Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's no reason why a fellow who wants to spend a pleasant afternoon playing a decent game of rugby should have his life ruined . |
| 2 | Christmas was coming and Ellen took a part-time job in the college office to meet the extra costs of the season , and there met Nerina 's mother , a pleasant woman wearing a serviceable sari and black lace-up shoes . |
| 3 | It 's exclusive to club 18–30 , it 's near the centre of town , it has a great pool and sunbathing area , a waiter-service restaurant with a special buffet breakfast and a reputation for excellent food , a friendly bar serving a good range of snacks . |
| 4 | The Kremlin was also anxious to avoid involvement because of the potential loss of face if the USSR 's inability to send conventional military support to a friendly country undergoing a successful US action were to be made manifest . |
| 5 | ABOVE –Preconstruction' by Andrew Farmer showing a hypothetical probe approaching a black hole that is part of a binary system . |
| 6 | She comes into the room like a shy actress making a bad entrance , to find us poised round the door like actors on the set . |
| 7 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 8 | For a Scandinavian tourist visiting a Mediterranean country , the situation would be reversed , though with probably more trivial consequences . |
| 9 | No defence is available in respect of statutory nuisances within s.92(1) ( a ) ( b ) ( e ) or ( f ) , or to a private individual causing a statutory nuisance under s.92(1) ( c ) or ( d ) . |
| 10 | Glass , familiar for centuries , is a solid material showing no crystalline structure . |
| 11 | The remaining three peaks of the west ridge ( Loughshannagh , Carn and Muck ) are not especially exciting , but below the ridge to the east is a broad shelf containing the beautiful little lake of Lough Shannagh and ending abruptly at the top of the Ben Crom cliffs . |
| 12 | Critics pointed out that this could very well mean a well-organised minority taking an irreversible decision about the future of a school . |
| 13 | Measurements of are made using a differential refractometer employing the same wavelength of light as used in the light scattering . |
| 14 | The cell had no features other than a low shelf bearing a thin vinyl mattress . |
| 15 | Many in the Labour movement were prepared to admit that without a strong combination forcing the National Government out of office " we may not get a chance for a very long time of putting into effect our ultimate aims " . |
| 16 | Given that we have so little information about rape , does the increased press reporting , given its restricted nature , hinder the chance of a raped woman getting a fair ‘ trial ’ ? |
| 17 | In the north-east , we also saw on our televisions a gentleman — if one can call him that — being interviewed after the death of his son in a 90-mph crash involving a stolen car on the outskirts of Newcastle . |
| 18 | I stayed up most of the night , totally engrossed in the book only to find that David Wood had published what I had only just begun to suspect , a definite pattern underlying the whole region of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 19 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 20 | Teacher John Etherington and assistant bursar Derek Graham are to undertake a strenuous quadrathon involving a 1.25 mile swim , followed by a 56 mile cycle ride , four miles self-propelled in a wheelchair and a run of 13 miles . |
| 21 | The battle rages on either side of her in two self-contained halves which balance each other closely : a combat ; an archer shooting towards the angle ; a crouching figure despatching a fallen one ; a figure , his head towards the angle , struck down by the bowman 's shaft ; and beyond him , in the corner , gear ( a shield , a helmet ) . |
| 22 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 23 | Mounted centrally on the roof was a tall tower supporting a neat diamond pantograph collector , which gave the cars their popular name . |
| 24 | At its gates a tall woman leading a Borzoi dog viewed her passing with disdain . |
| 25 | The tape recorder sat on the table between a fluted glass containing an artificial rose and the giant black pepper grinder the waiter had inadvertently left behind . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Starting on July 1 , 1990 , the contracting parties shall constitute a monetary union comprising a unified currency area and with the Deutsche Mark as the common currency . |
| 27 | Reception arrangements often went badly : a rural area expecting a few dozen docile grammar-school girls could find itself , at ten o'clock in the evening , invaded by a hundred resentful East End mothers with exhausted and fretful babies . |
| 28 | ‘ We should be able to call on individuals or groups from the support force , who might undertake a short-term assignment helping a particular authority with a particular issue ’ . |
| 29 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | As a stepping stone towards a regional common market , the Presidents of El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras , meeting on May 12 in Nueva Ocotepeque , Honduras , had agreed to establish a free-trade zone creating a potential market of 20,000,000 consumers and to boost annual trade between the three from the currently estimated US$600 million to US$4,500 million . |