Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until then , let us seek to trade together , the Community with EFTA — I welcome the agreement to create a European economic area combining the two in 1993 . |
| 2 | Barrows argued that geography should concentrate on the study of the association between man and environment , it should concentrate on themes which lead towards synthesis with an economic regional geography occupying a central place , but that specialized branches , including geomorphology , climatology and biogeography should be separated from the parent subject . |
| 3 | Lightly dry washed hair using a diffuser attachment , then work a mousse through your roots to give height . |
| 4 | Two black leather chesterfields faced each other across a low glass-topped table bearing a cylindrical flower vase of highly polished stainless steel surrounded by three slimmer and smaller cylinders of the same material , which , empty , could have been a rather large cruet set , but the true function of which was illustrated by the pure white candles , long and pointed , which emerged from their upper openings . |
| 5 | Now that his policies , the economy and everything around is in disarray , and with the right hon. Lady making a comeback , who will be the first to put him out of his misery in Downing street — the people at the election or his right hon. Friend ? |
| 6 | The consequence of the widespread denial of ageism is a strong social taboo surrounding the subject of old age , decline and death . |
| 7 | That German Shepherd having a good , oh he 's gone , it 's the oh dear |
| 8 | The University of Cambridge provides training in embryo transfer techniques ; there is ample published literature describing the techniques of AI and ET . |
| 9 | The expectations were particularly high after he went over 2.33 metres in a low-key British league meeting a week ago . |
| 10 | The expectations were particularly high after he went over 2.33 metres in a low-key British league meeting a week ago . |
| 11 | There was a body of evidence that established that at the material time there was more than a normal commercial incentive influencing the actions of Bunn . |
| 12 | Thus far Iago Vaughan , like many another displaced labourer tramping the roads in search of casual work in these disturbed times , had followed the unwieldy cavalcade and kept his ears and eyes open . |
| 13 | It was bad enough he himself trying to turn into an amateur psychiatrist or psychotherapist or whatever they liked to call themselves , but to have some strange layman taking an interest in his wife , or his wife 's case , was altogether too much . |
| 14 | The murmur of chanting voices carried above the far-distant thunder of the Grand Trunk Road , the old Mughal highway linking the farms of the Punjab with the bazaars of Delhi . |
| 15 | Voltage across the timing capacitor C1 is a linear differential sawtooth having a constant peak voltage with frequency . |
| 16 | In the seaward wedge of Fife known as the East Neuk — neuk being an old Scots word meaning a corner — there was busy medieval trade with the Continent , still remembered in the crow-stepped gables of many Flemish-style houses , and a wide-ranging herring fishery . |
| 17 | Lying in a widening pool of blood , he stared vacant eyed with shock at his severed right arm lying a few feet from his face , still clothed in its black sleeve . |
| 18 | With Marco on the radio announcing his arrival to half a dozen people , Tabitha took the Alice rolling along the side of the valley , past the darkened chariot of some Terran senator paying an incognito visit to the brothels , and a recent model Freimacher Charisma , one runner broken , half buried beneath somebody else 's spilt cargo . |
| 19 | Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk . |
| 20 | The only problem comes where the existing switch is part of a two-way system , where you might need some technical help understanding the instructions , which are often written in electrician 's jargon rather than plain English . |
| 21 | This complete item showing the many qualities of Medau work was presented in Coburg to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Medau Schule in 1989 |
| 22 | They are now conducted , however , within a very different administrative framework following the changes introduced in the wake of the Maud and Bains Reports . |
| 23 | If the weight of the assessment detail were to lead to an understandable desire for simplification , there is another awful danger awaiting the child . |
| 24 | First , there is foreign economic policy-making involving the external relations of the national economy to the world economy ; second , there is stabilisation policy and the whole field of macroeconomic policy and the management " of the economy ; and finally , there is industrial policy covering all those aspects of governmental responsibility over the economy aimed at improving long-run efficiency , output and productivity . |
| 25 | Did this this morning watching a video . |
| 26 | Limestone reappears and is much in evidence when Hellgill Bridge is reached , this centuries-old structure spanning a deep gorge . |
| 27 | An Old English Sheepdog needing a minimum of an hour 's grooming a day sold to a mother of four children who barely has time to brush her own hair ? |
| 28 | He attacks our article on diabetes mellitus which quotes Dr Stephen Davies explaining the value of supplements and dietary intervention when , in fact , there is a wealth of published scientific evidence showing the value of such an approach . |
| 29 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 30 | One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks . |