Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BISCUITS , petit fours , little cakes and cocktail canapes look good arranged in rows , each consisting of one variety . |
| 2 | that dredging for this voice has drowned no other |
| 3 | The new money will still leave gearing at 60 per cent , but Mr Scott says the company will be happy with that level of debt , given that gearing at other transport groups can be as high as 90 per cent . |
| 4 | Since the days of Diaghilev and his commissioning of scores exclusive to one ballet from such composers as Stravinsky , this pandering to technical prowess has rarely happened . |
| 5 | Intel needs to do some stroking among this class of customer even though Intel defenders claim the P5 schematics designers are using in the absence of silicon are so exact they should have little trouble getting up and running and out the door once the chips are delivered . |
| 6 | This equating of non-natural user with unreasonable risk in negligence seems to have been recognised by MacKenna J. in Mason v. Levy Auto parts of England Ltd . |
| 7 | People were coming from the museum , some looking with open curiosity at Rain and Oliver . |
| 8 | And if you if you compare those diagonal markings with the sorts of markings on on er some of these other stones , these these are a bit diagonal but if you look carefully they go there 're some going in that direction and some are going that direction . |
| 9 | Are you saving this on disk or is this going onto hard disk ? |
| 10 | This liking for old gear means that they both spend a lot of time hunting it down , as Bryan explains … |
| 11 | This taking into municipal ownership of a variety of undertakings had various aims for those of differing political persuasions . |
| 12 | This was their one mistake , this entering on unfamiliar territory — his territory . |
| 13 | It was this version of the union treaty that was to have been signed by Russian and other representatives on 20 August , and it was apparently to prevent this weakening of central authority , particularly in military and budgetary matters , that the attempted coup was launched one day beforehand . |
| 14 | Brian and Andy lounged against the edge of the dining-table at the back of the group , half watching the television , half talking to each other . |
| 15 | Despite the rapid growth of ill feeling between Minton and Vaughan , their home at Hamilton Terrace attracted many visitors , who turned up as and when they wished , some hoping for roast beef at breakfast as Minton frequently began cooking a large joint at eleven o'clock at night . |
| 16 | Whatever the reasons for Labour 's weak performance in the 1987 election , few working within urban government can regard this as anything but unfortunate . |
| 17 | It 's only the beginning , this arranging of soy sauce , it 's only a start . |
| 18 | And you see all the beams are chamfered , not so much for decoration but because they seem to have done that according to latest research , done that to take the bark off because it was the bark where the parasites tended to get in . |
| 19 | The situation today is divorced from what Mill/Rousseau envisaged , each believing in participatory democracy contained within the ideal of a ‘ rational , active , and informed democratic man ’ . |
| 20 | There was too much riding on one man . |
| 21 | Most people will gain a greater sense of inner peace — something that is very much lacking in this day and age . |
| 22 | In the sixteenth century and later there was much covering in limp parchment or vellum , the difference between the two being almost impossible to define accurately . |
| 23 | This picture of A1 2558 ‘ Tracery ’ passing Staveley South at speed on the 10.00 Marylebone-Manchester was the very first such working after this type was transferred to the GC in 1930 . |
| 24 | Furthermore it was discovered not only that the ratio of physician to population was substantially worse than for Israel or Jordan but that owing to insufficient funding and planning , 280 doctors were actually unemployed in the territories and another 120 were employed on low salaries under a local professional union 's absorption programme . |
| 25 | ‘ Ooh , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ fancy all that going to little Arsehole … ’ |
| 26 | A second Abridgement was published in 1741 and others followed in 1748 and 1754 , all consisting of three octavo volumes . |
| 27 | But once pounds and deutschmarks and francs and lira were all competing against each other in every high street , their exchange rates would always reflect what each currency could actually buy . |
| 28 | There were 7 such centres in England in 1988 , all catering for primary age children ( DES , 1988 , Table A1 ) . |
| 29 | So too did religious books , with new books from our many friends at ‘ 121 ’ and good old ones from the libraries of several retired Ministers all contributing to this success . |
| 30 | Er and therefore the the overall effect is a more of spreading the traffic than simply it all appearing on one route . |