Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continuing through the scattered little climatic resort the road leads to the Heiligenschwendi Klinik , a large hospital originally treating respiratory diseases but in more recent times catering for a wide variety of patients . |
| 2 | Even the payment of players was regulated in such a way as to prevent clubs competing in a free market for talent . |
| 3 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |
| 4 | Half an hour later he came back , his yellow teeth flashing in a confident cockney smile . |
| 5 | And you do n't have to spend hours struggling with a awkward pins while you get hot over the collar . |
| 6 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 7 | MADONNA , EMF , GEORGE MICHAEL , LISA STANSFIELD and SEAL are among artists contributing to a new AIDS benefit LP . |
| 8 | For example , if the business is heavily dependent on numerous long-term contracts , a purchaser may decide to investigate the contracts equating to a specified percentage of the turnover of the business plus one or two minor contracts . |
| 9 | Barn owls nesting in a small cave in Somerset ( see opposite ) produced a bone assemblage of 5161 bones from 113 prey individuals ( see p. 96 and Fig. 4.1 ) . |
| 10 | He spent months recovering in a private clinic in Bordeaux . |
| 11 | While I was shaving , peacefully surveying my baggy eyes , thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore , and ever-deepening wrinkles , I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair . |
| 12 | In Scotland , there are 580,000 homes consisting of a single adult over 16 . |
| 13 | The cry by 1901 was for educated men ‘ of good social standing ’ to become ministers : ‘ Such men … are more needed now than before Board Schools provided hearers whose improved education demands preaching of a higher order than formerly . ’ |
| 14 | Critical Path Analysis is a computer programme into which variables relating to a particular project are fed . |
| 15 | If there are special risks relating to a particular transaction which are not brought out in the Risk Warning Notice , these must be specifically disclosed . |
| 16 | Laura Wyndham 's deep sapphire-blue eyes sparkled with amusement , her lips widening into a broad , wry smile as she entered the large living-room of the penthouse apartment . |
| 17 | So look at the pattern , count the maximum number of marked squares occurring in a vertical line and then double that to calculate the effect of the double-length light . |
| 18 | He was a shrivelled , runtish creature with fierce little eyes glinting from a pallid , skull-like face . |
| 19 | Adair argues that any working situation produces three sets of needs for the people involved and therefore effective leadership is determined by the variables operating in a given situation : |
| 20 | A firm such as Cheshire Restaurants operating within a limited geographical area and with a standardized menu ought to be able to derive two important advantages from adopting a centralized production process : |
| 21 | This is a valuable addition to any Vietnam library ; but readers looking for a melodramatic ‘ military thriller ’ should look elsewhere . |
| 22 | There is an element of desperation in this ( ageing vampiric lefties looking for a radical fix from the last sexual sub-culture left in town ) . |
| 23 | You do n't believe all that rubbish about eyes meeting across a crowded room , and destiny and stuff , do you ? " |
| 24 | A cat lay outside the front door , one of its eyes protruding in a grotesque bubble with the iris leering darkly from its rim . |
| 25 | However , although phase space volume on average contracts in a dissipative system , so that trajectories passing through a large volume of phase space end up passing through a smaller volume , this does not mean that distance ( or separation ) is also contracting . |
| 26 | Like all the best work by social anthropologists it has at its core the very detailed study of the network of relationships operating within a single very small-scale community . |
| 27 | Now in its fifth year , the event has always been a scalesman 's nightmare producing winning weights ranging between a colossal 92lb to 60lbs . |
| 28 | For example , two-dimensional animals living on a one-dimensional earth would have to climb over each other in order to get past each other . |
| 29 | The streets grew narrower , every doorway seemed to offer goods , there were wooden booths in small squares dappled with shade , selling pottery and saddles built on wooden frames , then the cool blue and green tiled courtyard of a mosque , with voices chanting on a high-pitched note . |
| 30 | The aim of her survey , of 2000 schoolchildren in four schools ranging from a large inner-city comprehensive to as single-sex public school , was to find out how children perceived the idea of ‘ fairness ’ . |