Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was very pretty , this girl , dressed in a bright green cheong sam , her dark hair gleaming with natural oil , and framing a pert , oriental face . |
| 2 | Beside her Rune looked what he was , she thought — purposeful and determined , master of his own destiny , the skin of his golden jaw so smooth that he must have shaved again before coming to pick her up , his hair gleaming in molten strands as the sunlight played on it . |
| 3 | Five-year-old graphical user interface house XVT Software Inc in Boulder , Colorado has picked up $1m in first-round financing from JMI Equity Fund Ltd in Sugar Land , Texas : the company says the money will be used to underwrite further development of portable interactive design tools and portable object-oriented tools . |
| 4 | On the contrary , many of the cultures and their interrelationships are deeply marked by relations of discrimination and subordination stemming from structural inequalities . |
| 5 | I can see the grime under my toenails , I can feel my hair hanging in greasy clumps . |
| 6 | She stopped immediately , her heart thumping in sudden fright as she saw that the chapel was occupied . |
| 7 | Secondly , the provision of better educational material for teaching naming to young children . |
| 8 | If , as Marxism postulates , the final catastrophe of Capitalism is to be triggered by a crisis of under-utilisation of capacity and of over-supply of goods , then the General Theory provides the remedy : a positive investment policy by the State and deficit financing in certain circumstances . |
| 9 | She presents us with a glistening floor bordered by a number of bells hanging from long ropes , each lit from above to produce its own pool of light . |
| 10 | They wore ‘ jewellery ’ of sloe and hawthorn berries , blues and reds hanging from thorny crowns . |
| 11 | Both these rather delicately proportioned plants have more difficulty competing with other vigorous vegetation on the open river bank than they do in the neat crevices which man has provided for them . |
| 12 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 13 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 14 | British Telecommunications Plc says it is working with both Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc to develop products that will provide customers the ability to manage complex internetworks consisting of local area networks and British Telecom 's internetwork services . |
| 15 | Indeed , an early CDP inter-project report was devoted to dismissing such cultural explanations of the situation of areas like North Shields in favour of structural accounts centring on industrial change and its consequences . |
| 16 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 17 | Aggersborg , the largest , contained forty-eight houses , arranged in blocks of four grouped in threes in each of the quadrants formed by two internal roads intersecting at right angles . |
| 18 | But Ward agreed that it would still be very difficult to stop Hamilton-Jones competing in big road races or marathons in which thousands of runners take part . |
| 19 | The sequence is probably preserved in a fault-bounded trough in an area long thought to comprise only Triassic strata resting on Cambrian or earlier basement . |
| 20 | The recent wave of lawlessness , in which more than 150 people were reportedly murdered , had been fuelled by fierce fighting between rival student groups competing for scarce dormitory spaces at Dhaka University . |
| 21 | The roofs are flat , fully exposed to the rain , made by packing mud on wooden reeds resting on wooden beams . |
| 22 | It is also true that British companies got more than 76% of the contracts stemming from official British loans and grants in 1989 . |
| 23 | And in our psychiatric rehabilitation centres for men and women of all ages recovering from mental illness . |
| 24 | And in our psychiatric rehabilitation centres for men and women of all ages recovering from mental illness . |
| 25 | Casein glue , therefore , is sold as a white dry powder consisting of dried whey , caustic soda or something similar , and lime . |
| 26 | The proportion of local authority income deriving from central government grants grew steadily from the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | ( See generally as to the privilege attaching to medical reports : Worrall v Rich [ 1955 ] 1 QB 296 , and Causton v Mann Egerton ( Johnsons ) Ltd [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 162 . ) |
| 28 | Lodged at the heart of Nizan 's fictional enterprise are two competing discourses struggling in narrative combat . |
| 29 | This could be achieved in one of two defined ways : a two-tier board consisting of separate managing and supervisory boards ( on the present German model ) , or a one-tier board ( as at present in the UK ) but with a split of the management and supervisory functions . |
| 30 | If animals are given Pavlovian conditioning with a compound CS consisting of separable components , the amount of strength gained by one of these components after a given number of training trials will be less than would be acquired if that component had been trained alone . |