Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it worth insuring your computer or taking out a separate contract with a third-party maintenance company ? |
| 2 | What is a humby An erection on public transport , an irritating noise whilst driving a car or humming up the vagina ? |
| 3 | Of course , we may forget old lessons and we certainly need to keep in practice to maintain our performance levels in certain types of skill ( especially psycho-motor skills — like playing a musical instrument or carrying out a laboratory procedure ) . |
| 4 | ‘ It has proved reliable , and the fact that it is four-wheel drive is very handy if you 're coping with a greasy slipway or launching off a beach , ’ says Peaks . |
| 5 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 6 | The Commission provides guidance on certain of the services or costs they wish reviewed ; for example , in introducing a higher proportion of civilians into the police force or boarding out a higher proportion of children in care . |
| 7 | A player landing on a Point Of Order square must decide whether they want an Aye or No before picking a card and carrying out the instructions on the card ( for example — ‘ David Owen backs you , lose 50 votes ’ ) . |
| 8 | In all 15 sign languages HELP was signed with the right hand lifting and moving forward the left hand , forearm or elbow . |
| 9 | Our most up to date probing of Intel Corp 's P5 or Pentium architecture — given that the company is sending different messages to different parts of the industry — has the processor running at only two thirds of its promised speed and needing both a heat sink and fan to dissipate the heat it is producing . |
| 10 | Initial priorities would be projects strengthening the infrastructure , privatization , reforming the financial sector , developing a productive and competitive private sector , restructuring industry , encouraging direct foreign investment and cleaning up the environment . |
| 11 | Libya rejected the USA 's criticism , saying that the planes were for self-defence and asking how the USA could justify its military supplies to Israel . |
| 12 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 13 | The picture showed a stocky man with a shock of white hair and the typical Umbrian moon-face , wearing a chequered shirt open at the neck and holding up a newspaper . |
| 14 | Even the rain no longer seemed fresh : it congealed in the sullied air , splattering into filthy stinking puddles , hammering the roof and churning up the packed mud until it was slushy and loose . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew because it 's got a band of those black and white checks across the bonnet and the roof and running down the back . |
| 16 | This is a spooning cheese and should be served by removing the top crust and scooping out the paste with a spoon — from the retailer 's point of view it is quite difficult to persuade customers that the cheese is as it should be . |
| 17 | However , if a cell has too much cholesterol , it can be removed by an HDL particle colliding with the cell and picking up the cholesterol that is excess to requirements . |
| 18 | But before we do , there are one or two more things that the Creation 6 program can do for us regarding visualising the actual knitted fabric and seeing how the design is treated by the console on receiving the computer information . |
| 19 | So step two becomes , probably , reversing that vote and inserting instead a further amendment to the bill allowing for the social issue to be addressed , in line with the earlier decision of the House , after the treaty is ratified . |
| 20 | Michael Druiett as the Herald , formally introducing the piece and explaining how the smell-cards ( courtesy of Givenchy ) will work , gets a winning tone of voice from the very start . |
| 21 | In the present study we go beyond this result by making controlled B I -B II transitions involving most of the dinucleotide junctions of the dodecamer and discussing both the energetic and conformational aspects of such transitions . |
| 22 | The spectre of re-ignited conflict inside Israel , with Palestinian sorrow and fury outside , threatening to escalate violence and putting back the chances of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue still further . |
| 23 | The train puffed to a stop ; only five passengers alighted , and the only male among them a tall young man , his hair so fair that from a distance it appeared almost white , waved to them before turning back to the carriage and lifting out a case . |
| 24 | I got half a dozen drunks and three women dressed as Mother Christmas and put them on a truck and we drove round the West End on the busiest shopping day of the year playing loud jazz and bunging up the traffic . |
| 25 | One reason for resistance to the new paradigm was the sheer impossibility of convincing geologists in the traditional way : by convening on an outcrop and hammering out the evidence . |
| 26 | The hotel was a shell , the roof having collapsed completely , but a few yards of the verandah ceiling remained intact and under it I spent the most wretched night of my life , standing in a dry corner , listening to the drenching rain and howling wind and breathing in the acrid fumes of the recent fire . |
| 27 | ‘ Your lot are slinging up tower-block hotels all round the coast and stamping out the olive groves . |
| 28 | Marjorie and Bill were left to cope with their own personal loss while putting on a brave face for each other . |
| 29 | A BOY aged 14 has appeared before a court in Crewe on a charge of attempting to rape a 92-year-old spinster while carrying out a burglary . |
| 30 | In the early years of the reign of Henry VIII the Council , benefiting from the inexperience of the new King , probably gained weight while pursuing much the same business as before . |