Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In about half of all cases hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is familial , the remaining cases presumably arising from sporadic mutation . |
| 2 | Percentages are based on a total of 46,652 solicitors altogether working in private practice . |
| 3 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 4 | Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history . |
| 5 | Now , you , for instance , " she said , her vague look suddenly sharpening into pinpointed attention , " you , I should think , do . |
| 6 | He raised his hands in the air in mock surrender , backing away , grey eyes suddenly dancing with genuine enjoyment . |
| 7 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 8 | 20.1 In the case of any dispute or difference arising between the parties hereto relating to this Agreement or any matter arising therefrom or incidental thereto the same may be submitted to the arbitration of a single arbitrator in accordance with the provisions of the United Kingdom Arbitration Act 1979 or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force . |
| 9 | She opened her eyes , her tired mind gradually focusing on that name . |
| 10 | ‘ What with all this , and Ken still lying in that bed — ’ She broke off and Tina intervened . |
| 11 | Now he looked savage , his eyes still glittering with deadly ferocity . |
| 12 | Their search took them to six countries , with the contract finally going to Toronto-based Lovat . |
| 13 | ‘ You wish to speak with my secretary ? ’ he enquired coldly , his tones suddenly clinking with icy hostility . |
| 14 | Question directly relating to that point though is it not true that the Eastern Arts withdrawal of the ten thousand pound grant last year was directly related to criticisms made in both in the nineteen eighty six appraisal and subsequently and repeated both to The Star recently what with was that the marketing of the playhouse was drastically inadequate . |
| 15 | What on earth , come to that , was the old fool still doing in general practice ? |
| 16 | The same , he says , applies to Windows emulation , and there are at least four companies now working on that technology , including the Apple Mac-to-Unix house Quorum Software Systems Inc and Bristol Technology Inc in Ridgefield , Connecticut . |
| 17 | The mountain looks great at this time in the early morning , with the sun now shining on one side and casting shadows and colours across the lower slopes . |
| 18 | Do you think it 's possible the Iraqis here living in this country could have some of these nerve gases that they could explode if the situation in Iraq gets very bad ? |
| 19 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 20 | The seminar , to be organised in Santiago , Chile , 4–8 October , will draw on the rich variety of communication experiences and social movements currently flourishing in Chilean society . |
| 21 | There are signs that Japan is heading for a downturn and the European Community too is in trouble , with Germany possibly heading for deep recession . |
| 22 | I suppose that in a few countries like Nazi Germany in nineteen-thirty-six the erm the nation 's amateur champions were given a special backing because of the force of nationalism erm national focus of attention on them at that date , but it , it still was , they were amateurs still meeting on equal ground . |
| 23 | It involves defects in hemidesmosomes possibly resulting from defective interaction between the integrin and its ligand . |
| 24 | ALAN DAVIES was being sincere when he expressed his sympathy for an Irish team exposed in this record home crushing as second rate . |
| 25 | A simple clash of information will be found if books published ten years ago dealing with modern technology ( computers , etc. ) are compared with those published since 1980 . |
| 26 | Basically it was about certain British officials allegedly colluding in drug-test avoidance at some meetings in the early eighties . |
| 27 | The molecules can be thought of as little billiard balls continually colliding with each other and bouncing off the walls of the box . |
| 28 | Chicago was , of course , the leading capital of organised North American crime , with rival ethnically-based groups repeatedly engaging in open warfare . |
| 29 | Insanity was , and still is , a complete defence to crime , as we saw in Chapter 6.2 above , but its confines are narrow , and some persons obviously suffering from mental disorder came to be sentenced to death for murder before 1957 . |
| 30 | These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train . |