Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For institutions offering a substantial programme of advanced work , it would be possible to submit estimates of expenditure through the local authorities for a programme of work three to five years ahead . |
| 2 | Several squads or whole companies of the Chapter would quest for lost worlds and for planets posing a potential menace to the Imperium , as well as for any alien redoubts within imperial spheres of influence , so as to sterilise those . |
| 3 | The aim of the survey was not to produce a set of quantified results from a pre-set questionnaire but , rather , to isolate key management issues which would prove instructive for schools establishing a formula-based scheme or modifying one and in particular in establishing a formula-based system at Alsager Comprehensive School ( the case study school ) . |
| 4 | To ensure proportionality and representation even for parties polling a small fraction of the vote across the country , a first count was made on a country-wide basis according to the so-called Hare-Niemeyer system ; afterwards a second constituency-by-constituency count was made . |
| 5 | If P is taken as the vapour pressure of a solution whose pure solvent vapour pressure is P o , then for solutions containing an involatile solute which gives |
| 6 | It is now incumbent on everybody looking after patients following a myocardial infarct to try to reason out what caused the condition and to try to do something about stopping it . |
| 7 | Sedimentation rates for intervals containing a high proportion of laminated sediment are commonly around 10cm per thousand years ( cmkyr -1 ) ( ref. 5 ) . |
| 8 | • For burns affecting a larger area , either put your child in a cold bath or cover the burn with a wet sheet or towel . |
| 9 | If the US could be persuaded to take a similar line , many of the problems for companies contemplating an international issue would disappear . |
| 10 | Inside , the entrance hall was designed like a grand salon of a Renaissance palace , highly decorated , with Corinthian pilasters rising to a series of cornices surrounding a painted ceiling . |
| 11 | There are many modern examples of artists taking a nonchalent attitude to their own work . |
| 12 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 13 | Three quarters of the way round the circuit I was surprised to find a small Party of Germans erecting a barbed wire barricade across the path . |
| 14 | Managers are naturally biased towards projects showing a quick return , if they feel there is unlikely to be ex post settling up over the longer term . |
| 15 | In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances . |
| 16 | The landscapes of the earth were thus ‘ peopled ’ with an interdependent range of forms comprising a natural system , itself dependent upon the grass and vegetation provided by soil , rain , and sun . |
| 17 | Over a number of sessions the proportion of subjects showing a right-ear preference for verbal stimuli tends to increase due to the greater probability of change among subjects showing an initial left ear advantage ( Blumstein , Goodglass and Tartter , 1975 ; Shankweiler and Studdert-Kennedy , 1975 ) . |
| 18 | Some authors have reported finding a greater proportion of subjects showing a left ear advantage among strongly , compared with weakly , sinistral subjects ( Satz , Achenbach and Fennell , 1967 ; Lishman and McMeekan , 1977 ; Geffen and Traub , 1979 ) although Dee ( 1971 ) reported the reverse . |
| 19 | Since bilateral speech need not imply that speech functions are distributed equally between the hemispheres this does not necessarily conflict with the finding that the proportion of subjects showing a left ear advantage was highest among the strongly left handed . |
| 20 | A group of words containing a finite verb and functioning as a noun does . |
| 21 | You can apply it to language learning by getting it to produce selected and sorted check lists or lists of words containing a particular sound/symbol you wish to drill . |
| 22 | The filtering process also produces lists of words bearing a certain feature , but only those words of which all the senses have the feature . |
| 23 | It 's not that it 's patronising in any way — it is n't — it 's just that there are lots of words describing a simple process . |
| 24 | There was a voice — accusatory , though unclear — a jumble of words inducing a strong feeling of guilt . |
| 25 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |
| 26 | The indicators of success in a compliance system , however , are vague because compliance itself is a vague and open-ended concept ( ch. 6 ) , and the enforcement agent has to fulfil a variety of roles demanding a wide range of skills and knowledge . |
| 27 | Figure 1 a and b depicts , from behind , a pair of eyes viewing a rectangular pattern lying in a fronto-parallel plane which is either close to the observer ( a ) or far away ( b ) . |
| 28 | Each presentation may be a chart demonstrating relationships , a picture to stimulate discussion , or a series of sequences demonstrating a manipulative skill , procedure or physiological process . |
| 29 | Classes are crowded , with 40 per cent of schools having a teacher-pupil ratio of 45:1 or higher , and many schools have multi-grade classes . |
| 30 | In design it was to be a narrow flight of steps descending a steep slope , partly below ground , that ended abruptly above the sea at a vertical plate-glass wall . |