Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two main issues thought to have been on the agenda for Li 's visit were South Korea 's intention to apply for separate membership of the UN ( North Korea favoured the two Korean states sharing a single UN seat ) , and the growing pressure for the North Korean government to allow international inspection of its nuclear facilities , an issue at the heart of the current normalization talks between North Korea and Japan [ see below ] . |
| 2 | Henceforth socialist organisation in the universities was for many years weakened by division between ‘ socialist ’ — i.e. Communist-controlled or influenced-societies and Labour Clubs supporting the Labour Party . |
| 3 | The nights belonged to the several extremist groups demanding an independent Sikh state . |
| 4 | Clusters range in size from fairly restricted features such as Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic , to much more extensive volcanic groups covering a considerable area such as the Azores in the North Atlantic and the Galapagos Islands in the eastem Pacific . |
| 5 | GTE Corp 's GTE Telecommunication Services and Digital Equipment Corp have joined forces to develop the CloneDetector , a knowledge-based system to reduce clone fraud in the cellular industry : the system will automatically detect simultaneous calls using the same cellular telephone number but originating from multiple locations , or calls originating outside the normal geographic area used for a particular cellular telephone ; it will build a case for each instance of fraudulent use , prioritise the cases , and recommend the actions to be taken . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Conservative councillors have rounded on their Labour opponents saying the latest announcements will lead to complete chaos in the town centre . |
| 7 | A series of geological maps covering the buried marble area of north-west New Territories was published . |
| 8 | The series of twenty 1:5000 geological maps covering the buried marble area of north-west New Territories , produced by the BGS consultant , were published . |
| 9 | Cirrhilabrus labouti is a riot of crimson , scarlet , orange , mauve , purple , and white , forming strong and striking patterns ornamenting the entire body of this magnificent fish . |
| 10 | These experimental measures of intensity can be related to the wavefunctions for the upper and lower states using an integral known as the transition moment , Dif , which is of the form where ψi and ψf are the wavefunctions for the initial and the final states and M is the dipole moment operator , which can be obtained from symmetry tables . |
| 11 | There is redundant data-ink : each column repeats its one datum at least eight times counting the three visible verticals , the four sides of the top , and the height of each column 's shading . |
| 12 | In most other cases of weak syllables containing a close front unrounded vowel we can assign the vowel to the phoneme , as in the first syllable of ‘ resist ’ , ‘ inane ’ , ‘ enough ’ , the middle syllable of ‘ incident ’ , ‘ orchestra ’ , ‘ artichoke ’ , and the final syllable of ‘ swimming ’ , ‘ liquid ’ , ‘ optic ’ . |
| 13 | THE LIDs OVER the cannons ' eyes slid open as the pirogues approached ; the watch would have thought that he was only imagining the narrow prows breaking the black water , but the order had been given , ‘ Full alert ’ , and so the English sailor trusted his eyes and raised the alarm . |
| 14 | Together we spent many painstaking months refining the best features from all the entries into one package . |
| 15 | A former Spanish junior squash champion , he is one of a new breed of southern European drivers challenging the traditional domination of the Finns and Swedes . |
| 16 | After Khrushchev 's ouster in 1964 , his successors avoided the use of bold terms such as pereves ( preponderance ) or ravnovesie ( equilibrium ) which had been fashionable in the early sixties , and contented themselves with less specific formulations depicting the global correlation of forces ( sootnoshenie sil ) . |
| 17 | In this assay , activation of the serum-response element ( SRE ) -LacZ reporter gene is strictly dependent on the interaction between chimaeric proteins containing the serum-response factor ( SRF ) DNA-binding and the VP16 transactivation domains , respectively . |
| 18 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 19 | The drug distamycin-A is known to bind in the minor groove of d(A-T) rich sequences using the same hydrogen bond acceptor sites ( O -2 and N -3 ) as water , although other stabilising effects including electrostatic and van der Waals interactions are also important ( 18 ) . |
| 20 | I imagine it must have been a cypress tree since they prune the lower branches leaving a swordlike edge sticking up . |
| 21 | For the first time since it was shown at the Berlin Secession in 1902 , the National Gallery has reconstructed Edvard Munch 's ‘ The Frieze of Life ’ ( until 7 February 1993 ) , a loose association of forty or fifty pictures illustrating the important and highly autobiographical themes of love , anxiety and death , to which the artist makes a first reference in his correspondence in 1893 . |
| 22 | Fraser spent eleven months racing the British entry in last year 's America 's cup … his single-handed experience is rather less |
| 23 | The referendum had been scheduled for November but had been postponed at the request of the political parties following the transitional government 's evident difficulties in drawing up a voters ' register . |
| 24 | Ophioprium was defined as follows : hidden radial shields ; large tentacle pores armed by two or more tentacle scales one attached to the lateral arm plate the other to the ventral arm plate ; numerous oral papillae forming a continuous series with long slender spinelets which are associated with the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 25 | A family characterised by the disk covered with small plates usually completely concealed by a dense coating of granules in adult specimens ; the radial shields usually visible ; the oral papillae forming a continuous series with the apical papillae ; the second oral tentacle scale opens within the mouth slit ; the arm spines short may be numerous , and appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 26 | The features which appear to unite them are : the arm spines are short and usually appressed ; the arm spine articulation is usually simple , very rudimentary ; oral papillae forming a continuous series and usually either spine-like proximally becoming block-like or block-like throughout ; internally the peristomal plates are double and the genital plate articulates upon the radial shield by means of two condyles and one pit . |
| 27 | There are also informal rules of good play ( like ‘ castle early ’ ) and perhaps social rules governing the proper conduct of chess matches . |
| 28 | If approached by a predator , the crab confronts it with its outstretched claws bearing the stinging anemones , rather as primitive man might have held a wolf at bay by using a flaming torch . |
| 29 | His new position reflected the fact that the SHP , now his coalition partner , included 22 deputies representing a Kurdish party , the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , which had had its official recognition withdrawn . |
| 30 | An educational programme had been done and 12 hours training every two years was required to keep the licence . |