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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Mr Parsons had turned to stand with his back to the fire , the eternal male hogging the best place in the room . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was no coherent ideology embracing the entire middle-class , but there were two ideologies that subsumed its more active sectors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Technical harmonisation and standards developing standardisation the European level covering a wide range of products . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The strength of the West German mark in the last quarter of 1989 and first quarter of 1990 , following the Bundesbank 's increase in its discount and Lombard rates [ see p.37165 ] , was also attributed to political optimism surrounding the economic and monetary union of East and West Germany . |
| 19 | She comes into the room like a shy actress making a bad entrance , to find us poised round the door like actors on the set . |
| 20 | Barrows argued that geography should concentrate on the study of the association between man and environment , it should concentrate on themes which lead towards synthesis with an economic regional geography occupying a central place , but that specialized branches , including geomorphology , climatology and biogeography should be separated from the parent subject . |
| 21 | Teacher John Etherington and assistant bursar Derek Graham are to undertake a strenuous quadrathon involving a 1.25 mile swim , followed by a 56 mile cycle ride , four miles self-propelled in a wheelchair and a run of 13 miles . |
| 22 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | Incubation for 15 min at 37-C in 25 mg/ml trypsin and 10 mg/ml EDTA in Ca2 + -free M2 + 6 mg/ml BSA followed by extensive pipetting using a flame-polished micropipette has been found satisfactory for late 16-cell embryos and early blastocysts ( 13,25 ) . |
| 24 | White , beaten in four world and two UK finals , at long last lifted the game 's second most prestigious trophy following a 16–9 victory over defending champion John Parrott . |
| 25 | Dr Schwarz has suggested that the evidence points to the regional divergence becoming a clear trend only after 1770 , with falls in real wages in the 1760s being avoided only by some groups in Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 26 | The present study shows that the intraarterial injection of endothelin-1 increased tissue type plasminogen activator activity in the regional blood accompanying the mucosal injury in a time dependent manner . |
| 27 | Take a 15-storey building abutting a three-storey structure . |
| 28 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a popular story raising an important point . |
| 29 | Quite clearly , Brahms felt a particular empathy for the chamber medium , and each work is an unqualified masterpiece exploring a different aspect of the composer 's multi-faceted personality . |
| 30 | Pevsner 's book is pretty impossible : a German emigré creating a so-called national style . |