Example sentences of "of [noun] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following morning we were up at 3.00am , accepted slices of bread and jam and joined the line of headtorches walking up the glacier . |
| 2 | A pride of lions hunting down a prey animal , such as a zebra , is one of nature 's more awesome spectacles . |
| 3 | Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry . |
| 4 | The report found that by the end of April this year , ADAS had not agreed a corporate plan with the Ministry of Agriculture covering both the service 's commercial and public good work . |
| 5 | Local races that produce the cyclists of the Low Countries are characteristically kermesses , a large and mixed bunch of riders chasing round a small town-and-country circuit : all very physical , and without much time or inclination for tactics . |
| 6 | Our principal concern here is the delegation of decision making down the hierarchy . |
| 7 | And of course holding together a part like Juliet with long gaps between the performance nights and no real rehearsal in between is difficult to do — that can be rather hairy . |
| 8 | ( I am of course ignoring here the question of the neuro-physiological maturation underlying the development of ego-functions at about the age of seven which was discussed above ( see p. 33–4 ) . |
| 9 | Thus , in addition to the basic meaning of ‘ constitution ’ — a document containing , at the very least , a code of rules setting out the allocation of functions , powers and duties among the various agencies and officers of government — there is a wider meaning of constitution , according to which every democratic state has a constitution . |
| 10 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 11 | A further reason for the small number of appeals is that there is only a small pool of cases involving principally the interpretation of legislation or the resolution of conflicting cases . |
| 12 | ‘ And this heap of fur taking up the warmest spot is Blue . |
| 13 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 14 | Lastly , there are a number of differences between groups of institutions making up the monetary sector . |
| 15 | Under Left Wall was a gaggle of climbers zooming up the classics . |
| 16 | A disconsolate group of climbers sitting round a kitchen table all lean forward and peer out at the iron-grey clouds rumbling past . |
| 17 | As with new courses , in any one session , of all candidates actively involved in assessments , some will be taking assessments which are early steps along the way to the award , whilst others will be taking assessments which will complete the set of subjects making up the group awards . |
| 18 | Got ta make cups of tea coming down every half hour . |
| 19 | The scale of the structures around them is so huge they look like teams of porters marching over a range of hills to a mine . |
| 20 | One of the agents observing some fragments of rock clattering down the shaft and falling around him , warned , " take care or you will have your brains knocked out . " |
| 21 | The event orientation is built around the accurate identification of signals indicating when the customer needs a new line of credit , what the line might be and why it may be needed . |
| 22 | The volume of data making up a single MSS image places some restrictions on its use . |
| 23 | There was row upon row of rooms and carpeted corridors , revealed by their tensely-held torches , the ghostly yellow pools of light allowing only the objects that slid in and out of them to be examined . |
| 24 | At the end of a shaft of light streaming down an alley which led to the river , a scorpion dozed on a broken brick , though at Huy 's approach the little brown statue bristled , pincers and sting instantly alert . |
| 25 | The paper proposed for each area of the curriculum for pupils 5–14 ‘ a nationally agreed set of guidelines setting out the aims of study , the content to be covered , and the objectives to be achieved ’ . |
| 26 | Lack of scattering does not , however , explain the existence of plateaux extending over a range of values of the gate voltage . |
| 27 | Leave a crust of blood hanging on the nails |
| 28 | With a ruthless new breed of killers taking over the leadership reigns , the threat to the Roman Catholic community is now higher than it has ever been . |
| 29 | The analysis of the search space carried out in this chapter should help to focus attention on the discriminating requirement of top-down information in terms of the number and similarity of hypotheses competing over a stretch of the utterance , and of the distance between pruning points ( i.e. the grammar ‘ chunks ’ ) , the two factors which determine the potential combinatorial explosion of hypotheses . |
| 30 | If the investigation is a sustained piece of work extending over a period of weeks , a diary work file or log book of activities should be maintained . |