Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eponymous heroine is a raggle-taggle Romany wild child who leads a none-too-glamorous existence breading in vicious horses while starving ; but her escape is in dreams of palatial estates and clean petticoats . |
| 2 | Our description of short-term contract working In one of its most traditional forms — seasonal working — has shown that temporary workers can not always be distinguished from regular workers simply by reference to the contract of employment under which they work . |
| 3 | Recent regional policies originating from central government are described in Robinson et al . |
| 4 | The nature of delegated financial control is that decision making in these areas is moved from the LEA to the school level . |
| 5 | Seeing the poverty around him while he was growing up , he joined in with the political groups agitating for social change . |
| 6 | If the system is set up to compare the amounts of each wavelength coming from different parts of the scene the problem of colour constancy is solved immediately . |
| 7 | It can not be compared with the ‘ big six ’ national brewers ( Allied , Bass , Courage , Watneys , Whitbread , and Scottish and Newcastle ) , and it is significantly smaller than the main ‘ regional ’ brewers ( i.e. Greenall Whitley and Boddingtons ) , but it nevertheless retains a market niche as a regional brewery specializing in distinctive , good quality beers . |
| 8 | ‘ There are double and triple checks going on all the time . ’ |
| 9 | It is likely to widen the content of the curriculum and inject recent mainstream curriculum thinking into many special schools ( Bovair et al . |
| 10 | Technical barriers — restriction on economic activities resulting from national rules and regulations . |
| 11 | Indeed Patinkin ( 1965 ) has suggested that one should regard Keynes 's full employment aggregate supply function as one of an infinite set of vertical supply functions , each function corresponding to different values for the real wage rate as in Figure 7.4 . |
| 12 | There are many other distinctions which the Aborigines make which we do not — an illustration of the fact that the world does not come pre-packed into nameable entities waiting for each language to pin its names on . |
| 13 | Indeed the approach in some ways resembled that of the early Russian school of soil science and involved the recognition of zonal phenomena as the direct results of latitudinal climatic belts ; of azonal phenomena arising from non-climatic control including endogenetic effects ; extrazonal phenomena which occurred beyond their normal range of occurrence such as sand dunes on coasts ; and polyzonal phenomena including those which operate in all regions of the globe subject to the same basic physical laws . |
| 14 | Within the local community it had survived during the Middle Ages and even to a certain extent right up to the nineteenth century , in spite of a foreign overlay of feudal institutions coming from western and southern Europe . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Now it is for these reasons all of these different views and these conflicting opinions coming from authoritative sources and the concern the locals have that this issue has been ramrodded through on a political ticket is is is the very reason why it should go to an inspector appointed by the Secretary of State at least some semblance of independence and that issues brought out in in full public consideration . |
| 17 | Flip over and you 'll find equally impressive tunes from Liberty City and Interceptor patiently waiting to be tried and tested , both estimable club-friendly giants sleepwalking through Deep House style lobbies and thoroughly warranting as much attention as ‘ Reach Me ’ . |
| 18 | German may be taken for one year , as part of an MA(General) curriculum or as an outside subject for a degree in another honours group ( perhaps English , or History , or Philosophy ) , or as a progressive course lasting for two , three or four years within the MA(Honours) or the MA(General) . |
| 19 | In the course of this discussion it is Christianity , and the Christian basis of ‘ moral values ’ which have emerged as the key to understanding Mrs Whitehouse 's and the NVALA 's response to the cultural , social and political transformations occurring in post-war Britain . |
| 20 | Casein glue , therefore , is sold as a white dry powder consisting of dried whey , caustic soda or something similar , and lime . |
| 21 | The influence of the document on the SSD is noticeable ; there are two working groups looking at developing guidance on residential care and training and sexuality . |
| 22 | ‘ Further , as the minister of state , Lord Fraser , said recently , we currently have a major interdepartmental working group looking at all aspects of criminal justice legislation besides some eight other working groups looking at particular aspects of the system . |
| 23 | She is best known for her rings with tall bezels towering above slender hoops . |
| 24 | Nuclear energy will grow considerably but from a low base accounting for some 3% of total energy demand by the year 2000 from programmes underway in Brazil , Argentina and Mexico . |
| 25 | Classical literature is a polite literature luxuriating in endless prevarication and self-indulgence . |
| 26 | Our brains were designed to understand hunting and gathering , mating and child-rearing : a world of medium-sized objects moving in three dimensions at moderate speeds . |
| 27 | The dominant force in British 750 bike racing in 1993 added the Super Cup series to his British Superbike Championship with two runaway wins on the 2.6 mile Grand Prix track . |
| 28 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 29 | This is a fine listed Georgian building standing in half an acre of grounds with a stream — once famous for driving the greatest concentration of water mills in Great Britain . |
| 30 | Centre Ocean Stream is a unique company renowned for their spectacular performances with characters transformed beyond recognition into unbelievable images moving in coloured light . |