Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove along the empty country roads , then passed through a couple of small , sleepy villages , the soft golden stone of the houses reflecting the warm sunlight . |
| 2 | Statistical aggregates suggesting an inexorable logic to Labour 's advance in the 1920s disguise considerable reversals in certain localities and unexpected increases in others ( Savage 1987 Ch 8 ) . |
| 3 | Taking a booking and issuing a personalised ticket now takes just one minute compared with up to 10 minutes using a manual system . |
| 4 | Subsequently anterior and posterior abdominal scans were obtained at 40 , 120 , and 240 minutes using a large field of view gamma camera fitted with a low energy high resolution collimator and interfaced to a Research Machines Nimbus microcomputer . |
| 5 | Ideally , strategies using an economics-based approach to air pollution control would provide financial incentives for emission sources to pursue the most cost-effective means for reducing pollution ( Anderson et al. , 1977 ; Magat , 1982 ; Rosencranz , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | And , as if to emphasise the difficulties that any prevention programme has to face , you had only to walk through any exit to find little groups enjoying a quiet cigarette . |
| 7 | For example , the well-established tradition of ‘ community studies ’ , which involves a researcher or a team of researchers using a wide variety of methods to study a whole community , has been producing work in both Britain and the USA almost continuously since the 1920s . |
| 8 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 9 | I remember my mother , who was an accomplished knitter , spending many hours knitting a yellow jersey from this yarn for my sister . |
| 10 | In addition there are three groups waging an armed struggle against the government on behalf of the black minority , the most important of which is the Forces de libération africaine de Mauritanie ( FLAM — African Liberation Forces of Mauritania ) [ see also pp. 37798-99 ] . |
| 11 | It is something altogether stronger to assert that the unemployment rate can only deviate from U * ; as a result of the monetary ( and fiscal ? ) authorities catching the private sector unawares . |
| 12 | Sgt John Grainger , community relations officer at Bishop Auckland police , said three builders using a blue van called at the home of an elderly person in the town , telling her she needed work on the roof and quoting £300 . |
| 13 | The satiety sensation was recorded after the meal and every hour for six hours using the same kind of visual analogue scale with ‘ empty stomach ’ =0 and ‘ full ’ =100 . |
| 14 | On June 17 European Community ( EC ) industry ministers approved proposals allowing the German government to subsidize eastern German shipbuilding yards until December 1993 by up to 36 per cent of estimated turnover after restructuring ( the usual EC maximum being 9 per cent ) . |
| 15 | In previous studies on the morphogenesis of colonic adenomas in FAP cases using a complete serial sectioning technique , we found that adenomas begin to develop in the proliferative compartment of the lower crypts in the form of atypical epithelial clusters , ‘ buds of ademoa ’ . |
| 16 | For example , we have some wonderful cast chimney-piece ornaments reflecting the popular taste of the time — Dick Turpin , Uncle Tom and Babes in the Wood . |
| 17 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 18 | God — sniff — he dashed down and burnt his fingers yanking the smoking toast from under the grill . |
| 19 | McMahon and Greene first considered the effect of running surfaces using a mathematical model which depicted a runner 's legs as a rack and-pinion element linked to a spring and shock absorber . |
| 20 | Many analysts discounted the drop and pointed to other signs suggesting a strengthening manufacturing sector , including continued expansion of industrial production . |
| 21 | ( ii ) Disaggregate embryos ( up to early blastocysts ) or cell clumps in calcium-free media or 0.9% sodium citrate , air dry , fix with 70% ethanol and count the nuclei using a fluorescent microscope equipped with appropriate light source and filters . |
| 22 | And rules prohibiting the commercial use of some products that the plant was designed to produce have not been rescinded . |
| 23 | In Britain and America , there has been a greater variety of attitudes reflecting a wider diversity of theological stances . |
| 24 | They have been adopted by the Kite Society who undertook to organise a Rokkaku League for 1987 in the UK , coupled with a supplementary challenge for solo flyers using a smaller Sanjo . |
| 25 | You should repeat each test at least ten times using a different animal of the same kind for each test . |
| 26 | He climbed and saw three Germans circling a lone SE and firing at it . |
| 27 | There is no place for surgical scrub solutions or other antiseptic solutions , as they damage the cells of the wound as well as those in the blood and other natural cells and secretions helping the normal process of repair . |
| 28 | We will continue to design and manufacture our products using the latest technology and materials the U.S.A. has to offer . |
| 29 | Depending on technical arguments , the conference will decide on a spacing for satellites using the same frequency that could be anywhere between 4° and 10° . |
| 30 | ‘ At a general meeting held in Edinburgh today solicitors representing the fourteen Property Centres throughout Scotland agreed that contrary to recent statements in the Press there is no insurmountable difficulty in getting mortgages for clients who wish to purchase a house at the present time . ’ |