Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 2 | Here , the researcher explores how the foraging patterns develop in a similar way to the patterns that can be produced on a computer by following simple , repetitive rules . |
| 3 | Texts and objects combine in a new installation by Marlene McCarthy at Metro Pictures until 27 March and new paintings featuring over-sized calligraphic texts figure in Linda Daniel 's new work at Jose Freire Fine Arts , until 21 March . |
| 4 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) Branchial openings arranged in a slanting line ( suggesting a separation of pharynx from oesophagus as in modern lampreys ) . |
| 6 | Through contacts formed in a previous period of field work with poor urban women of this category , the investigator is proposing to hold long open-ended discussions with a sample of older women and their daughters on the subject of AIDS : e.g. their knowledge of the epidemiology of the disease , the method of its transmission and finally their assessment of their own risk of contracting the disease . |
| 7 | Her teeth bared in a tight smile . |
| 8 | This is among the proposals contained in a consultative document issued by the Department of Trade and Industry to implement the cancellation provisions of the Second Life Assurance Directive and proposed Third Life Assurance Directive . |
| 9 | Barn owls nesting in a small cave in Somerset ( see opposite ) produced a bone assemblage of 5161 bones from 113 prey individuals ( see p. 96 and Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Ward councillors have received a number of complaints and we will be contacting the Association , asking them to make the builders behave in a responsible manner . ’ |
| 11 | He spent months recovering in a private clinic in Bordeaux . |
| 12 | Her lips parted in a small smile which she could not control . |
| 13 | That brought her head round , her lips parted in a faint gasp . |
| 14 | Her lips parted in a shocked smile . |
| 15 | She had not the least idea what was going on , and she was smiling into the night in enquiry and wonder , her brows arched halfway to laughter , her lips parted in a whimsical welcome to whatever might be pending . |
| 16 | Sabine 's lips parted in a soundless gasp . |
| 17 | Sophie froze , a glass in either hand , her gaze fixed on the bathroom door , her lips parted in a silent cry . |
| 18 | One former senior official of the Korea Development Institute recently admitted : ‘ Old formulas for keeping the economy on track , usually technocratic solutions developed in a political vacuum , are no longer appropriate . ’ |
| 19 | Brown eyes gleamed in a straight face as he shrugged . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , despite these trends , local government retains a substantial political and administrative role in Britain , and central-local relationships remain in a continuous state of flux . |
| 21 | 1.2 " the Tenant " does not include any successors in title of the Tenant Unless the agreement provides otherwise , privity of contract will ensure that the original parties remain in a contractual relationship inter se to the extent of their obligations under the agreement . |
| 22 | Despite the non-dilated biliary tree , a percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogram was feasible : there was no communication between the right and the left system and both branches drained in a subhepatic collection . |
| 23 | Rosenthal documents cases where human subjects responded in a certain way because the experimenter had , unconsciously , communicated his expectation to them . |
| 24 | The localised heat draws oils from the skin and blood to the surface ; over the years permanently dilated blood vessels appear and brown pigmentation due to leaks from those vessels appear in a reticular pattern on the shins of old people . |
| 25 | His shoulders lifted in a vague shrug . |
| 26 | The small man 's shoulders lifted in a slight shrug . |
| 27 | His shoulders lifted in a resigned shrug . |
| 28 | They have sworn to follow guidelines contained in a new booklet produced by campaigners from Re-Solv the national society for the prevention of solvent abuse . |
| 29 | However , although words considered in a local context may seem perfectly acceptable in the sentential context these combinations may be unlikely . |
| 30 | Each aspect of party and leader images varied in a different way , some more predictably than others . |