Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd come to seduce the man , for goodness ' sake ; right now she felt more like an job applicant attending an important interview . |
| 2 | As chairman of an access group representing the disabled in the town , she said she had written to two leading Labour councillors asking the Labour group to reject the recommendations . |
| 3 | Social Work Today ( 3 March 1988 , p. 3 ) welcomed as a ‘ legal first for adoption ’ a Law Lord 's ruling on an adoption order allowing an adopted girl aged thirteen access to her natural brother . |
| 4 | His feet , shod in the long black leather boots of China 's Ming rulers , rested in the embrace of two reclining golden dogs carved in the throne 's base and in his hands he held an ivory wand bearing a tiny mirror , which , Tran Van Hieu had explained , he used to shield his face and demonstrate his symbolic humility before the spirits of his ancestors . |
| 5 | His son died with four other members of the Kings Regiment when the IRA forced a proxy driver to smash into an army roadblock carrying a huge bomb . |
| 6 | A second example , of an outline map showing the international boundaries of the continent of Africa , is shown in Figure 4.3(b) . |
| 7 | If you qualify and wish to apply for a divorce : send for an application form using the tear-off part of this leaflet , but keep the remainder of the leaflet : it may be of help to you later |
| 8 | The hyper-medium is an information space representing a high-level abstraction of data . |
| 9 | The AA Foundation study also suggests that car radio/cassette players should be designed to be as automatic as possible , and sold with an information leaflet highlighting the possible influences of music on driving . |
| 10 | It has been shown recently that adhesiveness of lymphocytes from patients with leucocyte adhesion deficiency can be restored by transfection with an expression vector continuing the complementary DNA for the normal β2 subunit . |
| 11 | Be ready to cope by assembling an emergency kit containing the following items : |
| 12 | In a good painting , an horizon line butting the vertical edges of a canvas would be lost into the atmosphere and probably turned slightly downwards at the ends . |
| 13 | After suffering racial abuse , damage to her property , and physical attack from her neighbours and receiving no help from the police , she resorted to the installation of extreme security measures by covering every window and outside door with steel shutters , and an alarm system covering the whole house . |
| 14 | an archive system ensuring the secure storage of all documents processed by the system |