Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [v-ing] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And just as linguistics ought to be able to account for the structure and organization of as yet unspoken sentences , so poetics ought to be able to account for the rules governing as yet unwritten works of literature : ‘ Each work is therefore regarded only as the manifestation of an abstract and general structure , of which it is but one of the possible realizations . |
| 2 | A source close to Mr Vance and Lord Owen said Mr Izetbegovic declined to discuss any substance during the morning meeting because of the fighting . |
| 3 | Bridger said yesterday : ‘ I have had several phone calls during the summer wondering if Amrullah was going to continue racing and he still seems to love the idea of carrying on . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , I have made her immortal : my old friend Will Shakespeare wrote a play about a Danish prince called Hamlet who moons about the stage wondering whether he should kill his murderous mother . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had rooms full of glass cases upstairs with people stuck to sheets of cardboard , the pins through the spines quivering as the limbs twitched . |
| 6 | If any damage is done or if any injury occurs after the initial taking while the car is being driven , the aggravated offence is committed , even if the car is being driven sensibly or carefully . |
| 7 | And I 'm not being funny but when Malcolm did it , we would do that almost two or three days after the stock taking if there were odd counts . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'm in fer a right 'idin' if I ai n't got that bleedin' contraption out o' the 'ouse by the time my Joshua comes 'ome , ‘ specially if 'e 's bin on the turps again . |
| 9 | John felt the hull of the yacht vibrating as the tanker approached . |
| 10 | Copies of the plan remaining after distribution will have to be stored by Planning and Co-ordinations Section . |
| 11 | We could spend the rest of the night looking if we have no guides . " |
| 12 | We look up into the sky , we watch the shapes of the clouds changing till we recognize a picture . |
| 13 | More experimental work in oils runs down the central spine of the exhibition including as it does both the ring form Sea and Rocks ( 534 ) and the hessian Collage in Brown of Trees ( 34 ) . |
| 14 | Instead of the Wallabies asking if anyone would turn up , there were several city employers wondering if any of their staff would turn up after the 30-minute parade ended followed by a ceremony at Town Hall where captain Nick-Farr Jones was presented the key to the City of Sydney . |
| 15 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 16 | He watched the body hit in a spray of snow then turned away , the roar of the wind abating as he drew the hatch closed behind him . |
| 17 | At the moment of firing he closed his eyes tight , but he never heard the crack of the Winchester discharging because it was drowned in the roar of Jacques Devraux 's Mauser . |
| 18 | Donna left the hazard lights of the Volvo flashing as she hurried up the steps towards the main entrance of the Dublin National Gallery . |
| 19 | The china was so thin that Dougal could see the level of the tea swaying as she stirred it . |
| 20 | The reader responds to another example of the truth emerging as the ‘ cloud of ideology ’ is dispelled . |
| 21 | Chapter 9 considers some of the issues arising when a contract for such a project is placed with an outside organization . |
| 22 | The same segment of the population working as producers and consumers here creates quite contrasting images , although analysis reveals them as emanating from a consistent set of interests . |
| 23 | If the tree has not yet reached its mature height , then you may wish to anticipate the likelihood of a problem occurring if the tree is allowed to grow unchecked . |
| 24 | I thought it was a bit of a cheek seeing as I 'm due here mornings but I 've nothing against Mrs. Schofield and if she wanted me I was n't above obliging . |
| 25 | One case too many of a shopper suing after he tripped up in a supermarket is more likely to trigger reform than a hundred multimillion dollar claims against accountants . |
| 26 | Although this case provides an example of an action succeeding where no method of enforcement is provided by the statute , it appears unlikely that it will be followed in this area . |
| 27 | In practice however awareness is unequal , variable , uncertain , with impassable limits even in the case of self-knowledge , so that we can never take the full measure of our reactions from all viewpoints ; like the child wondering whether to risk another helping at dinner , we require an ‘ ought ’ whenever we are losing sight of the reaction at an unsustainable height of awareness . |
| 28 | Middle leaned against the door panting while Little and Great Big rebolted the door and lifted the bars back into place . |
| 29 | He stood aside and leaned his back against the wire paling as the hearse came round the comer . |
| 30 | More like a volcano erupting than a steam engine blowing its top , Nick always said , but he was touchy about it because it made him sick the first time . |