Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [v-ing] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All was silent in the rehearsal room , except for the actors speaking their lines . |
| 2 | Fred 's voice came through the headphones to her and she glanced towards the control-room , barely seeing the figures clustered behind the glass for the tears clouding her eyes . |
| 3 | Mr Reynolds often looked tired and anxious during the days preceding his operation and it was important that the ward nurses gave him opportunities to ask questions and express his fears and also ensured that he had time to rest . |
| 4 | In a way , the pattern of her life was much the same as during the years following her mother 's death : she ate alone and as soon as she heard her father 's key in the door she went upstairs to her room . |
| 5 | It 's a scandal , and it 's got to be stopped It 's these same senior directors of these same utility companies who are lecturing our members about the problems facing their industries . |
| 6 | This is by no means to be unrealistic about the difficulties facing our dialogue . |
| 7 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 8 | Luke and Sonny had taken off their jackets and high hard collars and now sat with their shirt sleeves rolled up , the noon sun shining through the windows warming their backs . |
| 9 | The pièce de résistance of high drama in any hospital setting is a group of junior doctors rushing through the corridors clutching their crash bleeps on their way to a cardiopulmonary arrest . |
| 10 | The knife gripped between his teeth slightly distorted Rev. Levitt 's articulation but did not inhibit his chatter , which rose above the shrieks of the fowls beating their wings in panic against the coop and the even more frenzied squawking of the hen imprisoned in his hands . |
| 11 | pointed out ) an effective police force requires a margin of reserve strength in order to deal with emergencies , and to employ that margin of reserve , when not otherwise required , on special police service for payment is to the advantage both of the persons utilising their services and of the public who are thereby relieved from some part of the police charges . |
| 12 | The complexity of the problems facing our planet and the difficulty in making any accurate prediction of their future pattern present a valuable opportunity for ‘ interdisciplinary ’ work — the linking of teaching and research across Faculty and subject boundaries , allowing social , moral and ethical issues to be debated in a scientific context , bridging the divide between the ‘ two cultures ’ . |
| 13 | The authorities on Feb. 21 banned demonstrations following large-scale protests by students who claimed that the government was attempting a " cover-up " of the circumstances surrounding his death , and had demanded Moi 's resignation . |
| 14 | Some are content to praise or vilify Althusser while never engaging deeply with his views , and many of the debates surrounding his work are conducted at this superficial level . |
| 15 | The tone of this is very sad and tender ; the idea portrayed is that of the soldiers finding their friend dead and taking care of him . |
| 16 | Type I collagen is the predominant collagen in cirrhotic livers , and RFLPs have been observed at both of the loci encoding its two different constituent polypeptide chains ; COL1A1 on chromosome 17 , encoding the α1(1) chain and COL1A2 on chromosome 7 , encoding the α2(1) chain . |
| 17 | Guy leaned back against the hut door , dragging the cold night air into his lungs , and tried not to think of the anguish in Isabel 's white face , of the tears drowning her luminous grey eyes . |
| 18 | Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports . |
| 19 | Yet Hutchinson and Tennyson are well aware of the frustrations facing their students and seek to combat them : |
| 20 | Planners are not skiers ( unfortunately ) and they do n't seem able to read a map either because some of the lines defining their concentric rings go right through the middle of existing ski areas , particularly at Glenshee . |
| 21 | He was appointed lector at the Oxford Franciscan convent , but in 1253 a dispute arose at his presentation to incept as a doctor of theology , the opponents of the friars challenging his eligibility , as he had not been a master of arts . |
| 22 | The scale of the difficulties facing our schools goes unrecognised by too many in our society . |
| 23 | Four of the same name in a Test remains a record to this day , as does the ludicrous fact that three of the players making their debuts for their country in the match had already played Test cricket , but under different colours . |
| 24 | But the possibility of French casualties , with cloud at 3,000 feet ( 1,000m ) obscuring the docks , led to only four of the bombers dropping their loads while some 30 other Whitleys and 25 Wellingtons flew around above the clouds . |
| 25 | To require more runs the risk of the courts substituting their view for that of the authority . |
| 26 | Accordingly , he will be required to give particulars of the factors affecting his tax liability ( Phipps v Orthodox Unit Trust Ltd [ 1958 ] 1 QB 314 ) . |
| 27 | This HCO 3 - rich choleresis may partly explain the apparently beneficial effects of ursodeoxycholic acid in cholestatic liver diseases , and also its tendency to induce surface gall stone calcification , one of the factors limiting its efficacy as a cholesterol gall stone dissolving agent . |
| 28 | One of the factors limiting our understanding is that , with few exceptions , we can never have a macroscopic single crystal to study as is the case with metals or ceramics . |
| 29 | Just as we scrambled out of the ditch again , one of the woodchucks dropping his black rifle and barely managing to grab the sling as it slid back into the foul water , a straggler from the malai patrol crossed the road a hundred and fifty metres away , looked to his left and saw us . |
| 30 | Farmers left their water logged fields and towed cars out of the floods using their tractors . |