Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , by birth and by upbringing , he offers in his own person a connection between the Czechoslovakia now beginning to resume its history after 20 years in the deep freeze and both the pre-war Republic and the experiment in state socialism that followed liberation from the Nazis . |
| 2 | The craftsmen , however , were more evenly divided , even at the high point of Tory fortunes in the City , with the majority still favouring the Whigs . |
| 3 | So how 's the guitar actually wearing ? |
| 4 | He said that this could lead to ‘ a non-statutory monopoly ’ and trigger a free-for-all among farmers with the housewife eventually footing the bill . |
| 5 | The sergeant from the scene of crime squad pushed past him , and advanced on Catherine Crane , holding out a pair of battered wellingtons with the air of the prince hopefully extending a glass slipper . |
| 6 | ‘ An' you watch fo' dat Gilda woman , boy , ’ the old man warned , referring to the hurricane now hitting the southern end of the Caribbean . |
| 7 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 8 | Ore was also carted down from a hopper at Top Level , the track crossing the beck directly below the waterfall then winding around to connect with the Levers Water — Paddy End track . |
| 9 | I was disgusted to see the picture on page one of The Scotsman today showing Bill Clifford , the manager of the weapons testing range at Dundrennan , Kirkcudbrightshire proudly holding the new electro-magnetic railgun . |
| 10 | Time stood still in the attic room while they exchanged the most innocent of kisses and embraces , and McAllister faced her future , the bruises slowly disappearing from her wounded spirit under the healing power of true love . |
| 11 | Is the writer seriously suggesting that changing from a system where fees are paid in full by the state to a system where they are paid wholly or partly by the student is likely to be encouraging ? |
| 12 | You stop at the top of the road and look back , to see the flames just starting to become visible over the edge of the hotel roof , dancing orange into the night . |
| 13 | It has been an almost Darwinian process , of course , with those failing to shrug off the stereotype simply going out of business and removing themselves from the genetic pool . |
| 14 | Here the new road over to Glen Garry , continuing the A.87 classification , turns to the right , the signpost still urging a visit to Fort William . |
| 15 | Distridct judge-arbitrators usually give their reasons orally , the award merely stating the result . |
| 16 | As the name implies you walk towards the back of the board thereby sinking the tail . |
| 17 | It is agreed that the text of the Memorandum will be finalised by a committee of the Board probably consisting of [ specify names ] . |
| 18 | Its arm fell off , clattering to the deck with the Perk still clinging to it . |
| 19 | Outside , the day was already well advanced and sunlight glimmered on the waters of the canal below , the towpath already thronging with people . |
| 20 | ‘ I just do n't want you to touch me , ’ Maria asserted rather desperately , disconcerted by the huskiness suddenly invading her voice . |
| 21 | We run a mother and toddler in the morning on a Thursday I 'm not coming to another in the afternoon there picking things up |
| 22 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 23 | He rolled the disc over segments of the city , the cross-hairs neatly quartering his domain . |
| 24 | Probably the paper did n't even have wire service , and if it did , he 'd bet a dime that anything which had come in about the book 's author had simply been buried in the chaos then reigning in the newspaper office . |
| 25 | This may have been true of strict Evangelicals , particularly the Calvinists , the dissenting groups such as the Plymouth Brethren , but in the population of the cities where churchgoing had fallen steeply , fire and brimstone were losing their power to terrify . |
| 26 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 27 | A lead of sorts has been given by the national archives of north America with the Center for Electronic Records of the National Archives of the United States having already archived in access of 10,000 records or wearying size and complexity , and with the Canadians also pursuing an active of storing governmental records in machine-readable form ( National Archive 1991 ; National Historical Publications 1991 ) . |
| 28 | Each successive generation from the reign of Edward I. onwards has laboured to produce that complete political unity which is represented by the absolute sovereignty of the Parliament now sitting at Westminster . |
| 29 | By the early 1970s , well over a hundred such projects had been completed or were in progress : the largest single number in the sciences , but with mathematics , English , and the humanities also scoring high . |
| 30 | The last thing I did was to fire the blazing stream of petrol at the buck still sitting stuffed and dead and oozing blood in the forefront of the Grounds . |