Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently anterior and posterior abdominal scans were obtained at 40 , 120 , and 240 minutes using a large field of view gamma camera fitted with a low energy high resolution collimator and interfaced to a Research Machines Nimbus microcomputer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I remember my mother , who was an accomplished knitter , spending many hours knitting a yellow jersey from this yarn for my sister . |
| 4 | You should repeat each test at least ten times using a different animal of the same kind for each test . |
| 5 | The king prawns ( £11.95 ) are about as elaborate as you 'll get : four giants climbing a stylish mound of nutty black pasta interleaved with strips of courgette and carrot . |
| 6 | On the spot news from all over the world and this country — weekly programmes tackling a wide range of issues and stories with originality — and a wide range of programme formats to appeal to a wider audience . |
| 7 | They sleep during the day , and you will sometimes see flocks of little birds mobbing a sleeping owl in broad daylight . |
| 8 | Fire crews spent more than two hours tackling a severe blaze in an empty Middlesbrough house yesterday . |
| 9 | Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement . |
| 10 | The group is centred around Professor X , the Overseer ; Brother J , the Grand Verbaliser Funkin-Lesson ; and the Rhythm Provider , Sugar Shaft — upfront , serious brothers bringing a spiritual neo-nationalism to the streets of urban America , using hip hop culture to introduce and develop Blackwatch , a youth organisation working for self-help in the black inner cities . |
| 11 | A reactive search is by its nature a limited search for potential acquisition candidates using a small number of information sources . |
| 12 | It was an unspectacular , stable society , like the Basque Provinces enjoying a large degree of local autonomy . |
| 13 | Both are two-unit sealed enclosure designs using a new version of Wharfedale 's 25mm metal dome tweeter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That those unexpected interests in colour are still valid has been confirmed by Ryman 's ‘ Versions ’ , a series of sixteen recent pictures employing a thin layer of white pigment washed over coloured grounds laid on fibreglass , which were seen in Shaffhausen and at Pace , the artist 's New York gallery , in an exhibition which closed last month . |
| 16 | There was a voice — accusatory , though unclear — a jumble of words inducing a strong feeling of guilt . |
| 17 | The major thrust may have been carried by a dozen committed individuals , but when push has come to shove , the YCCC have been able to fill meeting halls for important confrontations , and have succeeded in getting eight places out of eleven on the City Council filled by candidates representing a broad coalition under the slogan ‘ It 's time for change , ’ which campaigned specifically on local issues . |
| 18 | Ophioprium was defined as follows : hidden radial shields ; large tentacle pores armed by two or more tentacle scales one attached to the lateral arm plate the other to the ventral arm plate ; numerous oral papillae forming a continuous series with long slender spinelets which are associated with the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 19 | A family characterised by the disk covered with small plates usually completely concealed by a dense coating of granules in adult specimens ; the radial shields usually visible ; the oral papillae forming a continuous series with the apical papillae ; the second oral tentacle scale opens within the mouth slit ; the arm spines short may be numerous , and appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 20 | It has been generally accepted that adenomatous polyps develop in the second and third decade with most affected untreated subjects developing a colorectal carcinoma by the age of 40 years . |
| 21 | Readers wanting a definitive account of routes to chaos should turn to , e.g. , Refs. [ 88 , 134 , 340 , 378 ] . |
| 22 | We were summoned to church , as the faithful were every Sunday , by loudspeakers blaring a scratchy recording of Mario Lanza singing Ave Maria . |
| 23 | Manufacturers selling a wide range of products over a wide geographical area to a market numbered in millions would find it prohibitively expensive to set up their own Highstreet stores , even if they were permitted to proliferate in this way . |
| 24 | They provide all the classic tones , from full and ripe through soft and pingy to pure and sharp , all with remarkably low noise and completely even volume levels from position to position , with the Manson 's maple top , generous neck and heavy machineheads adding a great sense of solidity and authority to the sound . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There is an extensive and rapidly growing literature on the tectonics of plate interiors , but unfortunately much of it is written from a geophysical rather than a geomorphic perspective and it is not readily accessible to readers lacking a good grounding in physics and maths . |
| 27 | This is consistent both with politicians being larger than people who simply wish to be in office whatever they have to do , and with parties having a central number of supporters who share an ideology . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , our surveys showed schools undertaking a wide range of activities in pursuit of home-school rapport and cooperation , particularly where younger children were concerned , and many schools went well beyond the obvious activities like information exchange , open days and social events to pursue more adventurous and long-term programmes . |
| 30 | And since the motor trade perceives a secondhand diesel as a good buy , there will be a lot of buyers from the taxi and motor trades chasing a finite pool of good cars . |