Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street . |
| 3 | This sort of task is very common in process control situations where the operator often makes a preliminary three-way decision corresponding to the worldwide system of red , amber and green traffic lights . |
| 4 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the Templars continued meeting in secret , each coven acting like a small community , the mysteries of the Order being passed from one generation to another . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 8 | But why was the capitalist mode of production more efficient than feudal landownership , and why does this generate social and political change leading to a new power structure in society ? |
| 9 | In one other sense fear was promoted by abolitionists as a motive for demanding abolition in the national interest — fear of divine judgement falling upon the guilty nation as a whole . |
| 10 | The same is true of political projects responding to the specific problems of the public sector and state enterprises , such as those that have emerged in Britain and Spain in recent years . |
| 11 | The history of that provision and its abolition demonstrates clearly that income arising in an overseas company which is , for instance , owned by an overseas trust , is not income arising under a settlement for the purposes of TA 1988 , Part XV , Chapters III and IV or indeed any of the other provisions of Part XV . |
| 12 | There is thus a slight caveat on the point but subject to exceptional circumstances it is felt that taxpayers can now safely assume that income arising in an underlying company which is owned by the overseas trust can not be caught by Part XV of TA 1988 . |
| 13 | Madeleine Albright , 55 , currently teaching at Georgetown University , was a political scientist specializing in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . |
| 14 | The bistable multivibrator or flip-flop shown in figure 10.14(d) has two stable states corresponding to the two possible saturated output levels . |
| 15 | They are : co-ordinating the interactions of multiple types of ambiguity , co-ordinating processes that encode different sources or types of knowledge ; co-ordinating the resolution of several anaphors in one sentence ; and co-ordinating the consideration of possible referents arising from the current sentence and from elsewhere . |
| 16 | There is now an extensive literature reporting on the various life-generating experiments , backed with much speculation and theory . |
| 17 | So eleven minutes remaining plus a little bit of injury time , it 's still Spurs three , Oxford United one , United go forward , a chip forward there by Simpson . |
| 18 | So eleven minutes remaining plus a little bit of injury time , it 's still Spurs three , Oxford United one ; United go forward , a chip forward there by Simpson , there 's a chance for Martin Foyle , Martin Foyle — and he 's scored . |
| 19 | Since 1982 the government has made twenty-nine changes to the way in which the unemployed are counted , each change resulting in a downward shift in the number said to be unemployed . |
| 20 | Only stare up at the gaping hole in his cage and feel the terror of the sky beyond and look at where the broken end of the great branch that had fallen spiked out into the wild sky above as if broken part lay about him , its smaller branches and torn bark fretting on the cold wind . |
| 21 | Main picture : An outhouse was knocked down to create this spacious kitchen leading to an attractive breakfast area |
| 22 | This is the same statement which brings into play a totally different set of reactions in each case owing to the different perspectives . |
| 23 | We have to confess that Evangelicalism has sometimes , perhaps even often , expressed itself in a hard , legalistic framework leading to a dull and often joyless form of Christianity . |
| 24 | Imagine that you 're a complete beginner looking for a versatile sewing machine for dressmaking , soft furnishings and embroidery . |
| 25 | The student with an interest and a good grounding in the principles of economic theory should pursue that literature beginning with a standard public finance text ( Musgrave and Musgrave , 1980 ; Prest and Barr , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | You may be studying particular aspects of business or wanting to spend a couple of very pleasant hours learning about a new environment . |
| 27 | Macready raised his stick , cruel mouth curving like a second scar , and a foot-long blade sprang out . |
| 28 | Our repayment was to leave these happy rural innocents hankering after the tacky charms of Gameboy ( the mobile computer game ) . |
| 29 | Although Max is a jazz genius , fame always eludes him , he always loses his fee and ends each episode walking down a lonely street into the sunset , consoled by his friend Alto Ego who loudly plays a mournful tune . |
| 30 | There is no stabilized figure corresponding to the later producer or director , who does not really appear in theatre until the late nineteenth century . |