Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plant of noble proportions producing numerous stems each consisting of a large shiny green leaf and a leafy bract from which a spike of soft blue flowers emerges . |
| 2 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 3 | This implies splitting up the data for each time period ( each day , say ) , into that relating to the individual outstanding futures contracts . |
| 4 | Instead , properties would be placed in one of eight broad bands each relating to a national average value . |
| 5 | Now if we look forward through time we see regular bands like this occurring through the mid sixteen hundred to sixteen forty , on up into sixteen sixty sixteen eighty still broad regular bands , conditions very conducive to coral growth , and in the early seventeen hundreds on up into the mid seventeen hundreds one can see a remarkable change in the character of the growth bands . |
| 6 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 7 | Interiors are light owing to the large clerestory and aisle windows . |
| 8 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 9 | In countries like Colombia and Venezuela , there has been some tinkering with the traditional agrarian system , but on the other hand , Cuba has experienced a complete restructuring of the agrarian sector . |
| 10 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 11 | Infant mortality rates are rising rapidly , reaching 17.9 per 1,000 births in 1991 according to the Russian statistical classification , although the report states that if international standards were applied the figure could be three times this level . |
| 12 | There 's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we 've put our best designers to work on our range . |
| 13 | Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million . |
| 14 | Essentially , however , a muscle is composed of a number of long fibres , each measuring from a few hundred µm in diameter . |
| 15 | In 1870 the ninety serving in the French foreign ministry , for example , were dwarfed by the 1,500 employed in the ministry of finance , the largest of all French central government departments . |
| 16 | Within the ancient royal estates ( and later hundreds ) of Cannington and North Petherton , a large holding had been assembled by 1066 belonging to the Saxon Alfwy . |
| 17 | The French government had on Oct. 30 issued warrants for the arrest of four Libyan officials in connection with the destruction near the Chad-Niger border in 1989 of a DC-10 belonging to a private French airline [ see p. 36910 ] . |
| 18 | He may be able to command as large an audience as anyone , yet he remains one of the least showy of performers , preserving a musical integrity and discrimination that deserved a better conductor than Elio Boncompagni , and certainly one who might have persuaded more sophisticated playing from a dispirited Royal Philharmonic . |
| 19 | From the first cravenly petit-bourgeois Embassy all those years ago , to the predictable monogrammed-slippers appeal of Balkan Sobranie , via the posturings of menthol and the hideous austerity of low-tar , through the Rive Gauche authenticity of fat-thumbed hand-rolling ( with or without aromatic additions ) and its brusque mechanical equivalent ( those Stakhanovite mangles , that floppy deck-chair of rubber I could never quite subdue ) , all leading to the current confident plateau , the équilibré intake of Gauloise and Winston , alloyed occasionally by the fierce kick-start of a little Swedish number named after hoi polloi 's Alsatian , Prince . |
| 20 | The problem is that a good gimmick is contagious — everyone in Hollywood gets it all at once , and then you get a rash of movies all suffering from the same big idea . |
| 21 | Pickups are two EX humbuckers and a single coil , all running through the customary five-position switch with single volume and tone controls . |
| 22 | Alan Irwin captains the side and he will have Robert Glenn , Brian Faith , Taff Watson and George Neilly all fighting for the other two berths in the back row . |
| 23 | The effect of the war can be seen under five heads , all following from the actual European conflict : the running of the war effort ; the advance of Labour ; the advent of democracy in 1918 ; the effect of war on the party structure and organization ; and the effect of war on popular attitudes . |
| 24 | Although all separate entities , they do co-operate with each other as , naturally , they are all working towards the same ideal . |
| 25 | This means that when they watch another group 's work they are affected by what they do , they 're all working within the same fictional context . |
| 26 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 27 | The aim of our study is to identify among subjects treated using the same endoscopic protocol — that is , urgent sclerotherapy , those dying within the first six weeks of their first variceal haemorrhage . |
| 28 | Furthermore , against the difficulties of selecting for new materials can be added those relating to a vast retrospective choice . |
| 29 | The problems with such an approach can be divided broadly into two : those relating to the nature of RB provision per se ; and those relating to the underlying educational perspectives of the liberal tradition itself . |
| 30 | Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target . |