Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] all the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was soon overpowered with either sleep or cold , when his faithful defendant , who had closely attended to every step , scratched away the snow so as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master ; then mounting upon the exposed body , rolled himself round and lay upon his master 's bosom , for which his shaggy coat proved a most seasonable covering and eventual protection during the dreadful severity of the night , the snow falling all the time . |
| 2 | A few blades of grass clung to the otherwise barren slope , the gale tugging all the while at their roots . |
| 3 | The role of the teacher is changing , with less emphasis on the teacher providing all the material for the student , but increased emphasis on providing a stimulating environment for active learning to take place . |
| 4 | Now this means that this part of the globe the bit nearest to the moon will have more than it 's fair share of gravity because it 's got the gravity of the earth and it 's got the gravity of the moon pulling all the sea which will cause the erm sea to bulge up in this region . |
| 5 | The outlay would be well worth while in terms of the publicity featuring all the hotel 's celebrity guests . |
| 6 | She shepherded him towards the Captain talking all the time . |
| 7 | Adverbs and adjectives contain similar problems : they both prevent the verb or the noun doing all the work it is capable of and rob a phrase of its necessary precision . |
| 8 | ‘ Why 's the woman doing all the talking ? ’ |
| 9 | Instead of the state swallowing all the income , he suggests it should go to more efficient motorists . |
| 10 | The specification causing all the fuss will enable independent software vendors to write applications that can be installed and run from Unix desktops rather than the shell . |
| 11 | Agents at Kamrok are now busy canvassing outlets throughout the country using all the wit and crudity to push card sales even higher . |
| 12 | I tend to play with the wah on the treble setting all the time which gives you an incredibly trebly sound and it 's really hard to make that sound good because it distorts and feeds back all the time . |
| 13 | I came across from Oban — made a run for it , with the weather worsening all the time , but got here safely and made straight for our bay . |
| 14 | That argues that you ca n't make the weather interesting all the time . |
| 15 | And the problem is exacerbated with the level of competition on the market increasing all the time — many hardware vendors , for example , are trying to boost dwindling profits by moving into this arena — many observers question whether IBM Corp can actually make money from facilities management . |
| 16 | His response was the great ode , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , a masterpiece reflecting all the thinking he had done about poetry , pain , and redemption during his years of silence . |
| 17 | And suddenly I caught sight of this … prat sailing down the Cam back towards Cambridge in a punt , with a girl doing all the work , while he reclined at the exact angle , trying to play a chord and strum a tune … |
| 18 | A disk containing all the example listings used in the book is available at £25.50 + VAT . |
| 19 | We were weary and did n't spare a thought for how she must be feeling — sick in the mornings , with a husband flying all the time . |
| 20 | Include a Lexicon listing all the vocabulary items introduced in the volume , indicating the lesson in which each was first used . |
| 21 | IT IS no use putting all the blame on young drivers for the high number of accidents . |
| 22 | A happy home situation does not depend upon there being a housewife in residence twenty-four hours a day , nor on a woman doing all the housework herself . |
| 23 | Beyond it , the ditch and trees curved back again in a re-entrant , so that the field formed a bay with a bank running all the way round . |
| 24 | er of , of collective labour to build roads etcetera , which is gon na be a feature going all the way through , is , is there really quite this |
| 25 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 26 | Published in the year in which the ROC stood down , The Royal Observer Corps in Lincolnshire 1936–1991 by Charles Parker , is a short but highly informative description of the Corps in Lincolnshire , from its formative years to its ultimate disbanding in 1991 , with an appendix listing all the ROC posts in the county . |