Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the draftsman may provide for the substitution of a different index to be agreed between the parties or determined by a third party in default of agreement . |
| 2 | Similar tragedies can occur even in rather unusual settings and caused by a different train of events , for example the North Sea Piper Alpha episode 1988 , where staff died either on the blazing oil installation or drowned in the surrounding sea of fire . |
| 3 | But no , as I watched , he turned a ball elegantly off his legs and called for a quick single . |
| 4 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 5 | A rapid and widescale communication network is thus provided , and good chants can be taken over from one set of fans and used against a different set the following week . |
| 6 | The thematic maps were computer generated , using information brought together from a number of databases and processed through a Geographic Information System with methods that were specially developed during the project . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1950 the French put forward the Pleven Plan , their aim being to ensure that any German forces were split into small units and integrated within a European Defence Community ( EDC ) . |
| 8 | Her headdress made from slipper satin and lace was trimmed with pearls and worn with a three tier long veil , both designed and made by Wizard of Goz in Kensington . |
| 9 | PHOTOGRAPHY magazine will endeavour to return all entries if accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope . |
| 10 | It was as if game birds had been flushed by beaters and driven towards a central point , forced to attack the heart of power and authority in a desperate bid to secure this for themselves and seal the planet . |
| 11 | A simple family record should be equally simple in its choice of words and spoken in a natural and relaxed tone of voice . |
| 12 | In the southern bay all the vehicles needing a heavy repair , or vehicles of a larger type ie : six wheel bogies , articulated stock etc , were repaired , but these were placed on stands and completed in a static position . |
| 13 | An American patchwork surrounded by pictures and arranged above a curved headboard is a simple way of creating a stunning bedhead . |
| 14 | The occupation of Denmark and Norway , carried through with unexpectedly low losses and seen as a major blow for Britain , was celebrated as a ‘ great success for the bold , determined policy of the Führer ’ , whose birthday in April 1940 saw propagandists struggling to find new superlatives to express the ‘ unshakeable loyalty ’ of his ‘ following ’ . |
| 15 | All home-made creams and ointments will keep for several months if stored in a cool dark place . |
| 16 | The CLAWS system also adopts ‘ backing off ’ formulae but seen from a different perspective — a bigram model is used except for special-case tag-triples which empirical results showed would be wrongly tagged . |
| 17 | Yorkshire cricket-lover and historian Tony Woodhouse suffered broken legs when hit by a swerving car recently , and is expected to spend the rest of the summer in hospital . |
| 18 | The hydrogen gas would be collected within the galls and piped to a central storage system . |
| 19 | Tension was measured by Pioden transducers and recorded by a six channel Teckman pen recorder . |
| 20 | And here was an inspection panel of close-set steel mesh embedded in the wall , sealed with waxen evil-eye hexes and painted with a faded inscription in the hieratic tongue : Hoc sacrificium consecrat nos muros . |
| 21 | A fortnight after Pedro 's plane plunged flaming into the sea , Angel was shot down behind British lines and escaped with a smashed kneecap and concussion . |
| 22 | On reaching the front , he claims , he was kneed in the groin by a policeman , dragged behind police lines and ordered into a Black Maria . |
| 23 | But despite this slight shift in the taboos , as late as the 1920s Havelock Ellis and Albert Moll were still able to recommend little metal suits of armour fitted over the genitals and attached to a locked belt as prophylaxis for masturbation , and sex education books continued to inveigh against the solitary vice well into the second half of the century . |
| 24 | Without a word Alexander Vass rose to his feet and crossed to a small desk at the far side of the room . |
| 25 | The sitting room sofas were a nondescript grey , dotted with cigarette burns and stained with a grimy black line at head level . |
| 26 | He , too , had lived with the Darwinian controversies and indulged in a similar backward projection . |
| 27 | This would be prefaced by asparagus , a traditional choice for weddings in my family ; and followed by raspberries , to my mind the most exquisite of summer fruits , served either pure and simple with a little cream , or combined with redcurrants and packed into a bread-lined basin to make summer pudding . |
| 28 | While both painters , and Picasso in particular , led active social lives and mixed with a wide circle of literary and artistic figures , their friendship seems to have rendered them self-sufficient . |
| 29 | It would seem reasonable to call a drug an analgesic for a rat if it delays the time when the rat licks its feet when parked on a hot plate . |
| 30 | As later chapters show , answers to the ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ question are also related to the kind of standards and routines adopted in housework , and to women 's self-concepts as expressed in a written statement . |