Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | For just one fleeting moment , Robbie visualised a long warm sultry afternoon in her cabin or on Water Gypsy 's deck , with the subtle torture of knowing Fen was close at hand but totally unavailable . |
| 2 | Ianthe smiled uneasily , feeling that some kind of guessing game was being played between them and that she ought to play her part by making a suggestion as to what the work could have been . |
| 3 | The other side to English hesitation in offering houseroom was a belief in the independence of the old . |
| 4 | A further indictment of editing practice was provided by BBC 2 's Brass Tacks programme of 30 November 1985 . |
| 5 | Mistakes of that sort apart , it would seem that , as had always been the case , some sort of checking system was needed to give lenders the required degree of confidence to carry on , and that the more thorough and ‘ scientific ’ it was the better for both borrower and lender , the more effectively it reduced the incidence of overindebtedness , and saved borrowers from overstretching themselves and indulging in mad bouts of impulsive buying . |
| 6 | The nauseating sound of breaking bone was immediately followed by a crash as another blow to the side of the head dropped him like a stone . |
| 7 | Finlay Calder 's reasonable insistence that all of the Lions party who wished should be included on the trip , accompanied by wives or girlfriends , followed by his non-availability when this chance of expressing gratitude was rejected , have seen to that . |
| 8 | Further evidence of slackening efforts was the reduction in a number of countries ' energy efficiency budgets . |
| 9 | Meanwhile another method of utilising livestock was explored : the preservation of slaughtered meat , by the traditional methods of salting and drying , by some sort of concentration ( Liebig 's meat extract began to be produced in the River Plate states in 1863 ) , by canning and finally by the decisive device of refrigeration . |
| 10 | Another method of retaining control was by keeping a firm grip on hours of work . |
| 11 | This method of catching fish was an early form of modern-day trawling . |
| 12 | This awareness of im-pending disaster was exacerbated in the early seventies when a slump occurred in the property market . |
| 13 | Another reason for choosing Collins was the designer 's penchant for wood epoxy construction , an attractive , strong and relatively easy method of building which allows plenty of scope for the interior to be custom-designed and completed to the owner 's specification . |
| 14 | The strongest reason for voting Labour was indeed its commitment to improving welfare , repairing the damage Thatcherism has done to the social fabric . |
| 15 | This aspect of moving signs was studied by Evans ( 1981 ) in an unpublished short study in Bristol . |
| 16 | In this way of thinking war was seen as an attempt to pursue a ‘ reasonable ’ claim which was being forcibly threatened or attacked , which implied not merely the use of force but the means of persuasion ( propaganda ) and discussion ( negotiation ) as well . |
| 17 | so the second level of using theory was to actually begin to find out what I could do to help myself and that threw me into the middle of ‘ what is knowledge ? ’ |
| 18 | The perceived difficulty of ending marriages was doubtless one of the reasons for the increased concern with wife-battering which was of major import in the 1860s and 1870s . |
| 19 | The principal vehicle for implementing change was the dissemination of the company plan mapping out the route to cost competitiveness through work reorganization . |
| 20 | The union suspected that the real reason for preferring Asiatics was that they were cheaper and ate less . |
| 21 | The actual industrial structure of the mid-1960s , by which time the massive Robens-led reduction in mining employment was already underway , is given in Table 3.1 and compared with the situation in 1976 and 1986 . |
| 22 | The LDP 's previous proposal for voting reform was to replace the Japanese system with a first-past-the-post system . |
| 23 | A rapid method of assaying samples was essential in order to discover which extracts were giving the best yields , and the sooner a stable crude preparation was obtained which could act as a standard , the better . |
| 24 | The chief architect of this incredible advance in bombing efficiency was unquestionably Don Bennett . |
| 25 | The conventional method of recording orchestras was to place microphones throughout the ensemble ; Fine contended that given a hall with excellent acoustic properties , a single ultra-sensitive microphone should be capable of capturing the sound of a symphony orchestra with unprecedented clarity , balance and definition . |
| 26 | The commended approach to teaching strategies was highly partisan in respect of the particular kinds of practice which were endorsed . |
| 27 | The scientists ' work confirmed their initial suspicions : that the undoubted improvement in parachuting ability was a fortuitous result of the development of the fringes for these other purposes . |
| 28 | They completed nearly 16,000 newly-built dwellings in the year to September 1991 , and together with acquisition and renovation of houses for letting , building for shared ownership sale , and other activities , the total output of housing associations was almost 22,000 units in 1990-91 , compared with only 16,000 in 1979 . |
| 29 | Capellan hands directed the operations , Capellan machinery accomplished the construction , but it was by and for the humans of Earth , her nearest neighbour , that the great work of habilitating Mars was undertaken . |
| 30 | Although regular use of itinerating magistrates was made in some areas later in the century , many villages remained thirty or forty kilometres from the nearest police court , and some were much |