Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a historical accident that the sports in which blacks were overrepresented compared to their proportion in the general population were those demanding little in the way of equipment or facilities . |
| 2 | Scudamore interprets present-day embalming as ‘ a treatment consisting fundamentally of the injection of some suitable disinfecting preservative into the vascular system , augmented by the relieving of the blood from the superficial vein , and such cavity , cosmetic , and derma-surgery treatment necessary to achieve a pre-mortem appearance , aseptic condition and preservation ’ . |
| 3 | The type of frame you choose for your finished work is an entirely personal decision , based on your own likes and dislikes , but I would strongly suggest that you think about the type of frame you will be using right from the start of your work . |
| 4 | Because advertising revenue is now critical , a paper or TV channel catering successfully for the views of the poor or the unemployed would soon go bankrupt , whereas those meeting the minority tastes of the wealthy remain financially sound . |
| 5 | UNCITRAL likewise engages in widespread consultation , drawing widely on the expertise of practising specialists . |
| 6 | Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side . |
| 7 | Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left . |
| 8 | Like Jesus , they were , after all , devout Jews , working and preaching wholly within the context of established Judaic tradition . |
| 9 | Cornucopia : rabbits , hunched and private , loping slowly about the lawn in the moonlight ; a green frog , gleaming and sparkling in the dewy sunlit grass as it wiggled along some compelling migratory path ; squirrels — quick flashes of ginger and grey in the treetops , a sudden glimpse of bright beady eyes ; a mythical fox — dusky shadow and sinister snowprints . |
| 10 | Other behavioural strategies included eating slowly in a room away from the kitchen , preparing all food thoroughly before starting to eat , rather than eating standing up during cooking . |
| 11 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 12 | Well you probably lose a bit , it 's not sticking properly to the wall . |
| 13 | He stood by the fireplace , gazing despairingly at the mouthpiece of the telephone . |
| 14 | He ran aside , firing upward on the run . |
| 15 | These strips would allow mowing right to the edge of the lawn and would also allow the edge to be trimmed with edging shears . |
| 16 | Now , drawing vigorously with the back end of the brush I picked out the light sides of the foreground waves . |
| 17 | The first army , consisting mostly of the Kislevites and fast-moving mounted troops , marched with all speed to Praag in the hope of relieving the siege . |
| 18 | I taught the others , hanging discreetly round the table to advise the tyros . |
| 19 | But now other countries , particularly Korea and Japan , are competing successfully with the result that Britain and Clydeside have fewer orders . |
| 20 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 22 | Lenin clearly accepted the need for administration and administrators , but by a democratically controlled set of routine offices rotating widely among the population rather than by a ‘ special stratum of the population ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Mrs Wormwood is n't going to thank you for this , ’ the man said as he led her into the sitting-room where a large platinum-blonde woman was gazing rapturously at the TV screen . |
| 24 | ‘ Mach helped me , ’ he said , watching her closely now , his hand resting loosely on the gun in his pocket . |
| 25 | Her arm tightened around him , her other hand resting loosely on the shoulders of another singer . |
| 26 | Recorded music has now become a separate expressive form , thanks to a range of studio technologies deriving fundamentally from the ability to edit and amalgamate sounds , made possible by the use of magnetic tape . |
| 27 | Chairman John Gunn described the rumours as ‘ malicious , gratuitous and unnecessary , reflecting badly on the market ’ . |
| 28 | Claudia obediently washed Dana 's thick hair as she sat in the bath , sniffing appreciatively at the perfume that floated round her twin . |
| 29 | Presently Miriam entered the room and found him , half dressed , sitting on his bed with his head resting wearily against the pillows . |
| 30 | On March 22 the former President and three others were charged with profiting personally from the purchase of aircraft by the government in 1989 . |