Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages , two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language .
2 The feedforward circuit has a retina consisting of fifteen inputs .
3 anapaest ( US anapest ) In prosody , a foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable : I am " mon/arch of " all/I sur'vey .
4 True blank verse is written in iambic pentameters ( that is , each line is divided into five metrical feet , each foot consisting of two syllables with the stress on the second syllable ) .
5 In poetry , a foot consisting of one long syllable followed by two short .
6 In poetry or prose , a disyllabic foot consisting of one short , followed by one long syllable ( classical scansion ) or with stress on the second syllable ( English poetry ) .
7 This brought together in a simplified form a number of remedies obtainable from a Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division consisting of two or three judges .
8 He took a cardboard box and from it drew a toy consisting of two monkeys with bright brown fur and boot-button eyes .
9 His score is also notable for its choruses , particularly double choruses , which are accompanied — in contrast to the merely continuo supported solos — by the orchestra ( three violins and continuo for harpsichords , which are usually joined by arpe , liuti , tiorbe e violoni ) , not merely doubling the voices but sometimes playing independently : This orchestra is also employed in three unusually extended sinfonie to the Prologue and Second and Third Acts , that to the prologue consisting of 11 ( slow ) bars in quadruple time , a canzone of 32 bars with echo-effects of forte and piano emphasized by the scoring : 7 bars in triple time , and 21 in quadruple .
10 Lessons are individual and last 30 to 40 minutes , a full course consisting of 20 to 30 lessons spread over three to five months .
11 A qualified teacher will have undergone a three-year course consisting of twenty hours a week in college as well as home study .
12 The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group .
13 Dysuria and urethral discharge are the main presenting symptoms , appearing anything from one to six weeks after catching the infection , with the majority occurring at two or three weeks .
14 Or that on their first-ever real takeoff during base checks at Prestwick , most pilots have as much difficulty keeping at 1,500 feet circuit height as does a low-hour student in a Cessna 152 ?
15 The theory of multiple authorship is more usual in explaining repetitions such as the Creation story appearing in two different ( and slightly contradictory ) accounts .
16 There were two large vegetable dishes with lids on in the centre of the table and , beyond them , on an oval plate , was a roasted chicken , brown and shiny with stuffing oozing from one end .
17 Now Middlesbrough face the formidable challenge of Manchester United in the two-leg semi-final , a rich reward for the only League club firing on three fronts .
18 The building site was surrounded by a token fence consisting of two slack strands of barbed wire .
19 The show consists of one installation , a piece consisting of dozens of 50 cm-high three , five and seven-sided steel rods placed in upright groups on granite bases .
20 The output from the program was a domain-based collocation dictionary consisting of 156 entries , with headwords listed in alphabetical order and collocation information in the form of wordlists appended to each headword .
21 She turned and Cameron saw , under her arm , old Donald 's face , eyes staring fixedly , his mouth drooping at one side , a shine of saliva on his chin .
22 Airline finances and particularly those of small independents are very volatile , sometimes the difference between profit and loss resting on two or three additional seats being filled .
23 The whole of the police force consisting of one sergeant and two constables was inspected at East Tarbert .
24 As a result of this and subsequent deliberations it was agreed to form a local defence force consisting of 60 cavalrymen , who were to extend their protection ‘ … as far as any adjoining town not exceeding 20 miles distance from Frome ’ , together with 100 infantry .
25 To improve quality it recommended a two-divisional Sunday League , a straight knockout Benson & Hedges competition , and a County Championship programme consisting of 16 three-day and eight four-day matches , the latter to include Sunday play , on uncovered pitches and with bonus points only for bowling .
26 It then suggested a pattern of full-time study consisting of two courses , which were dubbed C1 and C2 .
27 Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place .
28 A very basic instrument consisting of five ranks of pipes on one manual and pedals would cost about £15,000 .
29 The necessary points came in the shape of three halved games , with Andrew Hare recovering from two down with two to play and Jim Milligan , playing Jay Sigel in the anchor match , was two down and three to play .
30 After intravenous administration of a pulse dose of 10 µCi [ 1-C ] L-leucine , a four hour intravenous infusion consisting of 500 ml 0.45% sodium chloride , 50 µCi [ 1-C ] L-leucine tracer , secretin ( 2.0 Crick-Harper-Raper U/kg/ h ) , and cholecystokinin ( 0.5 CHR U/kg/h ) was started .
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