Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This ambitious presentation of amateur radio to young people involves inviting Novice trainees , Scouts , Guides and ATC members to take part in amateur radio related activities arranged over a whole weekend plus some social activities .
2 The storm builds to a particular intensity .
3 The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit .
4 Climbers make a great mistake , however , in imagining that each of these groups aspires to the dizzy heights of dangling .
5 But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval .
6 More handsome than ever in his morning suit , his black hair gleaming with a brilliant sheen , and his eyes , his once dark and brooding eyes , now alight with the glow of love in them , Marc came swiftly to her side .
7 She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen .
8 At the broadest level , the Course contributes in a major way to the achievement of the Polytechnic 's overall aims .
9 Our large cases sit on a small side table at knee-level .
10 ( ROS goes upstage : Ideally a sort of upper deck joined to the downstage lower deck by short steps .
11 A good proportion of our work concerned our availability to act as an unacknowledged arm of the social welfare service to drug users in crisis situations , providing a front-line service for the ‘ speed freaks who 's OD 'd on the results of a bent script ’ , or the ‘ acid heads having a bad trip ’ , for we were in the streets , the pubs , the clubs , the crash pads , and communal houses frequented by the new ‘ alternative society ’ .
12 The eyebrows go up in an arch that would make a complete circle if they carried on down , the lids over those eyes , likened to a cobra 's by Candice Bergen , narrow to a slit ; the gleaming white teeth flash through the pursed lips in what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland called a ‘ killer smile ’ .
13 Passion offers schools , colleges and community venues the opportunity to invest in a vast wealth of information about our work during the 80 's and then draw from that information in a more creative and challenging way .
14 I hope that all hon. Members representing Northern Ireland will take the opportunity to invest in the economic future of the Province .
15 Tonics , restoratives and health remedies provide an opportunity to invest in the non-toxic remedies of the future .
16 Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road .
17 He had driven straight into a brick lorry , and car and driver coalesced in the final spasm .
18 All treatment was withdrawn for a minimum of two weeks , after which inclusion in the trial depended on a diastolic blood pressure >105 mm Hg .
19 From these expressions it is clear that , for specific choices of initial data , the curvature singularity formed by the interacting waves degenerates to a coordinate singularity .
20 The baby had rejected milk given by the foster mother .
21 The ideological terms in which the affected groups perceive of the environmental crisis are not politically sophisticated — in fact they have very little political content at all .
22 Fielden ( 2963 ) has shown that the roots of the segmental nerves in Anax imperator arise from separate dorsal and ventral tracts in the neuropile ; sensory activities predominate in the ventral tract and motor activity occurs almost entirely in the dorsal part .
23 They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment .
24 The charge of racism arose after the recent British National Party bye-election victory in East London .
25 An abandoned truck , its snout rammed into the steep bank of a cut , caused me a moment 's panic .
26 For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale .
27 On this assumption , all is not lost , as the expenses of a training course undertaken by a self-employed person are allowed as a business deduction under general principles when the training is undertaken for the purposes of the trade .
28 Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework .
29 Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat .
30 ON December 14 TODAY warned of the threat posed to women by the dangerously short sentence given to the multiple rapist Dr Thomas Courtney .
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