Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Rachel 's face glistened in the gloom as she urged herself to her climax — sweat and staring eyes , tongue darting between dry lips , breath panting .
2 Passenger demand forecasting for new rail services
3 Gregarious , flocks often hawking for flying insects and spiralling up to perform aerobatics .
4 The 17th annual conference of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions , held in London in October , endorsed the use of international standards on auditing for cross-border offerings and continuous reporting by foreign issuers .
5 Turn it into a utopian commune where women , gazing through mullioned windows at the lake , weave medieval tapestries . ’
6 So often in conditions races we see just a handful of runners competing for good prizemoney , a situation which has prompted a reduction in Pattern races from 139 to 101 in the 1990-91 season .
7 Although I came third out of fifty folk competing for established status by examination , it was no good , only one candidate was accepted .
8 The drawing of lines between right and wrong [ or duty and obligation ] is being overshadowed by the need for cooperative adjustment and common improvement among States competing for limited resources .
9 In nature , many animals are competing for limited resources .
10 An additional problem is that Soviet organisations are automatically barred from competing for infra-structural projects sponsored by the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank , which require bidders to be members of these institutions .
11 Agency workers are also paid by the hour , but the larger agencies , competing for scarce labour , have increasingly started to offer fringe benefits such as sickness and holiday pay [ see Chapter 5 ] .
12 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 .
13 Now that the national museums no longer have their purchase grants awarded separately from grant in aid for running costs , they fear that those will be further whittled away and they will be even less capable of competing for major masterpieces .
14 We may think of them as competing for various tenures .
15 There were cars in the streets and brash , noisy journalists crowded round hotel bars competing for sensational stories to wire to their papers .
16 The views of his Ministerial colleagues , not least the Prime Minister , will be of particular relevance whenever a subject overruns departmental boundaries and the Home Office is competing for Parliamentary time .
17 After the laying of a few ‘ experimental ’ courses with due consideration for commercial shipping , wind direction and a fleet of local Finn sailors competing for Olympic squad selection , racing , finally , got under way .
18 Higher education is also expected to rely more heavily on private sources of finance with polytechnics and universities competing for commercial , foundation and research council contracts and building up relationships with industry through consultancy and science parks .
19 ‘ If we abandon nuclear power , we abandon them to competing for declining energy sources at a price they will clearly not be able to afford . ’
20 There is no shortage of males in the flocks during pair formation , so hens are probably competing for high quality males .
21 I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’
22 He and Gros pulled every string , while canvassing for suitable volunteers from the Foreign Legion and the Field Service .
23 His defeat is as certain as Mr Melding 's , although his campaign has been a good deal less rough : canvassing for Labour in a prosperous south coast resort may be discouraging , but it is scarcely dangerous , unless you count the speechless stick-waving of elderly gentlefolk as assault .
24 They completed nearly 16,000 newly-built dwellings in the year to September 1991 , and together with acquisition and renovation of houses for letting , building for shared ownership sale , and other activities , the total output of housing associations was almost 22,000 units in 1990-91 , compared with only 16,000 in 1979 .
25 Because of the slimness of their bodies it means a shoal of bream , particularly when resting between feeding times , can pack quite tightly together and become a much smaller target than they would present if rotundly shaped .
26 I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of .
27 ‘ I 'm zapping through old classics from de Sade and Fanny Hill right through to William Burroughs and Henry Miller — all the dirty books one has heard of but never read .
28 I spent an exhilarating day cruising the River Ord , speeding through spectacular scenery in a high-powered boat .
29 Over copious beverages at a plush hotel in Notting Hill Gate , the stooping Lord of scabrous spleen-rock is speeding through scurrilous anecdotes about conspiracies within the monarchy , parties celebrating Freddie Mercury 's demise , sociopathic ex-Fall associates and much more .
30 This paper has shown the feasibility of using echo planar magnetic resonance imaging for prolonged imaging of upper gastrointestinal motility .
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