Example sentences of "sit [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atlas 's purpose is to sit between the corporate systems and the EDI network , allowing messages to be generated to various standards and in various formats . |
| 2 | It was from this base that Marian was invited in 1976 to apply to sit as an Assistant Recorder on the North-Eastern Circuit . |
| 3 | Looking to the future , this conflict should cease to arise ; race-awareness training is now integrated into basic training , where it sits as a natural part of discussions on impartiality and prejudice during the interviewing process and should have the benefits that CAB anti-racist policy intends . |
| 4 | Judge David , 71 , who also sits as an assistant High Court Judge , was describing why the dock of the court was surrounded by bullet proof glass . |
| 5 | Legislative power is vested in a unicameral National Assembly which sits for a five-year term and consists of six appointed senators and 15 popularly elected representatives . |
| 6 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 7 | A kitchen timer that rings to indicate to the child when they have managed to sit for a specific length of time can be linked to the reward chart . |
| 8 | Recorders ( of whom there are over seven hundred , plus some five hundred Assistant Recorders ) are practising barristers or solicitors who are required to sit for a few weeks each year . |
| 9 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 10 | Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination . |
| 11 | Sit for a relaxing drink in its comfortable bar and you look out through picture windows which frame gondolas alive with colour and Venetian style . |
| 12 | ‘ Since fall 1980 each American academic exchange delegation to visit Peking has had to sit through a lengthy recounting of the research improprieties I am alleged to have committed , ’ Mosher said , in a statement last week . |
| 13 | the participants for H Two will have already discovered , we are still tackling part of H One from yesterday , but , and I apologize that you will have to sit through the outstanding items of discussion . |
| 14 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 15 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 16 | For I had already sat through a grave miscarriage of justice . |
| 17 | Instead of seeing the person depicted on the duckpond surface of the polaroids , he sees an amalgam : this one 's slightly dark upper lip , this one 's nervy legs , this one 's role in Le Médecin malgré lui at the Comédie Française ( where he has recently sat through an excruciating evening of seventeenth-century high camp ) , this one 's intensely white and brown eyes , this one 's professed love of Shakespeare , this one 's part in an erotic thriller ( he can remember her buttocks from that movie , but he ca n't fix them to the right actress without his notes ) . |
| 18 | He raised the mug to his lips and sipped the hot sugary tea , remembering the day when he had sat for the first time in Mr Corcoran 's office . |
| 19 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 20 | Ingraham had sat as an independent MP before joining the FNM in April 1990 . |
| 21 | And what part did the cripple play who had sat like a malignant spirit guarding a make-shift bridge over an unimportant stream ? |
| 22 | ANY Scot who has ever sat in a drafty hall , feeling a mounting sense of doom while staring blankly at an exam paper has probably cursed Edinburgh-based Pillans & Wilson for collaborating in their misery by printing the question papers . |
| 23 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 24 | So for a full week he had sat in the outer office , and waited . |
| 25 | The man who had sat in the front passenger-seat leant down and grabbed the girl 's arm , dragged her through the dirt towards the car and pushed her in . |
| 26 | He may not , however , have sat in the final term as he was under sentence of excommunication , possibly for his part in the battle of Lewes . |
| 27 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 28 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 29 | Death-beds are not easily mistaken and Mrs Hellyer had sat beside a few . |
| 30 | The next morning , Buzz sat on a pale blue chair before the window in Elinor 's bedroom . |