Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has become something of an art form , with some prisoners acquiring an enviable reputation for transforming prison fare into spicy and original ethnic dishes . |
| 2 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 3 | He 's got too many fingers in too many pies ok one groups making , one groups making a million pound a day , where another groups loosing a million pound a day or loosing two million pound a day , if you 've got too many fingers in too many pies |
| 4 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 5 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 6 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 7 | Having found a comfortable Gasthof in the suburb of Spitalhof , I passed a few hours wandering the old town . |
| 8 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 9 | Stalin was less interested in Korea and the type of state that developed was of idiosyncratic character , in some respects resembling the Soviet Union and in others the kind of communist party devised by Mao Tse-tung during the Yenan era . |
| 10 | There were however some dicta supporting a wider review power . |
| 11 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |
| 12 | Under such conditions natural selection may favour some individuals occupying the all-female life style . |
| 13 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 14 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 15 | Clinton will spend the next few days meeting a wide range of individuals but will not announce any appointments to his administration until he feels comfortable , said spokeswoman DeeDee Myers . |
| 16 | Against the background of almost zero national population growth in the 1970s and 1980s , this has produced a mosaic of both absolute growth and absolute decline across Britain with relatively few places maintaining a static population size . |
| 17 | The output probe order of the annealing is then broken into a set of probe contigs , with either no or very few clones connecting the last probe of one contig to the first probe of the next . |
| 18 | And equivalent results have come from at least some studies using the conditioned suppression procedure ( e.g. Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) , who compared intervals of 1 day and 5 days ; Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , who compared 1 day and 8 days ; but see also Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) ) . |
| 19 | Despite the fact that the DoH expects our contribution to the voluntary sector to stay at about 20 per cent , we will still have some problems keeping the voluntary sector 's involvement at the same level as last year ’ . |
| 20 | Reliable comparative statistics are hard to find but the European Commission has published some figures showing the relative purchasing power of pensions in each of the member states . |
| 21 | A simple solution is to use an old film canister and carry just a few hooks leaving the open box at home out of harm 's way . |
| 22 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 23 | However , there has been debate as to the validity of the model r11–13 with some scientists favouring the original explanation in terms of steady-state spatial structure , dividing the precipitating plasma into ‘ cleft ’ , ‘ cusp ’ and ‘ mantle ’ regions . |
| 24 | In case librarians and information scientists feel that the first stage of Taylor 's processes of adding value is not very challenging , I feel that I should spend a few moments indicating the considerable complexity of the publicly available information resource potentially relevant to business activities . |
| 25 | Tamar stood for few moments studying the turbulent river , which seemed to reflect the turmoil of her thoughts . |
| 26 | It was nearly two o'clock and there were few soldiers drinking the hot soup and ersatz coffee . |
| 27 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 28 | Beyond Rawthey Bridge , where the river changes direction , the road gradually enters a different terrain , more open and bare , the last few miles crossing a bleak moorland overlooked by Wild Boar Fell and its northern ridge . |
| 29 | glandulosa , bilberries Vaccinium uliginosum and crowberries Empetrum hermaphroditum , which grow recumbent or semi-prostrate , in some patches forming a complete ground cover . |
| 30 | For such clients raising a second mortgage to pay off the credit card debt often seems the only answer . |