Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was strong support for maturity having a negative effect on volume , that is , volume rises as delivery approaches . |
| 2 | CALLS for action following a serious accident may mean the introduction of speed restrictions on a County Durham road . |
| 3 | ROYAL Mail staff from Essex hope to deliver a £3,000 cash boost for charity following a sponsored abseiling session yesterday . |
| 4 | GUIDELINES FOR GROUP DOING THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM |
| 5 | This general type of bias may be due to a selective memory search for information favouring a positive personal outcome . |
| 6 | Bernie 's nose section has seen much publicity in the past , and has recently ‘ starred ’ in a well-known TV advert for lager featuring a new interpretation of the Dam Busters raid ! |
| 7 | THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries . |
| 8 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 9 | Styles changed to suit the visitors ' demands , and with volume and speed of production becoming the prime considerations , standards of craftsmanship steadily declined . |
| 10 | He had not noticed any skin rash and was surprised to be told that his symptom was a direct result of syphilis affecting the auditory nerve . |
| 11 | The gallery has built up a well-balanced programme of work offering an annual arrangement of exhibitions clearly influenced by a strong equal opportunities policy . |
| 12 | CIS Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 12 to agree an agenda for a Heads of Government meeting the following day . |
| 13 | It 's another piece of evidence suggesting a long term buildup towards a serious mercury crisis . |
| 14 | Pickin was a railway enthusiast who , in 1969 , purchased from the owner of a piece of land adjoining a disused railway line , all his estate and interest in the railway land and track . |
| 15 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 16 | After frustrating years in which they had covered acres of print discussing the sociological theory and implications of newspaper readership , they wanted to compete in the more popular market . |
| 17 | Furthermore , there is no general rule of law preventing a former employee canvassing or doing business with customers of his former employer . |
| 18 | The effect of parallel transporting a local vector round a closed path on a cylinder is shown in Fig. 3.9 . |
| 19 | Society chairman Malcolm Smith said his members would now want to see a written reply from the Department of Health confirming the proposed arrangements would not be introduced . |
| 20 | That 's a tough , brutal sport traditionally played in England and Scotland by the sons of the wealthy who invented it — so talk of hunger breeding the best fighters is garbage . ’ |
| 21 | The shape of the island , he told her , was a rough figure-of-eight , with a narrow neck of land joining the two halves of landmass . |
| 22 | For Augustine mystical knowledge of God is the essence of Christianity involving a lifelong process of growth in the recognition of the reality of the Incarnation , enabled through the grace of God working in man 's powers of will , memory and understanding . |
| 23 | All this , often broadcast by the media too , has had a detrimental effect on religion causing the age-old cry of the heart , " If there is a God why all this suffering ? " to be raised with ever-greater seriousness and urgency . |
| 24 | His critical eye revels in the play and contrast of light on form composing the stark minimal images that have all but become his trade mark . |
| 25 | Julie stood on the sea wall and moved her head from side to side allowing the fresh wind from the estuary to blow through her hair . |
| 26 | Find every instance of paint using the two default conditions stated above . |
| 27 | The refusal , the third in as many years , is a symbolic trial of strength indicating the political balance of power within the WHO . |
| 28 | Had some bold prophet told the King that he was one day to preside over a change of Government wearing a Chinese dressing-gown , he would scarcely have believed his ears . |
| 29 | For all the concern over the level of public spending the British share as a proportion of GDP in 1979 was only at the mid-point of most western states . |
| 30 | He believed she was to blame for the tide of scandal enveloping the Royal Family . |