Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] behind [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He takes you round the block and back , does Eno , with few comforting reference points , although I sense echoes of early YMO and Yello lurking behind closed doors . |
| 2 | But the figure lurking behind all three is Mr de Soto . |
| 3 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 4 | Milky blue eyes disappearing behind bushy eyebrows , Thesiger told interviewer Julian Pettifer of the dignity , pure morality and barbaric splendour he had found in civilizations since destroyed by ‘ the drab uniformity of the modern world ’ . |
| 5 | Equally , common law remedies are riddled with so many complexities that they are unlikely to exercise much deterrent effect on conglomerate entities operating behind Chinese Walls . |
| 6 | This not only gave me access to the early morning shot of the Opera House from Farm Cove , but also a marvellous image of the disk of sun rising behind naval boats in the strangely-named harbour . |
| 7 | Each band was identified only by a number , and they were marked by adjudicators sitting behind closed doors . |
| 8 | However , his company Micro Xenox collapsed with debts estimated at £480,000 and Bart Kahn is reported to have disappeared from his Birmingham home leaving behind some very embarrassed computer executives . |
| 9 | Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire . |
| 10 | They say goodbye to wives who wear curlers , and they ride off on bikes with their scarves trailing behind like pennants . |
| 11 | The Conservatives returned to their panacea of imperial protectionism and even the Liberals , the historic party of free trade , began to question the dogma , influenced by Lloyd George 's experience in running the war economy and Keynes 's argument that deficit budgeting behind temporary import restrictions was the key to triggering a domestic economic revival . |
| 12 | 5.1 Despite having now examined three distinct structures which are all realized through an adjective immediately following a noun phrase , we have not yet exhausted the possibilities lying behind this simple sequence of English surface syntax . |
| 13 | Then he ran , plunging into a tunnel of darkness less fearful than the imagined horrors lurking behind that heavy dark-brown door . |
| 14 | The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony . |
| 15 | Under the heading ‘ Money-Lenders ’ Baits ' he showed his readers how the cormorants attempted to lure them into their net — advertisements from loan merchants hiding behind grand names like The Clerical and Medical Bank , in all parts of Britain , none of whom saw fit to mention the rates of interest they would charge , and some specifying Without Sureties . |
| 16 | Cottage hiding behind dank shrubbery like diorama of prehistoric Europe in Nat . |
| 17 | And finally , that afternoon in the graveyard , he knew the door had slammed on his life and the door was one of those big silver refrigerator doors and he saw his life hanging behind that door like meat . |
| 18 | It becomes oddly insulting , not only because it rules out appreciation of beautiful souls lurking behind plain faces , but also because the kind of admiration then given to the beautiful woman begins to assume that her equally lovely nature is sweet , kind , gentle and unselfish — an image of passive , yielding femininity . |
| 19 | I mean we had a lot of them are run anyway on credit , there 's no real capital lying behind those businesses . |
| 20 | Given the political rationale lying behind these sharp changes in the volume of aid directed to particular countries , it is clear that the promotion of the donors ' perceived national self-interest is closely bound up with aid . |
| 21 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 22 | The causes lying behind such a declaration had to be serious ( the denial of rights , the breaking of the feudal bond ) , and every attempt to resolve a possible conflict by negotiation had to be made . |
| 23 | The dawn breaking behind closed shutters . |
| 24 | St Martin 's church , with its Gothic tower rising behind pink-walled vicarage , has its own collection of local relics . |
| 25 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 26 | Everything seemed fresher , brighter , more real today , as though all his quite normal , perfectly standard surroundings had until this point been actors fumbling behind some thin stage curtain , struggling to get out , but now stood , triumphant expression frozen on face , hands spread , going " Ta-Raah ! " on the boards at last . |
| 27 | Now the tot faces leaving behind all her friends to start again in a class full of strangers . |
| 28 | They spent their time hiding behind low stone walls and leaping out at motorists travelling in bus lanes . |