Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
| 2 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 3 | Of course , making an unauthorized copy of an Esperanto– English dictionary would infringe copyright , if only that subsisting in the typographical arrangement . |
| 4 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | The promised money fails to appear because , says the broker , of some failing in the would-be borrower . |
| 6 | Skógafoss is a sixty-seven metre monster , so wide and so tall , and so much falling in a single sweep that clouds of spray are produced . |
| 7 | This was to be a body of seventy-two members divided into eight subcommittees each specializing in a particular field of expenditure and backed by adequate staff . |
| 8 | Speaking to defence writers , he made clear he was against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation taking over responsibility for all peacekeeping in the former Yugoslavia should a ceasefire and peace be agreed . |
| 9 | We 're all living in a vicious circle . |
| 10 | While Foula has a population of about forty people nowadays , Mykines has fewer than a score of permanent residents , all living in a tight group of picturesque turf-roofed cottages situated on the cliff-top above the landing-place . |
| 11 | Immediately before your ‘ slot ’ Isabel and Karen will get us all going in a non-threatening way — game , etc. which will gently lead into your section . |
| 12 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 13 | As we neared the cemetery , the streets began to fill with people , all heading in the same direction . |
| 14 | We headed up the Ring Road towards Old Delhi , and as we drove the avenues began to fill with bicycle rickshaws , all heading in the same direction . |
| 15 | The earth was soft and crumbling , with a scattering of the weeds that are found in cultivated fields — fumitory , charlock , pimpernel and mayweed , all growing in the green gloom under the bean leaves . |
| 16 | All pulling in the same direction , you know . |
| 17 | the team leader at work who is concerned to ensure that members of the group are all pulling in the same direction towards greater productivity or an improved service . |
| 18 | For instrument approaches airfield QNH is to be used until approaching the Final Approach Fix or Final Approach Point , as appropriate , when QFE is to be set at the Initial Point and all flying in the visual circuit is to be conducted on QFE . |
| 19 | They were very low , twittering all round us , all flying in the same direction , low and happy . |
| 20 | That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet . |
| 21 | That has much to do with the bringing together of all participants in the one place — all staying in the same hotel , all competing at the same venue , all joining in the same events , culminating in the Barbarian Easter Tour-style tradition of each nation providing a ‘ cabaret ’ turn at the farewell banquet . |
| 22 | The mascara , coupled with the face-gleamer , all running in a southerly direction gave me the interesting look of a woman behind bars . |
| 23 | This was not obvious to most people in the later nineteenth century , and the general effect of the Second Law was to encourage the gloomy belief that in time the universe would die the heat death of general tepidity : that the universe would see Victorians and their foreseeable descendants out , its death being many million years away , was little consolation to believers in progress , who saw it all stopping in the distant future . |
| 24 | Sabine was among the many girls of Irish descent who entered one of eight regional finals held in Guinness Irish pubs throughout Germany , all culminating in the national final held in the Irish Pub in Berlin 's Europa Centre . |
| 25 | This ‘ profane illumination ’ , this ‘ poeticization of the banal ’ was a matter , for Breton , not just of painting , literature , and photography , but also of life and love , the latter arising in no small portion from an intoxication in connection with the things of the beloved . |
| 26 | The latter is a ‘ profane illumination ’ , a ‘ Weticization of the banal ’ and was a matter for Breton , not just of painting , literature , and photography , but also of life and love , the latter arising in no small portion from an ‘ intoxication ’ in connection with the things of the beloved . |
| 27 | I imagined it all dissolving in a white heat , or swept away in an enormous wind . |
| 28 | like when we 're all sitting in the front room at night and then they sa I think they chirp away to each other quite happily , you know . |
| 29 | We were all sitting in the great taproom . |
| 30 | The twins , George , their mothers , Lucy and her mother and Tom were all standing in the front room singing , while Sammy sat in the middle and howled . |