Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She squinted at Madeleine 's thin ankles , arched foot swinging a high-heeled slipper . |
| 2 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
| 3 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 4 | The public house known as the Brewery Tap was quite a large and tall building having a big yard with stables at the left hand side . |
| 5 | This being so , there is virtually 100% transmission of each Fourier component of the signal with each component suffering a phase shift of β per section , where β is given by equation ( 9.23 ) or ( 9.27 ) . |
| 6 | Clusters range in size from fairly restricted features such as Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic , to much more extensive volcanic groups covering a considerable area such as the Azores in the North Atlantic and the Galapagos Islands in the eastem Pacific . |
| 7 | He returned it to the Society and it was agreed that the arrow would be retained from then on as the Papingo Trophy , with each winner adding a gold or silver medal bearing his name and the year of his success . |
| 8 | In any one day 's activity a selector makes a large number of separate decisions about particular titles , each decision reflecting a range of background circumstances , some of them quite complex . |
| 9 | Face of comfort DIANA spent eight hours visiting a hospice for sufferers from cancer yesterday . |
| 10 | According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation . |
| 11 | The increased seating capacity which would be provided by even an extra fifty coaches leaving a town over ten to twenty years , at a time of rapid urban population increase , points to how tiny a fraction of the population ever travelled by stage coach . |
| 12 | We 're doing the same thing here , we 've got a , a low resistance letting a lot of current in , letting a lot of current go through . |
| 13 | Lanham 's view that rape can be a perfectly understandable and forgivable way of dealing with the problems of a marriage echoes that expressed by Lord Dunedin in 1924 in a matrimonial case involving a wife who refused to consummate her marriage . |
| 14 | In the universities , where in the sixties rioting students and the educated tele-celebrities of the ‘ chattering classes ’ had commanded public attention , there were now dormant , apolitical students anxious only for their future employment , and embittered lecturers suffering a crisis of morale and lamenting the bureaucratic invasion of time traditionally left for teaching and research . |
| 15 | Lightly dry washed hair using a diffuser attachment , then work a mousse through your roots to give height . |
| 16 | Many such creatures increase in size by segmentation , each segment containing a batch of similar organs , legs , excretory devices , and reproductive organs , so that each is partially independent of the remainder . |
| 17 | As with purse nets , I prefer to make my own , each long-net having a 2-inch ( 5-centimetre ) knot-to-knot diameter . |
| 18 | Rather we offer an extensible framework containing a common core of features , a choice of frameworks or bases , and a wide variety of optional additions for specific application areas . |
| 19 | Now , to what extent could one move in that direction using a computer , which is a rather precise and definite sort of object that wants to know exactly what it has to do and how it has to do it ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Financial Times of Feb. 21 reported that the credit was conditional on the 1991-92 budget incorporating a " credible stabilization package " . |
| 22 | Yet in everyday terms most of us have little difficulty using a quite specific meaning of the term ‘ politics ’ seeing elections , party competition , parliamentary majorities and the composition and deliberations of cabinets and parliaments as the heart of British politics . |
| 23 | Other simple experiments use the bending of a beam or the torsion of a cylinder , in each case verifying a quasi-linear relation between load and deflection and an attendant modulus ( see Chap . |
| 24 | Following the case of Re Beecham Group Ltd 's Application there seems to be a good chance of any restriction contained in a s.52 agreement being modified or discharged on application ; the Tribunal in that case modifying a restriction contained in a s.52 agreement to allow development , on the basis that the local authority would suffer no injury if the restriction was modified . |
| 25 | In most other cases of weak syllables containing a close front unrounded vowel we can assign the vowel to the phoneme , as in the first syllable of ‘ resist ’ , ‘ inane ’ , ‘ enough ’ , the middle syllable of ‘ incident ’ , ‘ orchestra ’ , ‘ artichoke ’ , and the final syllable of ‘ swimming ’ , ‘ liquid ’ , ‘ optic ’ . |
| 26 | The new 132-page Luxembourg draft retained references to a " federal goal " , to an eventual common defence policy , to a Commission reduced in size from 17 to 12 , to European citizenship as proposed by the Spanish government , and to the European Parliament having a right of " co-decision " with the Council of Ministers [ see p. 38154 ] . |
| 27 | Technical harmonisation and standards developing standardisation the European level covering a wide range of products . |
| 28 | These observations are consistent with findings with normal subjects suggesting a role for the right hemisphere in appreciation of the prosodic factors in speech ( Haggard and Parkinson , 1971 ; Zurif 1974 ; Blumstein and Cooper , 1974 ; Craig , 1979a ; Dwyer and Rinn , 1981 ) . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | In many cases the variations are really a succession of short , separate pieces based on the same series , each piece having a specific character , contrasting with the others , but stylistically unified with them . |