Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 2 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 3 | Short-term contract working in manufacturing differed from short-term contract or seasonal working in the three service sectors described above and , indeed , from the other forms of temporary working we have examined in this study , ion that many of the temporary workers concerned were " involuntary " temporary workers . |
| 4 | The hydrogen nucleus consists of a single proton ; helium contains two protons and one or two neutrons , these two ‘ isotopes ’ being known as helium-3 and helium-4 ( written 3 He , 4 He — He being the chemical symbol for helium and the 3 or 4 referring to the total number of constituents within the nucleus ) . |
| 5 | The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months . |
| 6 | They 're hoping retired people , or those looking for a second home in the country will stump up the cash . |
| 7 | Our great editor was moved , as a result , to insert a sentence or two commenting on the major changes at this level in my particular group . |
| 8 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 9 | Full-time occasional students ( other than those participating in an Inter-university Co-operation Programme under the EC ERASMUS scheme ) are required to pay the same annual fees as full-time students . |
| 10 | The agencies dealing with business and corporate elites tend to employ a more co-operative mode than those dealing with the poor . |
| 11 | Unless your oven temperature is very even , it 's a good idea to swap the trays around ; the brandy snaps nearer the heat will spread better and become more lacy than those cooking at a lower temperature . |
| 12 | Insofar as advantages are claimed for genericism , they are based on wider issues than those arising from the specific client group . |
| 13 | Several previous generations of editors presented a picture of Shakespeare 's evolving genius based on complete plays jumping out of his head in a pattern of development that made those appearing in the seventeenth century ‘ more mature ’ than those appearing in the sixteenth . |
| 14 | Legitimate drug rackets are after all not only lucrative — there 's gold in them there pills ( Klass 1975 ) — but they also provide the occasion for seeing oneself — if you are involved in them — as sharper , shrewder , and more powerful than those ending up the wrong side of the law . |
| 15 | Once a normal pattern has been established , it is easier to say more about sites with abnormal patterns than those conforming to the normal one . |
| 16 | People with schizophrenia who are discharged from hospital to live with relatives who are over-critical , disapproving or who express a high level of anxiety and tension , are more likely to suffer early relapse than those returning to a neutral or tolerant atmosphere , and spending less time in daily contact with other members of the family , possibly by attending a day centre or going to work , seems to help some sufferers to cope with an emotionally charged home environment . |
| 17 | This information is broadly of two kinds — that relating to the education authority 's policy and arrangements , and that relating to the individual school . |
| 18 | Laboute 's Fairy Wrasse is one of the most strikingly marked species of the genus , with a handsome lined body and metallic spotting of the dorsal , caudal and anal fins . |
| 19 | What a week : Batts and Fat-Frank going in the same week , what the fuck is going on — i guess they need the cash to buy someone — guess we will know who in a couple of weeks … the newly in shape Maradona ? |
| 20 | Within the Lateran palace itself , a further ceremony with two seats of porphyry ( one of St Peter and one of St Paul ) signified the double apostolic foundation and the jurisdictional and magisterial power of the pope , demonstrated by his half lying and half sitting across the two . |
| 21 | You can be sure that some will be heard loud and clear complaining about the long Christmas holidays being taken by other people . |
| 22 | New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise . |
| 23 | I 'm talking about the the overshoot , and my comments about greenfield sites were related to period eighty one to ninety two , and it became quite clear during the eighties that the sketch plan green belt or development was at that time , through the eighties , was by and large abutting onto the urban area , that er through the eighties what everybody understood to the sketch plan green belt was tight up against er the urban area , so in resisting urban greenfield sites erm on the urban edge through the eighties the County Council were recognizing the greenbelt constraints . |
| 24 | For instrument approaches airfield QNH is to be used until approaching the Final Approach Fix or Final Approach Point , as appropriate , when QFE is to be set at the Initial Point and all flying in the visual circuit is to be conducted on QFE . |
| 25 | The redness flowered into a sort of technicoloured aurora borealis , beams of magenta and pink fanning across the brightening sky until everything was transfigured by a brilliant crescent above an eastern dune . |
| 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 | In the past , proposals for major change — such as those emerging from the Lord Chancellor 's Department 's review of the financial conditions for legal aid , and those arising from the Legal Aid Scrutiny — were published in a consultation document so that all concerned had a full opportunity to comment before final decisions were taken . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Research people at Coventry providing a corporate service will be those concerned with wider or longer term projects , in fibres and performance materials , and those working at a strategic level . |
| 30 | It is useful to return to the earlier typology of hazards ( Fig. 10.1 ) and to stress the links that might be made between those working on natural hazards and those working in the socio-economic domains . |