Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hurricane lost it and flew round for five minutes , going down to 400 feet above the water to avoid appearing on the radar screens on nearby Italian-occupied islands . |
| 2 | This controversial political lineage caused the Republican Party establishment to disown him , and in several states there were plans to attempt to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot papers . |
| 3 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 4 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 5 | The demonstrators came despite pelting snow and rumours that tanks and armoured vehicles were lurking on the city outskirts . |
| 6 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 7 | I was more interested in the kittiwakes nesting on the window ledges , and spent some time photographing them . |
| 8 | They have a marvellous time , but the best thing of all is totally unexpected — a family of sparrows nesting on the zoo gates on the way out . |
| 9 | The boat was propelled either by ‘ legging ’ ) the crew lying on their backs or sides and pushing on the tunnel walls with their feet — or by ‘ shafting ’ — pushing with the boat shaft ( pole ) against the tunnel roof . |
| 10 | Braking was achieved through a foot brake operating on the rear wheels of the tug , a hand brake exerting on the same wheels and a second hand brake acting on the trailer wheels . |
| 11 | The Active Transport Control uses a nitrogen accumulator in the hydraulic lift circuit to smooth out shock loadings caused by the implement bouncing on the lift arms . |
| 12 | When Swayne stopped speaking small sounds reached them from the street : a woman 's heels tapping on the paving stones , a snatch of conversation from the people opposite … |
| 13 | Miners say that they indicate the whereabouts of the ore by tapping on the shaft walls with their antler-picks , hence the name . |
| 14 | Women were remarking on the window hangings — ‘ You could hang my whole downstairs with one of those red curtains , ’ said Mary McCulloch , ‘ and have a length left over for the beds . ’ |
| 15 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 16 | The parents of one boy , Moses Bentum of Bexley , south London were rejected because , according to the council , they had made themselves homeless by defaulting on the mortgage payments . |
| 17 | Although remaining on the statute books , Nemery 's version had not been applied since 1985 . |
| 18 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 19 | It was there that she saw the man lying on the plastic strips of an off-white metal reclining chair beside the pool , which was undoubtedly smaller than it had looked in the photograph . |
| 20 | They were hauling the first of the thin , encasing layers over the top of the frame , the heavily-suited men pulling on the guide ropes . |
| 21 | One is a scene apparently in a vineyard , since grapes are growing on the vine stems . |
| 22 | Bristol is penetrated by calcium-loving vegetation growing on the limestone cliffs of the Avon Gorge . |
| 23 | Stuart had been more aware of their existence this year , walking up to lectures at the university , going through the Grassmarket or the gardens , seeing drab figures squatting on the stone steps , or standing outside the hotel in the evening by the vents from the kitchen where the steam formed vapour clouds and it was possible to inhale the smell of food with the intensity of a drug . |
| 24 | Already we are encroaching on the specialist areas that deserve separate attention in following Chapters . |
| 25 | Then draw out the kite full-size , marking on the spar positions and planning where the pockets will be needed and the reinforcements . |
| 26 | Helping herself , Daisy noticed he never took his eyes off the play and was now turning on the windscreen wipers to watch a dark-haired boy coax a fat roan pony down the field . |
| 27 | Turning on the brass taps , she half filled the bath with warm water . |
| 28 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 29 | At this early stage the caterpillars are fairly easy to find because while still quite small they live inside a silk canopy , which they spin around themselves when feeding on the nettle tops . |
| 30 | It is the oxygenating plants that provide the key to the problems , for greenness in the water is caused by thousands of minute primitive free floating algae feeding on the mineral salts that are present . |