Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly local Law Societies are either undertaking training or can be persuaded to do so , and bringing down an experienced personal injury practitioner or trainer from London may not seem too horrendous an idea if the local Law Society is funding and arranging it . |
| 2 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 3 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
| 4 | She re-read his covering note again , picking up and turning over the other enclosed letter in her hands . |
| 5 | For westerners this may seem odd : in karate , you will see people in starched white uniforms fighting each other and letting out the odd blood-curdling scream . |
| 6 | Now we were rumbling and petarding up a steep brown-earth road with long , high convent walls on each side , towards a little square with a few dimly lit small shops and pollarded trees like headless ostriches perched on one knobbly leg . |
| 7 | Behind the trees the late afternoon sky was growing pale towards the horizon and taking on a pellucid apricot tint . |
| 8 | With the toe of his shoe he kicked a loose pebble on the path , sending it spinning and ricocheting over a nearby flowerbed . |
| 9 | It was reported that immediately after the close of the congress around 120 of these delegates began discussions on splitting from the Estonian CP and setting up a rival communist party in Estonia which would be subordinate to the CPSU . |
| 10 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 11 | He takes his work-ethic from his leader who , rather than stop , has been known to replace broken guitar strings while hammering out a perfect twelve-bar blues riff . |
| 12 | In Gubisch Maschinenfabrik K.G. v. Palumbo ( Case 144/86 ) [ 1987 ] E.C.R. 4861 , which Mr. Beazley relied on as laying down the broad general principles which should be applicable , and which concerned the interpretation of article 21 of the Brussels Convention , the Court of Justice stated , at p. 4874 : |