Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel her heart thumping that little bit faster against her ribs . |
| 2 | But without political institutions enjoying some real power it is difficult to have political conflict or political life in any but a very narrow sense of the term . |
| 3 | And the West Germans financing such cultural enterprises are doing so purely for their own image ; it is vanity , not philanthropy . |
| 4 | * Reports from Thailand suggest that , following the government 's ban on logging , Thai businessmen are taking increasing numbers of trees from Burma , Laos and Cambodia , in some cases using this legal trade to pass off illegally-felled Thai trees as legitimate imports . |
| 5 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 6 | In between projects allowing such personal statements as this , of course , Jordan has also worked increasingly in Hollywood , where he 's so far seen High Spirits cut to shreds and We 're No Angels ignored . |
| 7 | Spent the next ten minutes itemising all aforesaid so-and-so 's deficiencies . |
| 8 | In this text we are in part challenging this straightforward relation . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , parents will often impose their judgement , for instance condemning some pop music as " decadent " or just plain crude , and insisting that some children 's food brands are a rip-off ! |
| 10 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 11 | The charity planned to have sponsored groups climbing all 277 Munros — but organisers believe Beinn Sgulaird was missed out . |
| 12 | Giving his initial reaction on Feb. 19 , Bush declared that the terms fell " well short of what is required " , being supported in this assessment by the UK , but on Feb. 20 Italy appeared to endorse the Soviet plan , Cabinet Secretary Nino Cristofori announcing that Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti had declared it " perfectly in line " with UN resolutions . |
| 13 | The first action using any new technique is usually one of the most interesting , for the simple principles can be seen without any complications of secondary purposes or complicated gear , and this is true of the first beach reconnaissance at Rhodes . |
| 14 | Further analysis of the eluate using all three antisera indicated that a minor contribution was made also by a N-terminal 1–13 of G17 identified by the GP168 antiserum . |
| 15 | To deny that there is single quantity that can be characterised as arousal makes it much more difficult to generalize the results of research using any particular measure or manipulation of arousal to other situations . |
| 16 | It is a bit of a labour seeing this daft C movie last thing before Christmas , especially since it is based on the DC Comic series , which was beautifully drawn and imaginatively based on the Beauty and the Beast story . |
| 17 | The current R -factor is 25% using all measured data between 6 and 2.5 . |
| 18 | Among its chief attributes are its pleasingly creamy colour , its smoothness and coolness to the touch , its fine grain and the comparative ease with which it can be wrought to a variety of precise shapes using such elementary techniques as sawing , rubbing , polishing and perforating . |
| 19 | A preliminary study using these molecular techniques has also failed to show a significant increased risk of alcoholic liver disease in individuals who are homozygous or heterozygous for both the PiZ and PiS mutant alleles . |
| 20 | At the bottom of this hierarchy are business units representing each individual type of business . |
| 21 | On Feb. 6-7 regular Lebanese army units numbering some 1,500 men moved into Iqlim al-Tuffah and positions around Zahrani , Nabatiya and Tyre . |
| 22 | And Ben had been a shadowy figure representing that other world ; the world into which Johnny could not pass . |
| 23 | Organizations representing some 750,000 people , mainly trade unions , also endorsed the petition . |
| 24 | The Necromundan neophytes became very familiar with the operating altars and biomonitoring and chemical assay machines of the Apothacarion — with the mantis-like laser scalpels , the stasis tureens cradling the precious new organs , the examinator device towering like a brass-banded armadillo , its tapering snout scanning the innards of the body , and with the soporificator instrument resembling some giant spider that stung metacurare into the nerves ; to which the drone of surgical incantations from the adepts , whose robes were embroidered with arabesque prophylactic hexes and purity emblems , was a macabre lullaby . |
| 25 | He is also uncertain about whether or not contracts in which he hopes to sell computers costing several thousand pounds need to be in writing . |
| 26 | So I strolled amid the base huts sheltering those far-flung operatives of commerce , waiting for the heat of the day to draw the moisture from my 60/40 silk/viscose trouser mix . |
| 27 | The report estimates that most universities need maintenance costing several million pounds , and it seems unlikely that this money will be forthcoming . |
| 28 | In the absence of any words displacing those general provisions the answer must be the former . |
| 29 | Before considering the automatic directions , it is as well to remember that ( although they will be sufficient in most instances ) they are only the bare bones of the directions the parties may need in a personal injury case , and do not prevent the parties seeking any further directions they may need under Ord 25 whether set out in PF51 or not . |
| 30 | On Feb. 20 an Israeli force comprising some 350 soldiers , 36 Israeli tanks , 60 armoured troop carriers and 12 howitzers moved northwards from the " security zone " into an area of Lebanon patrolled by UNIFIL . |