Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities . |
| 2 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |
| 3 | The video would show activities undertaken during a typical school day , including lunch times and break times , the routines for meeting children at the end of the day , introduce the staff and the chair of governors and the chair of the parents ' association . |
| 4 | In social work practice the term ‘ relationship ’ is used to describe the context of the general helping activities undertaken by a social worker in interaction with a particular client . |
| 5 | And she returned shortly afterwards with a thick roll of notes fastened with a rubber band and Melanie counted out seventy-eight pounds and a ten shilling note and the woman gave her five shillings from her alligator purse . |
| 6 | This is because the subjects taught really fall into three types , namely , appropriate parts of basic disciplines taught on a theoretical basis , e.g. economics , psychology , sociology , mathematics ; essentially practical , procedural subjects such as accounting , and problem areas which are a mixture of theory , practice and problem solving , e.g. marketing , policy studies . |
| 7 | Arthur Kitson 's views developed from a generalized critique of the banking system and the role Jews supposedly played in it . |
| 8 | The expression " breach of warranty " is often used in disputes about deferred consideration , when vendors are said in the agreement to " warrant " that the profits reach a specified figure , and the purchasers seek a repayment from the vendors to compensate them for that loss , in most cases calculated on a pre-agreed formula : if the profits exceed the specified figure , the vendors may be entitled to additional consideration . |
| 9 | The tufted ducks gathered into a loose raft in mid-water and eyed the intruders with disdain . |
| 10 | In three of these cases referred with a probable diagnosis of achalasia , however , the absence of peristalsis in the body of the oesophagus helped to confirm the diagnosis . |
| 11 | LIFESPAN is equally appropriate for controlling a large number of small projects developed from a common base of software . |
| 12 | ( 4 ) Branchial openings arranged in a slanting line ( suggesting a separation of pharynx from oesophagus as in modern lampreys ) . |
| 13 | One group portrait has been taken in a garden : three generations arranged on a Turkish rug . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Robyn 's insides clenched into a tight ball . |
| 16 | Mr Castro said it would be ’ arbitrary , capricious and absurd ’ to apply policies designed for a big country to little Cuba . |
| 17 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 18 | In other words , not for the first time , it was the estate policies pursued by a particular landowner which produced the northern village plans . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |
| 21 | Coins dropped into a muddy pool are likely to be lost forever . |
| 22 | The birds responded with a loud cry of ‘ Ti-lo Ti-lo ! ’ |
| 23 | Formerly the Newspaper Proprietors Association , it now became the Newspaper Publishers Association , marking a shift from member groups dominated by a single proprietor to corporations managed on more orthodox commercial lines and with a wide range of finance . |
| 24 | Back in the kitchen , Carolyn gave Annie a saucer of currants to eat ( she ate them so beautifully , one by one , held painstakingly pincered between thumb and index finger , her other fingers cocked like a tea-sipping lady ) and carried on with the food . |
| 25 | Her lips parted on a tiny gasp . |
| 26 | Her lips parted in a small smile which she could not control . |
| 27 | That brought her head round , her lips parted in a faint gasp . |
| 28 | Her lips parted in a shocked smile . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Sabine 's lips parted in a soundless gasp . |