Example sentences of "a [adj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you consistently — and by that I mean once or twice daily — follow this waist plan you will feel and see a definite toning up of the whole line . |
| 2 | First , the re-study noted a marked slowing down in the rate of change , partly because there was little left to change , particularly in the arable areas . |
| 3 | Lancing 's master-in-charge , John Wilks , described the scoreline as ‘ a perfect summing up of the match — dull ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Sharing is n't attractive any more to us , ’ Bromley says , a verbal throwing in of the towel . |
| 5 | A rapid tidying up of the encampment was carried out . |
| 6 | We should make no mistake about the political nature of these developments , but a horrified throwing in of the towel is no response on the part of those who would manage the service in the interests of pupils . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the early Dalek episodes had a Thal going down to the shore of a lake at night to collect some water . |
| 8 | The grounding could be the beginning of the end for the Wessex — with a gradual phasing out over the next few years : |
| 9 | The eight men , from St John 's College , came in for a severe dressing down from the police after they bared all on a two-mile row down the River Isis . |
| 10 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 11 | It was obviously a send-up of The Face but it nevertheless reflected a certain smartening up in the band . |
| 12 | Visitor numbers at the museum also saw a sharp falling off under the Fuchs administration : of the 200,000 expected in 1991 , only 124,000 materialised . |
| 13 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 14 | Every few seconds a plane would take off as another approached the cross runway , with a third coming in behind the take-off plane to land . |
| 15 | The main features that any such model has to explain are a slight warming of the world ( at least , of the northern hemisphere , for which good records are available ) from the late 19th century up to the 1940s. and a subsequent cooling up to the 1970s . |
| 16 | That is , to the extent that the responses were the result of critical reflection they clearly show that left policies were lacking in credibility and attractiveness , yet insofar as the responses represented an uncritical carrying over of the ‘ media ’ line this would seem to suggest that the concerns of the left failed to strike the masses as of immediate practical importance ; the left policies can not have appeared to meet the practical needs of the working class , or else the Labour identifiers polled would not have been content to reiterate the media line with regard to those policies . |
| 17 | It was surely great to be an American going up in the greatest company in the world and in the greatest country in the world . |