Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interactive Inc , Humboldt , South Dakota has filed to go public with an initial offer of up to 1.0m units , each consisting of one common share and a warrant for a second one ; net proceeds will be used to expand the company 's marketing and sales , develop new products , repay debt , and for working capital ; no target price given . |
| 2 | Also drawn in charcoal were two other features of religious importance : a group of five-pointed stars and a mystical two-line formula , each consisting of all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet — the ultimate anagram which , when rearranged , could quite literally be used to express all human knowledge and all experience . |
| 3 | If you split the firm up you will have a lot of small firms each producing at higher average cost , a waste of society 's resources . |
| 4 | A number of steps can be taken to speed up processing , each depending on some different method of handling the search . |
| 5 | When divided into two — stable residence consisting of council and owner occupied housing , and unstable consisting of private rented , lodging , and hostel accommodation and no fixed abode — 76 per cent of women lived in stable accommodation compared with 63 per cent of men . |
| 6 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 7 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested … in whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale ’ . |
| 8 | Those who argue that a universal definition of aggression is possible and even desirable are often interested in determining whether a universal human proclivity toward aggression exists , or whether the members of one society can be said to be ‘ more aggressive ’ than another according to some quantitative scale . |
| 9 | All behaviour , no matter how apparently irrational or senseless it may seem , is logical and purposeful according to some particular viewpoint . |
| 10 | Sometimes he would merely sit on the Government bench , half listening to some minor debate , half wrapping his mind round the backgrounds and appearances of different members . |
| 11 | By the end of the inquiry , he had cross-examined nearly every witness from either the nuclear industry or a government department and delivered vast reams of his own evidence on every subject covered , some amounting to several hundred pages of closely-typed script . |
| 12 | This may in turn have caused the forelegs of prosauropods ( the Triassic forerunners of sauropods ) to become more massive , stimulated as they were by the repeated dropping onto all fours when moving slowly . |
| 13 | After the introductory chapter on scepticism , the first part contains a chapter on the nature of knowledge and its relation to true justified belief , and another concentrating on one particular theory . |
| 14 | In order for this to work , the change from symmetry to broken symmetry must have taken place very slowly inside the bubble , but this is quite possible according to grand unified theories . |
| 15 | If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ? |
| 16 | thirty three going on thirty four ? |
| 17 | ‘ I have a good business partner but I still find it hard dealing with this 365 days a year . |
| 18 | There were three of them , each bulging with handwritten ice-vellum sheets . |
| 19 | Well smokers all clear or not I do n't know but th that even mentioned in that book Downham Reach and that talk about the Priory Farm where was cos that was all walking about all these smugglers at that time but the book I , the history I thought about do n't seem the same in the book now . |
| 20 | There is an uncertainty in the sense that we today observe the universe to be in a state of expansion , that is the most distant galaxies and clusters and galaxies are all receding from one another at a high speed , which actually increases as you look farther and farther away from us . |
| 21 | THANKS LARGELY to Doris Day , pop singers like Sandra Dee , Helen Shapiro and Connies Stevens and Francis , were sweetly feminine — nice girls , all looking for that one special guy , in their songs at least . |
| 22 | ‘ I forbade all meddling with these infernal machines , ’ said Nisodemus . |
| 23 | If we were all shouting at one another , the media would be here . |
| 24 | It was a lucid dream , with him walking down infinite identical corridors , all painted the same pale blue , all leading to endless identical doors . |
| 25 | There were never enough to go around , especially on the house where I was , where there were two other girls on the works and four girls on the gardens all coming in filthy dirty and wanting a bath . |
| 26 | Assuming that we wanted to explore the harmonic potential of a basic C major scale ( remember you can and should apply this approach to other scale types as well ! ) , the first step would be to play through the triads ( a suggested fingering with each maj chord voiced 1,5,1,3 , each min chord voiced 1,2,1 , ♭3 , and the diminished chord voiced 1 , ♭5,1 , ♭3 is given in fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | • What opportunities is 1992 creating in each European financial centre ? |
| 28 | The Ladies 60 age group brought home the highest honours : both Rita Lauder ( Hampshire & Isle of Wight ) — and Ruth Illingworth ( Essex ) reached the singles'' semi-finals , each losing to top-ranked American players , while Ruth , in a new partnership with Ann Williams ( Somerset ) , beat the numbers 1 and 2 seeded pairs to take the title at their first attempt . |
| 29 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 30 | Nobody will deny that point-to-pointing is a dangerous sport , but everything possible should be done to minimise the risks , and to cut the numbers of those competing in any one race would surely be a major step in reducing the chances of a serious accident . |