Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the Gaijin rear Jotan 's five hundred were a solid mass cutting off the line of retreat . |
| 2 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | The embroidery , a pattern of golden lily-flowers dotted here and there , each one at a fair distance from the other , would be confined to the shoulder band and to a broad sash fastening at the back in as large a bow as Miss Dallam would tolerate , its ends falling to the hem of her skirt . |
| 4 | IBM 's Pennant Systems last week announced the extension of its Advanced Function Printing into the AIX/6000 environment and WISIWYG viewing on PS/2 screens under Windows . |
| 5 | Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street . |
| 6 | Notice the narrow snout extending beyond the mouth which helps it to seek out small rodents , reptiles and invertebrates . |
| 7 | Fifthly , in the arena of foreign affairs , Hitler was commonly regarded as an upholder and a fanatical defender of Germany 's just rights , a rebuilder of the nation 's strength , a statesman of genius , and for the most part , it seems , not as a racial imperialist warmonger working towards a ‘ war of annihilation ’ and limitless German conquest . |
| 8 | This sort of task is very common in process control situations where the operator often makes a preliminary three-way decision corresponding to the worldwide system of red , amber and green traffic lights . |
| 9 | He laughed , a warm , comfortable sound that reminded her of homely , rustic things like sleek cattle and woolly sheep grazing on a West Country hillside . |
| 10 | IF THE promises are kept , the fourth Conservative term will see private operators competing on the railway network , a huge road-building programme to ease congestion and further moves to increase choice for airline passengers , all underscored by a commitment to transport safety . |
| 11 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 12 | Dynamical variables , such as energy , momentum and position , have been successfully introduced into the formalism as hermitean operators acting on the vector space of the states of motion . |
| 13 | A FORMER spokesman for the EC Commission today blamed the British Government for the lack of European funding coming to the province . |
| 14 | In this chapter we examine a number of different forms of short-term contract working in a number of different sectors . |
| 15 | How far these findings apply to short-term contract working in the manufacturing sector is the subject of the following section . |
| 16 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 17 | This suggests that one priority is a general initial training supplemented by training in more specific skills relating to the presenting difficulties of the children being supported . |
| 18 | In addition to an expansion of existing services in the financial sector , many more services are now available ( e.g. professional drain clearing through the franchise operation ‘ Dynorod ’ ) . |
| 19 | Mediated enforcement through intermediatory , quasi-governmental bodies such as the BBC and the Bank of England and quasi-non-governmental such as the Press Council bring advantages of administrative economy and reduced political responsibility attaching to the government : ‘ It is the essence of these organizations , therefore , that their relationships to state authority remains ill-defined ’ ( Winkler , 1977 , p. 54 ) . |
| 20 | Table 13 outlines the actions farmers thought they would take in the event of political or economic change leading to a drop in farm returns . |
| 21 | Studies of benthic foraminifera ( sensitive indicators of oxygenation ) through the laminated intervals show no evidence for any increase in species characteristic of a low oxygen environment , but rather a decrease in tapered cylindrical and infaunal forms attesting to the impenetrability of the meshwork . |
| 22 | Yet terms such as ‘ resources ’ , ‘ employee , ’ or ‘ structural alteration ’ may be capable of having a spectrum of possible meanings depending upon the overall scope and policy of the legislation . |
| 23 | A gang of workmen put a fence up across the private lane leading to the house in Beaconsfield . |
| 24 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 25 | It was between Peter Unsworth 's ‘ Escape ’ , a print of a volcanic geyser erupting behind a climber scrambling out of the crater and A D Nicoll 's haunting picture of ‘ Footprints ’ disappearing over pristine sand dunes towards distant , mysterious mountains . |
| 26 | Beneath him the woman 's face was pale and passive , her arms bent above her head , her rich hair spilling over the pillow . |
| 27 | For the training of teachers in art , further education colleges have traditionally offered the one-year full-time course leading to the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education ( Art Education ) , formerly the Art Teacher 's Diploma ( ATD ) or Certificate ( ATC ) . |
| 28 | It comprises a tractor-mounted injection unit in the field which is fed through an umbilical hose running from the storage point . |
| 29 | But why was the capitalist mode of production more efficient than feudal landownership , and why does this generate social and political change leading to a new power structure in society ? |
| 30 | Sufficient knowledge and experience exists within Admin to keep normal operations going on the Altos , and to deal with operational problems as they might arise . |