Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as the set OPEN of known nodes which might lead to goals , and whose children have yet to be explored , the algorithm keeps a set called CLOSED of other known nodes whose children have been constructed . |
| 2 | The algorithm keeps a set of several strings . |
| 3 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 4 | The algorithm scans the sequence of top symbols of parses , and looks for pairs M , P which crop up together unexpectedly often . |
| 5 | To do that , at each step , the algorithm constructs a planning sub-task . |
| 6 | Thus , the algorithm searches a space in which each node is a pair : ( N , LOp ) |
| 7 | Miles used his connection with the starpod to dim the chamber lights , and the stars sprang into sharp relief . |
| 8 | The porter made a face . |
| 9 | The porter took the lamp away with him |
| 10 | The prioress instructed the porter to take the body into the nearby infirmary , ordered the crowd to disperse and asked one of the sisters to extend hospitality to the pedlar . |
| 11 | The porter stops a couple of paces on and says , ‘ Paul . ’ |
| 12 | She paced the room , staring out of the window until the view became too monotonous to continue watching , looking at her watch and at the door , and was about to leave when she heard the porter turning the key in the lock . |
| 13 | The porter has a kilt poking out from under his jacket , and Macduff is stuck with wearing a raincoat on top of his dinner suit for the whole show . |
| 14 | The porter holds the car door as if restraining a very strong , young Galapagos tortoise from doing what it pleases . |
| 15 | The porter caught the coin and nodded . |
| 16 | Corbett filled the wine cup , drank some himself and then forced the goblet between his servant 's lips , snarling at the porter to bring a blanket . |
| 17 | He had found the porter visiting the superintendent nurse in her room , a form of social exchange that was strictly forbidden . |
| 18 | When the porter entered the room the stranger melted into thin air . |
| 19 | But the defence said the accident would n't have happened if Gloucestershire 's Robin Phelps had checked the locking pins before trying to move the gangry on . |
| 20 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 21 | Mr Nichol demanded : ‘ Who leaked this report before we in the defence had a chance to see it ? ’ |
| 22 | The report ended with the defence telling the jury it would be very dangerous to record a conviction on the uncorroborated evidence of the girl . |
| 23 | Again the defence got the blame , though I think myself if the forwards are n't putting away the chances we 'll never get anywhere . |
| 24 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the appropriate means of achieving fairness to an accused with regard to disclosure to the defence of material in the prosecution 's possession was a matter to be determined by the particular legislature , executive and judiciary concerned ; that although the Jamaican practice , particularly in relation to inconsistent previous statements , would normally be an acceptable means of achieving such fairness it did not extend to every situation in which fairness required the prosecution to make material available to the defence ; that where the prosecution intended a witness 's evidence to be based on his statement to the police and to deviate significantly from his deposition , the prosecution was under a duty to supply the defence with a copy of the statement before the trial ; and that , therefore , since the deceased 's husband and sister had given evidence inconsistent with their statements , and important testimony had been adduced from them which had not been foreshadowed in their depositions , the failure to disclose their statements to the defence constituted a material irregularity ( post , pp. 161H — 162A , B , B–C , 165C–E ) . |
| 25 | Counsel for the defence presents the case for the accused . |
| 26 | Counsel for the defence addressed the jury and the judge summed up . |
| 27 | After the jury was sworn , there began immediately a seven-day voire dire in which the defence challenged the admissibility of all the evidence resulting from the undercover operation . |
| 28 | Patrick Edgeworth 's Boswell For The Defence has a plot of sorts — the barrister 's defence of Mary Broad , an escapee from the penal colony at Sydney Cove — but , in the end , the form defeats any narrative thrust . |
| 29 | This will leave the defence to raise the issue of consent , which will then be left to the jury . |
| 30 | In this case , the question of mens rea was crucial , the defence arguing the relevance of the BBFC 's decision to refuse a national certificate in 1970 so that the film could first be assessed by a representative sample of local licensing authorities who were more closely in touch with community standards . |