Example sentences of "an [adj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel liked to accompany his asides about Jewish meanness with an exaggerated shrugging of shoulders and palms open to the heavens . |
| 2 | He was n't hurt and he did n't let go of Caspar but he howled , an awful wailing with his mouth open . |
| 3 | The partnership is not really working , although of course erm what happened on Saturday was that after an awful pasting during the week verbally from Mick their manager , and indeed having both been brought off very controversially at Molyneux last Tuesday evening , both substituted in the closing stages when Notts were losing and both strikers we er were brought off , you could n't get much more controversial tha that by a manager could you ? |
| 4 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 5 | We have an old saying over here : ‘ Things can be critical , but they are never serious ’ . |
| 6 | It was , incidentally , a journey of about 20 miles , and it is an interesting reflection on the times that no one saw any danger in an 11-year-old embarking on such a trip alone . |
| 7 | They pass judgment on an accused taking into account the gravity of the crime and the circumstances of the accused . |
| 8 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |
| 9 | The State is allowed to continue subsidising unprofitable farming and forestry , because that keeps old pals and supporters happy ; but too many conservationists have an unfortunate leaning towards the radical . |
| 10 | the phrases concerning self-determination and the entire nationalist movement , which at present constitute the greatest danger for international socialism , have experienced an extraordinary strengthening from the Russian revolution . |
| 11 | Mr Crump was , in fact , an extremely able , shrewd , exploitative and successful businessman and lawyer whose weaknesses were an over-fondness for his wife and an utter doting on their daughter . |
| 12 | An endless falling through time and space , and ecstasy so intense that she thought she would die . |
| 13 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 14 | Butterfly Cooing Like a Dove ( Doubleday , £25 ) by Miriam Rothschild is a unique and uncategorisable delight , an autobiographical musing on the extraordinary appeal of these two winged creatures . |
| 15 | Apparent areas of convergence , such as an ostensible focusing on the ‘ welfare of the child ’ , should not be allowed to disguise what are regarded as real differences stemming from different psychological and political assumptions underlying the two positions . |
| 16 | If that contact is broken , the words and events become a sort of empty recitation , an alienated recounting of something that can not proclaim its real significance . |
| 17 | Your first efforts at hearing , transcribing and producing the sounds of a new language are bound to be subjective an biased according to the languages you have previously had experience with . |
| 18 | Eighty-eight codices of extraordinary quality are on show until 10 January , ranging from a sixth-century codex purpureus to an Antiphonal belonging to the Medici pope Clement VII . |
| 19 | He took a torch from the iron bracket , picked up an arbalest leaning against the wall , as well as a stout leather quiver filled with vicious barbed quarrels . |
| 20 | Many modern composers have avoided repetition , allowing the words to take the whole burden of form , carrying the music forward in an interminable wandering from one emotive crisis to another . |
| 21 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 22 | The court heard that the man behind the fraud was an American going by the name of Hector Portillo . |
| 23 | An American giving to a non-profit-making organisation can deduct such donations from taxable income . |
| 24 | The librarian has been teaching information skills for many and has found that local viewdata is an excellent coordinating for a whole range of useful skills . |
| 25 | Only the longing for meat ( some commentators have called it a lust , but the Hebrew does not pass that judgement ) , the claim that their appetite is gone , or their throats are dry , or , as the RSV has it , their strength is dried up ( the Hebrew will sustain all those translations ) , and an unspecified complaining about their misfortunes . |
| 26 | Sick , an academic specializing in Iran , had been on the staff of Carter 's National Security Council at the time of the hostage crisis . |