Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 2 | On the one hand , the Efta countries maintain agricultural subsidies higher even than those of the CAP ( albeit considerably more efficient ) ; Finland , which pursues a policy designed to populate its freezing borders with Russia , tops the European league table with levels of support costing its citizens $1,137 per head every year . |
| 3 | Jaq knew none by sight — unless they had been surgically altered — nevertheless he could perceive that they were true-human , no marks of Chaos blemishing their features . |
| 4 | Implicit in these views was the fact that child abuse was considered to be only one of a range of problems that many families who come under the system 's microscope were experiencing , and that there was a need to respond to all the problems including child abuse , rather than of necessity giving it priority . |
| 5 | Mr Beckenham continued to stare at her , an odd sense of unreality invading his mind . |
| 6 | Another group of conscripts had on May 14 occupied the national radio station but failed to persuade staff to broadcast their demands , and on May 16 they rampaged through the streets of Abidjan firing their weapons . |
| 7 | So erm you know I 'm glad it 's only that but I suspect when the day comes his car will but he took these erm homeopathic tranquillisers of course thinking his test was going to be a couple of weeks ago . |
| 8 | And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity . |
| 9 | This is of course having your cake and eating it , an achievement to which Kingston owed the enormous popularity of his naval as well as his other yarns . |
| 10 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
| 11 | Partly because they themselves were running running short of money er they they had a er lost a lot of lawsuits and they 'd spent a lot of money rebuilding their abbey church their priory church over at . |
| 12 | And if you have a very small amount of money , and a large number of erm demands on , on that budget , then the last thing you 're going to do , is to spend a lot of money reinforcing your house for an earthquake that may affect your grandchildren and not you . |
| 13 | I just stuff the offensive foot in a waste bin , peer short-sightedly into the darkness until my glasses fall off , squeeze the scissors and await the sickening sound of two months ' growth of calcium piercing my ear , my nostril and my bra . |
| 14 | I do n't believe that the Secretary of State has need to call it in and indeed Mr Curry has written to the local Member of Parliament saying his mind is still open but on the information he had in October he does not think that these that this application raises issues of more than local importance . |
| 15 | The diversity and volume of silver bearing his mark is far greater than can have emerged from a single workshop and it has been generally acknowledged , after a century dominated by the concept of the maker 's mark , that De Lamerie , in common with many other goldsmiths registering marks at Goldsmiths ' Hall , not only fulfilled orders with other goldsmiths ' wares but also subcontracted orders to a range of London workshops , although striking the finished wares with his own punch . |
| 16 | Fran swallowed hard , feeling the bitter taste of fear burning her throat as she stared into the man 's cold , flat eyes , wishing she could find her voice to tell him what he could do with his threats . |
| 17 | Among those who glibly encouraged the notion was J B Priestley , who wrote of football turning its fans into ‘ a new community , all brothers together for an hour and a half … an altogether more splendid kind of life ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a way of future proofing our investment in the existing technology . ’ |
| 19 | I see Tunze systems where the Biogranules have not been changed for years , and even undergravel filters with less than one inch of gravel covering their surface . |
| 20 | There is very little likelihood of confusion arising whichever spelling is used in English documents , though there will be far-reaching consequences , for example in text-books , abstracts , indices , dictionaries , computer programs , and teaching , but it is difficult to see any compensating advantages in adopting the US version . |
| 21 | The waiter bowed his head slightly lower , a smile of pleasure splitting his face . |
| 22 | They are trembling and hiding , ’ he said , the slimy lick of pleasure overlaying his voice . |
| 23 | On the other hand , lifting a genuine wineglass a few feet in the air by sheer mental energy required several hours of systematic preparation if the wizard wished to prevent the simple principle of leverage flicking his brain out through his ears . |
| 24 | It was like a man convicted of forgery paying his fine with a dud £50 note . |
| 25 | Despite early enthusiasm and optimism for the UK White Paper on the Environment , it was greeted with a widespread sense of disappointment following its launch by Environment Secretary Christopher Patten on September 25 . |
| 26 | There was a layer of insulation covering his skull ; it looked like cotton wool beneath his crown of star-beads and wire . |
| 27 | His words made Tallis look sadly towards the mortuary house , a last shiver of loss making her huddle into her furs . |
| 28 | His book My Water Cure describes the findings of a lifetime of practice directing his patients to the healing and restoring powers of water . |
| 29 | God might have annexed colour sensations to the kind of light reaching our eyes in ; quite different way from that which he has done , so that the very same things ( in their real nature ) which are red to us might have been blue , and vice versa , or we might have experienced , quite different range of colours in the same physical situations . |
| 30 | Struwwelpeter hair streaming behind him , he took exhibitions at the run , a manic smile of glee overtaking his features when he spotted a wrong attribution . |