Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cramped and cold in his hide , he listened as the sounds of the day fell from him into silence one by one , until he could hear the measured pacing of the watch on the walk between the gate-towers . |
| 2 | The simultaneous bringing into play of two senses can be effected either by coordination , as in 32 , where John and his driving licence select different senses of the verb expire , or by anaphora , as in 33 : |
| 3 | But I 'm very annoyed with er , the incessant canting about the John Major government . |
| 4 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 5 | He snatched up the worm-cake and bit into it , forcing the bitter chocolate past the awful gagging in his throat . |
| 6 | Tallis went outside quickly , alert for the boy , her own heart racing in response to the awful wailing from the woods . |
| 7 | The villus height depends upon two factors ; firstly on cellular multiplication and differentiation from the crypts ; and secondly on the migration of mature cells along the villus axis , accompanied by the cellular shedding from the apex . |
| 8 | Is it a major historical turning-point , implying the complete re-fashioning of the economy , of production and of the geography of production ? |
| 9 | I 'd opened all the windows in the flat , drenching the atmosphere in car fumes and the uproar of the unemployed arguing in the street . |
| 10 | Remember to keep these screws well back , to be hidden by the frame , because although the Faithful kneeling at the altar are meant to have their minds on other things , this is professional woodwork and we do n't want them peering up the legs of our fixings . |
| 11 | There were parties paid for by the interested ranging from Lord King of BA to The Times newspapers . |
| 12 | To meet the immediate problems , the vital priorities were the proper progressing of the manufacture of designs for nearly 6000MW of plant planned or under construction by the former undertakings , and the acceleration of work in progress on sites . |
| 13 | The left-hand fingering in this position is very crucial ( refer back to example 3 for the visual ) . |
| 14 | ft was the mindless pacing of a caged animal . |
| 15 | In the great conservative monarchies of Prussia , Russia and the Habsburg empire military influences , reflected in such small but highly significant things as the habitual wearing by their rulers of army uniforms , pervaded the atmosphere of the court and many of the upper reaches of government . |
| 16 | Truth , justice , charity itself demanded the rigorous safeguarding of property dedicated to God and the saints . |
| 17 | In other terms , knowing is not represented as the direct experiencing of a phenomenon here , but rather , as with the passive of perceptual verbs , as the condition for attibuting a characteristic to someone . |
| 18 | It is probably ample to accommodate the spontaneous arising of DNA or RNA . |
| 19 | This is because those two theories postulate a particular event — the spontaneous arising of a self-replicating entity — as occurring only once in about a billion years , once per aeon . |
| 20 | This may in turn have caused the forelegs of prosauropods ( the Triassic forerunners of sauropods ) to become more massive , stimulated as they were by the repeated dropping onto all fours when moving slowly . |
| 21 | The theoretical underpinning for this is given by the theory of portfolio balance . |
| 22 | The one in particular I 'm referring to you will see we 'd all see the Son of Man , they they 'd recognised that reference to himself Son of Man , they 'd recognised that because that comes out of the Old Testament Book of Daniel does n't it , the Son of Man seated on the right hand of the Almighty coming with the clouds of heaven . |
| 23 | The bulk of the issue is devoted to an acrimonious article full of names and packdrill , a furious rebuttal from the accused , a reply from the accusers , and , tucked away at the back , a letter from the accused replying to the reply . |
| 24 | She said most of it was it was n't the actual looking at the hole it was that she was hurting him pushing it in . |
| 25 | Readiness for war , as well as the actual waging of war , becomes a principal political concern , military leaders acquire a more prominent place in the political system , and the economy is geared increasingly to military needs , giving rise to what has been called the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ as one of the main centres of power and of economic growth . |
| 26 | Detailed studies of the distribution of animals and plants were made throughout the nineteenth century , often employing amateurs to do the actual surveying under the leadership of a few professionals . |
| 27 | The fact that we give each other little clues , invitations and propositions , gives a transparency to our motives , but it also builds excitement and suspense about the actual unveiling of each coming together . |
| 28 | The actual arranging of transactions with a counterparty in the UK is also not covered ; however , the better view is that arrangements are only made in the UK if the overseas person physically comes into the UK and , if he does not , the overseas person exemption is , therefore , not needed . |
| 29 | For those seeking bhavana , it is ready to be discerned in a hundred daily occurrences : it will be manifested in a small or generous action ; and there is a joy in the mere searching for this bhavana in the everyday world . |
| 30 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |