Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And op'ning Lips the tainted Breath betray … |
| 2 | Patten was also blasted for ‘ denying children a hot meal ’ with cuts in school dinners . |
| 3 | If you are using models a good deal keep a model book with notes on how each one has been used before , what they look particularly well in and any other relevant notes . |
| 4 | In fact the proposal which he 's promoting needs a three mile new road cutting across the landscape . |
| 5 | As 20 stewards busied about serving guests a sumptuous feast , Diana happily chatted away to both president Mitterrand and Spanish foreign minister Don Javier Solana Madariaga . |
| 6 | Certainly I think we 're in very great danger of Leeds Bradford , if we start pushing things a great deal more . |
| 7 | You might charitably allow an Academic with spellcasting powers an Int test ( with a -25 penalty ) to recognize that this ritual does n't seem to have anything to do with travel , but does have quite a lot to do with death and blood . |
| 8 | Dismissing suggestions the First Division is sub-standard this season and that Newcastle 's 11-point lead is a false reflection of their quality , he said : ‘ Ask Leeds whether it 's rubbish . ’ |
| 9 | She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’ |
| 10 | A system of mandatory fees was long justified by the RIBA in terms of both protecting architects from the power of clients and ensuring that design standards were maintained by guaranteeing architects a reasonable return for their work . |
| 11 | For both hybrid and variable-reluctance stepping motors the fundamental component of phase voltage is [ from Eqns . |
| 12 | For single-stack variable-reluctance stepping motors the direct summation is not strictly valid , since the mutual inductance between phases contributes an additional torque component ( Fitzgerald and Kingsley , 1952 ) . |
| 13 | Warrington-based NWW , the first of the major water companies to report results , is paying shareholders a total dividend of 21.4p per share . |
| 14 | In their intermediation role between savers and borrowers , banks , building societies and other financial institutions earn profits by paying savers a lower rate of interest on deposits and charging a higher rate on loans to customers . |
| 15 | Bush 's scheme would brighten prospects for nuclear power by granting companies a single licence to build and operate nuclear plants . |
| 16 | The staff were pared to the bone and in order to open the house to paying visitors the stable block was turned into a tea room and gift shop . |
| 17 | While cleaning friers the boiling solution in the well can be used with advantage to clean various other small items of equipment . |
| 18 | This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies . |
| 19 | The evidence is clear , too , that in mining districts the first part of the nineteenth century saw a serious erosion of holidays . |
| 20 | In prefiguring insurrections the following year in British Honduras and Trinidad , the Taranto uprising had a profound effect on the development of black nationalism in the British Caribbean . |
| 21 | In considering tenders the contract-awarding body was obliged to treat all offers equally — there should be no discrimination between home and foreign bids . |
| 22 | It should not be introduced at too early a stage ; teaching pupils a new dialect may be confusing when they are learning many other aspects of language use . |
| 23 | After allowing passengers a short time at Barmouth , the engines were exchanged and 75069 , hauling the London train , left at 1530 , crossed the local in Tywyn at 1600 , left Tywyn at 1620 , arrived Machynlleth at 1650 and departed at 1716 , on its way to Shrewsbury . |
| 24 | WOLVERHAMPTON and Dudley Breweries pumped out record year-end profits of £35.2m , up 7% , with a hefty 11% dividend increase to 11.4p , giving shareholders a pre-Christmas bonus . |
| 25 | Liberal Year Of Culture licensing laws are giving Glaswegians an unprecedented freedom to party , and the dance scene is rising to the challenge . |
| 26 | This was done by giving subjects a maximum number of accidents which their estimates could not exceed . |
| 27 | Starting with Homer and finishing with Virginia Woolf , Auerbach uses this framework to characterize the different ways in which a selection of writers represented reality across the centuries , and in so doing traces the gradual abandonment of the principle of decorum in favour of a more modern standard , according to which seriousness and realism are wholly compatible . |
| 28 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 29 | Biddy had never let them down , come without fail all through the bad weather , and now was giving Nails an intensive course on her own horse which — in terms of money — was worth another couple of hundred pounds . |
| 30 | Besides breaking the law they were , by flaunting themselves and pestering passers-by , causing an intolerable degree of embarrassment and giving visitors a deplorable impression of London 's immorality . |