Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had denied the charge , but admitted another of unlawfully possessing a firearm . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not interested in just providing a child-minding service , ’ said Labour Group leader Bill Archibald . |
| 3 | If any individual or canoeing club is interested in either forming a team or joining an existing club or would just like to find out more about rafting please contact me on 0934 517756 or Patricia Hales of CHAR on 0432 820261 . |
| 4 | ‘ This again , as it seems to me , is analogous to unfairly inducing a defendant to confess to an offence , and the short judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeal is clearly based upon the maxim nemo debet prodere se ipsum . |
| 5 | ‘ Some ladies who ring up are a bit shy of actually saying the word , ’ says Rance . |
| 6 | Eight of the paratroopers were found guilty of indecently assaulting the woman soldier . |
| 7 | Both are serving long sentences after being found guilty of illegally entering the country . |
| 8 | On Nov. 19 a Perth jury found bankrupt Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond not guilty of dishonestly inducing a businessman to take part in a corporate rescue . |
| 9 | This should not reduce the usefulness of the reference , since the prime function of a citation is that of referring an interested reader to another work rather than that of publicly applauding the contribution of individual authors . |
| 10 | The second stage is that of actually finding the information in whatever sources are appropriate . |
| 11 | Point 5 includes action such as needlessly ringing a telephone in the early hours of the morning . |
| 12 | The memory task may have been made inappropriately difficult by preventing subjects from using strategies such as mentally retracing the route and scoring as correct memories only aspects of the situation which could not have been provided from previous knowledge . |
| 13 | Firefighters spent much of yesterday tackling a blaze on Strensall Common near York . |
| 14 | But not content with just looking the part , Spotted Eagle has spent thirty years studying the history and culture of the native American Indian . |
| 15 | It would imply that Labour was ill-advised in ever tabling the amendment , and in believing it to undermine the opt-out . |
| 16 | TR1 ( a field-effect device ) provides a small amount of r.f. gain and its high input impedance is ideal for directly matching the input tuned circuit . |
| 17 | Hirondelle 's owners , he said glibly , had decided to fly home and , despairing of ever selling the yacht in a glutted market , had simply abandoned it and someone had evidently used the hulk for target practice . |
| 18 | Three of these types depend on input from the organ of the same side , another responds to stimuli received by both sides , while a third type is unusual in simply measuring the repetition rate of the sound pattern . |
| 19 | Removing them should also be quick by simply depressing the sleeve of the holder in the direction of the arrow so the bit can be pulled out . |
| 20 | The argument will be harsh , and if the threat of disaster is vivid enough to bring about agreement , it may be that nations will find that , in the interest of common purpose , they are little by little surrendering the sovereignty of which Sir Ian Lloyd spoke . |
| 21 | Second , instructions to transfer data between a sequence of store locations and a sequence of accumulators , as described in 2.4 , are useful for rapidly changing the processor context . |
| 22 | ‘ We know a travel agent who came within a whisker of losing his job , all for innocently caressing a colleague 's bum while she was closing a sale on a two-week package to Alicante on the phone . ’ |
| 23 | Although government officials are confident of somehow finding a way next year to pay for the national backbone network , they are sceptical of the LDP 's ability to break through the ceiling on overall spending on science . |
| 24 | This zig-zagging technique is particularly effective in visually widening the area , since it passes between the two wings of planting that divide this second ‘ room ’ from the next . |
| 25 | Other issues to be examined will be those involved in randomly selecting a person to be interviewed within a household and problems arising in mixed surveys where non telephone owners are interviewed face-to-face . |
| 26 | I get the impression that the warden was impressed without actually liking the man . |
| 27 | ‘ I think I was dreaming , ’ she mumbled , and , all at once feeling no end foolish , she looked up , wanting to apologise or something , but mainly wanting to get back to her room with some kind of dignity . |
| 28 | ‘ Mi piacciono questi capelli , ’ cried the woman , unabashed at openly admiring the red and gold strands of Meredith 's hair . |
| 29 | Who is going to be responsible for physically dividing the space so that the sub-tenant can operate as a separate entity ? |
| 30 | The iris diaphragm is responsible for constantly varying the aperture , the f stop . |