Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A number of steps can be taken to speed up processing , each depending on some different method of handling the search . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All behaviour , no matter how apparently irrational or senseless it may seem , is logical and purposeful according to some particular viewpoint . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I have a good business partner but I still find it hard dealing with this 365 days a year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I forbade all meddling with these infernal machines , ’ said Nisodemus . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | • What opportunities is 1992 creating in each European financial centre ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From this very brief review of second language learning , it can be seen that BSL acquirers have a great deal in common with those struggling with any spoken language . |
| 17 | But the real bombshell was busy occurring on that other ‘ minority ’ station , BBC2 . |
| 18 | They would accept directives such as those calling for fewer part-time workers , and would welcome a 48-hour rule . |
| 19 | Even in going concerns , the ghosts come back to haunt you through the flotsam of old files and folders , especially those emanating from some long-forgotten ‘ project ’ . |
| 20 | Er and obviously if we 've got thousands of those coming to each three regional offices we 've got to find some method of distributing them , we do n't want them left in the office do we ? |
| 21 | It is also that those working within those other information- ( or knowledge- ) based areas have ambitions to command the heights too ! ( e.g. from the accounting area [ Estrin ( 1987 ) ] ) . |
| 22 | At the heart of the 1982 dispute was a so-called pay factor for public services of 4 per cent , which was intended as a marker for pay rises to those working in all public services . |
| 23 | We might try to approach an answer to this question by first looking at some specific features that characterise the identifying references to different kinds of topics of discourse . |
| 24 | Similarly , our melodies are our own , but they may be striking or mediocre according to some hidden talent or the lack of it . |
| 25 | The plans would have to be altered accordingly and that meant first attending to some unfinished business at Lausanne station . |
| 26 | On this occasion Mr David Butler will have an even finer collection of predictions to record in his book about the election than he did in 1970 , when almost every distinguished political correspondent of the time echoed Peter Jenkins of the Guardian in asking ‘ Why is Labour winning with such apparent ease ? ’ , just before Ted Heath won by a majority of 43 . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been on the Common looking for little green men has it ? |
| 28 | So you should have space for something sweet smelling outside those big patio doors |
| 29 | Lipsey ( 1960 ) , to provide the analytical underpinning for this astonishing statistical regularity . |
| 30 | She began thinking about the possibility of at last talking to some other female about it all — not Alison , because she was the maternal type — but perhaps a professional . |