Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | The first two , on 4 and 5 December , were ad hoc groups consisting of the Prime Minister , Heseltine , Leon Brittan , Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , John MacGregor , Chief Secretary to the Treasury , Sir Geoffrey Howe , Foreign Secretary and Sir Patrick Mayhew , Solicitor-General . |
| 3 | It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice . |
| 4 | This supply response takes a variety of forms depending on the institutional arrangements within particular labour markets , but the Lucas model postulates that there will be a diminished demand for holidays and other leisure activities and an increased demand for overtime or weekend working . |
| 5 | Paige said quickly , heart thumping at the very idea . |
| 6 | However , just before it died , there was what looked like a length of white cotton thread hanging from the anal vent . |
| 7 | Many clinicians have seized the opportunities implicit within the clinical directorate structure believing that in a cash limited system the most positive response to any threat to clinical freedom is to become involved in the discussions stemming from the financial restriction . |
| 8 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 9 | There were fish lying damply in old wooden crates , their scales gleaming with the sickly colours of an oil stain , then rows of chickens with their throats cut , feathers clinging to the legs , and the sawdust was stained with blood and flies , and she began to run , frantic to reach the air outside and breathe . |
| 10 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 11 | Israel will have to trim its army because of a £320-million deficit stemming from the Palestinian uprising , a military source said yesterday in Jerusalem . |
| 12 | Increasingly all institutions catering for the 16–19 age group will need to run a ‘ mixed economy ’ — preparing students for entry into higher education or for employment . |
| 13 | THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day . |
| 14 | Finally , after 90 minutes tumbling with the large clasts , the postcrania fragmented still further : four out of five femora remained as chipped proximal ends ( Fig. 1.9d-f,1.10C ) ; one proximal end and two shafts of tibiae ( Fig. 1.9j-1 ) ; four out of five humeri remained as two distal ends ( Fig. 1.10H ) , one proximal and one shaft ( Fig. 1.9 r , s ) ; and all four ulnae remained , one still intact and the others represented by a proximal end and two shafts ( Fig. 1.9 v , w ) . |
| 15 | The projects deriving from the first phase of the research programme cover topics like small firms , unemployment , career education in , and further education beyond , school , the agricultural sector in the economy , housing and the labour market . |
| 16 | place the services with the proposed single-tier local authorities — i.e. between 15 to 51 authorities depending on the future structure of local government . |
| 17 | She flinched as Stephen laid his hands on her naked shoulders and planted a hungry kiss on the side of her neck his fingers fumbling in the thick folds of the towel , seeking her breasts . |
| 18 | Despite all , he was able to grin , his white teeth gleaming through the shaggy beard . |
| 19 | She could see him vaguely now , white shirt gleaming in the pale moonlight . |
| 20 | Among those noting Xu 's habit of using just one board ( ingredients are so fresh and so quickly prepared that food poisoning is not considered a threat ) is Keith Mitchell , team captain of the British chefs competing at the culinary Olympics in Frankfurt next year , and head chef at the Grand Hotel , Eastbourne , East Sussex . |
| 21 | I had on the Ring of Luned that brings invisibility , and I saw the Glass Castle and the chains hanging in the Great Tower . |
| 22 | Yet terms such as ‘ resources ’ , ‘ employee , ’ or ‘ structural alteration ’ may be capable of having a spectrum of possible meanings depending upon the overall scope and policy of the legislation . |
| 23 | How stable is a system where the amounts of money whizzing around the foreign exchanges in search of a quick fix are 50 times more than the total needed to finance the whole of world trade ? |
| 24 | For example , an ex gratia payment is not automatically treated as meeting any liability stemming from the basic award . |
| 25 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 26 | The different frequencies of light are what the human eye sees as different colors , with the lowest frequencies appearing at the red end of the spectrum and the highest frequencies at the blue end . |
| 27 | The mean wave frequency was 2.36 c/min ( range 0.1–12.4 ) with the higher values occurring during the prandial periods ( Table I ) , although this did not reach statistical significance . |
| 28 | The most striking non-deglutitive motility pattrn consisted of repetitive bursts of non-sequential pressure peaks occurring in the smooth muscle of the oesophagus . |
| 29 | 11.2 undertakes , during the continuance of this Agreement , to provide directly or indirectly an efficient and effective help line to deal with fault calls relating to the Licensed Software made by end-users who have entered into the Software Licence Agreement described above . |
| 30 | The huddle of noisy stalls in the back streets were a clamour of life and colour , selling diamanté , silk ribbons , radios , clothes , dead fish sliced up on cold slabs , snakes split down the middle , innards steaming on the bloodied stone floors , live birds in cages , killed with a hammer then plucked and sold , and thousand-year-old eggs streaked black and white with gaudy orange centres . |