Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She squinted at Madeleine 's thin ankles , arched foot swinging a high-heeled slipper . |
| 2 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
| 3 | The public house known as the Brewery Tap was quite a large and tall building having a big yard with stables at the left hand side . |
| 4 | Endoscopic sphincterotomy and basket extraction of the stones has been the most widely used technique having an overall success rate of 85% in clearing the ducts . |
| 5 | Finally , it may be mentioned that Hassan , Feinstein and Manko ( 1990 ) have recently obtained another particular solution describing the non-colinear case using the generating technique of Gutsunaev and Manko ( 1988 ) as described here in ( 12.56 ) and ( 15.57 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Parsons had turned to stand with his back to the fire , the eternal male hogging the best place in the room . |
| 7 | In a statement on Nov. 19 the Comoran Union for Progress ( Udzima ) announced that it was withdrawing support from its leader , President Said Mohammed Djohar , and going into opposition ; the statement accused Djohar of carrying out a political witch-hunt following an attempted coup and subsequent Cabinet reshuffle in August [ see p. 38378 ] . |
| 8 | Rather we offer an extensible framework containing a common core of features , a choice of frameworks or bases , and a wide variety of optional additions for specific application areas . |
| 9 | There 's no reason why a fellow who wants to spend a pleasant afternoon playing a decent game of rugby should have his life ruined . |
| 10 | The objectivity of the internal auditor is seen in terms of each auditor having an objective attitude of mind and being able to exercise judgement , express opinions and present recommendations with impartiality . |
| 11 | On 30 November Edmund died , Cnut had little difficulty persuading the English to ignore the claims of his relatives , and the country was re-united under his rule . |
| 12 | unc Once you have learnt this method you will have little difficulty solving the following equation . |
| 13 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 14 | Other simple experiments use the bending of a beam or the torsion of a cylinder , in each case verifying a quasi-linear relation between load and deflection and an attendant modulus ( see Chap . |
| 15 | There was no coherent ideology embracing the entire middle-class , but there were two ideologies that subsumed its more active sectors . |
| 16 | The encoder is used to make changes to presets , parameters and values and it ‘ clicks ’ through 360 degrees , with each click changing the selected parameter by one step . |
| 17 | This on the contrary is the work of political genius requiring the ripest wisdom and the freshest vigour , and it is done with an elegance and a style that will compel and will receive an instinctive respect throughout the civilized world . |
| 18 | Technical harmonisation and standards developing standardisation the European level covering a wide range of products . |
| 19 | Whether the issue is education or health , pollution or overseas aid , one sees the same mishmash of self-righteous resentment , sentimentality and wishful thinking providing the same simple answers to every problem , without the slightest reference to the real world . |
| 20 | The battle rages on either side of her in two self-contained halves which balance each other closely : a combat ; an archer shooting towards the angle ; a crouching figure despatching a fallen one ; a figure , his head towards the angle , struck down by the bowman 's shaft ; and beyond him , in the corner , gear ( a shield , a helmet ) . |
| 21 | In many cases the variations are really a succession of short , separate pieces based on the same series , each piece having a specific character , contrasting with the others , but stylistically unified with them . |
| 22 | The government plans to establish twenty City Technology Colleges with private industry footing a substantial proportion of the bill and being involved in college policy-making . |
| 23 | In reviewing their general economic policies and prospects , the finance ministers noted that economic growth had slowed down to more sustainable levels in several countries ; overall growth prospects remained good , with strong investment providing a major stimulus to their economies ; inflation remained contained but still required vigilance , and external imbalances had been reduced , albeit unevenly . |
| 24 | Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk . |
| 25 | The idea of each institution forming a coherent academic community seems to have little purchase in reality . |
| 26 | Introducing the broad outlines of an economic programme marking a new direction for Brazil , Haddad said on Dec. 31 that the fight against inflation , currently running at an annualized rate of about 1,500 per cent , took second place to plans to improve living standards by doubling and possibly quadrupling the minimum wage and creating 4,000,000 new jobs over the next two years through selective economic development . |
| 27 | On the far slope of the valley a troop of Red Lancers cantered through a wheat field , each horse leaving a straight trail of crushed plants . |
| 28 | The grammar consisted of 200 context-free rules with each rule having an associated probability . |
| 29 | Once more among his Party faithful in Nuremberg in September 1938 , his proclamation contained the usual cliché about the infant Nazi Party beginning the fight against the greatest enemy threatening the German people , international Jewry , and a few days later , still at the Party Rally , he attempted to justify Germany 's attempts to rid itself of its Jews by the stereotype reference to an over-populated country . |
| 30 | Initially he tested preferred direction of movement for each cell using a simple stimulus and then tested again using the double grating patterns . |