Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In about half of all cases hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is familial , the remaining cases presumably arising from sporadic mutation .
2 Percentages are based on a total of 46,652 solicitors altogether working in private practice .
3 Voluntary organisations in many cases became the effective agents of enforcement , as well as pressure groups constantly campaigning for further intervention , and here they became quasi-state apparatuses , a pattern which had a long history .
4 He raised his hands in the air in mock surrender , backing away , grey eyes suddenly dancing with genuine enjoyment .
5 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting .
6 20.1 In the case of any dispute or difference arising between the parties hereto relating to this Agreement or any matter arising therefrom or incidental thereto the same may be submitted to the arbitration of a single arbitrator in accordance with the provisions of the United Kingdom Arbitration Act 1979 or any statutory modification thereof for the time being in force .
7 Now he looked savage , his eyes still glittering with deadly ferocity .
8 ‘ You wish to speak with my secretary ? ’ he enquired coldly , his tones suddenly clinking with icy hostility .
9 The same , he says , applies to Windows emulation , and there are at least four companies now working on that technology , including the Apple Mac-to-Unix house Quorum Software Systems Inc and Bristol Technology Inc in Ridgefield , Connecticut .
10 Do you think it 's possible the Iraqis here living in this country could have some of these nerve gases that they could explode if the situation in Iraq gets very bad ?
11 Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it .
12 The seminar , to be organised in Santiago , Chile , 4–8 October , will draw on the rich variety of communication experiences and social movements currently flourishing in Chilean society .
13 I suppose that in a few countries like Nazi Germany in nineteen-thirty-six the erm the nation 's amateur champions were given a special backing because of the force of nationalism erm national focus of attention on them at that date , but it , it still was , they were amateurs still meeting on equal ground .
14 It involves defects in hemidesmosomes possibly resulting from defective interaction between the integrin and its ligand .
15 A simple clash of information will be found if books published ten years ago dealing with modern technology ( computers , etc. ) are compared with those published since 1980 .
16 Basically it was about certain British officials allegedly colluding in drug-test avoidance at some meetings in the early eighties .
17 The molecules can be thought of as little billiard balls continually colliding with each other and bouncing off the walls of the box .
18 Chicago was , of course , the leading capital of organised North American crime , with rival ethnically-based groups repeatedly engaging in open warfare .
19 Insanity was , and still is , a complete defence to crime , as we saw in Chapter 6.2 above , but its confines are narrow , and some persons obviously suffering from mental disorder came to be sentenced to death for murder before 1957 .
20 These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train .
21 In classical art we see the Greeks finally leaving behind any subservience to earlier traditions , and establishing their own style .
22 And it has been proved to be the way to do client server software with all of the other major vendors now moving towards this type of implementation .
23 More and more families are living inadequate homes with 190 families currently living in temporary accommodation in Preston , most of which is in bed and breakfast hostels .
24 ‘ What do you think you 're doing McAllister ? ’ asked Dr Neil as she walked towards him , just at the moment when the girl began to moan and thrash about , her pains suddenly returning in full force .
25 ‘ Especially in countries where there are large rural populations still living under Third World conditions , the transistor is usually among the most prized of possessions . ’
26 Theatre plays an essential part , and his paintings show a striking similarity to those of Chagall , with characters often flying in weightless space , but there is also a striking difference : where Chagall 's view is romantic , Pakenham concentrates on the bare-bones of reality on his own world stage .
27 Wrangham writes that in his observations the mounter could be either older or younger than the partner and that approaches were made in situations commonly lacking in social tension .
28 GAME players still reeling from this year 's wealth of super graphics and intricate formats had better recharge their batteries now — 1993 is going to be even more of a challenge .
29 Some of the diseases supposedly benefiting from such treatment are common in areas where glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is also common — for example , hepatitis B and HIV infection .
30 Also , on a more mundane level , there was the postponement of any financial debts then owing until such time as they returned from the crusade .
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