company with a full overseas listing on one of the American stock exchanges . |
| 16 | The defeat has deepened the Quakers ' relegation worries and the visit of promotion hopefuls Huddersfield on Saturday when Darlington will be trying to avoid a third successive reversal promises to provide a searching test . |
| 17 | The third victim , Brian Frizzell ( 29 ) , was shot dead after trying to help a third young girl , who was being dragged along the pavement by her hair by a gunman . |
| 18 | Beyond those possible tasks lies a heavy load of work for the UN in what several Security Council resolutions call ‘ restoring peace and stability to the area ’ — that is , trying to prevent the next Middle East war . |
| 19 | Monaco also have six players within one yellow card of suspension as they travel to Rotterdam hoping to become the first French finalists in the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 20 | A SINGING Sikh is hoping to become the first Asian to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records — as a chartbuster . |
| 21 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 22 | Originally we were planning to reward the first ten correct answers drawn out of the bag with a wonderful Sigma-Ray joystick , but unfortunately Markie ( feeble minded fool that he is ) mistook them for his laundry and took them home to be washed by his Mum . |
| 23 | Given the decision to opt out of the social charter in Europe can the Prime Minister confirm that he is planning to fight the next general election on the slogan ’ Vote Tory for the lowest wages , least consultation and worst employment protection in Europe ’ ? |
| 24 | Glasgow is planning to become the first Scottish city to ban the consumption of alcohol in the street . |