Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the defence ensuring a frustrating afternoon for the league 's leading scorer , Michelle Clark , the rest of the team were able to set up camp in the Wimbledon half . |
| 2 | A glimpse of the apprentice practising the basic technique of architectural drawing comes in A Laodicean ( 1881 ) , singled out by Hardy himself as having some biographical significance . |
| 3 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 4 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 5 | The variety underlying the superficial similarity of idiom is enormous , even within the work of a single composer . |
| 6 | All you need to do is cross the ridge separating the two villages and continue on to Day 11 . |
| 7 | In all the euphoria following the successful birth , and the tea- and sandwich-making with Mrs Chalk afterwards , she 'd gone quietly along with everyone 's air of respectful gratitude for Guy , who 'd saved the day , whisked Lucy to hospital , kept everyone calm and optimistic , loomed in the background like a rock of dependable strength . |
| 8 | Also , do n't forget that DOL is potentially a good managerial prospect … maybe a Strach-DOL partnership … that 'll be interesting … ‘ heard the one about the Irishman & the Scotsman managing a footbal team … ’ : - ) |
| 9 | All these Swiss cheeses are made in wheels , the retailer buying a wedge-shaped cut of the required size . |
| 10 | However , as the now-famous story purports , the evening after Nation had instructed his agent to say no to the Doctor Who offer , he and Tony Hancock had a serious disagreement , resulting in the writer catching the first train back to London the following morning , with no work , and a central heating system in his flat to pay for . |
| 11 | Mr. J.G.S. Gammell is to retire from the Board following the Annual General Meeting after 36 years of service . |
| 12 | The presence of cold icy particles in polar stratospheric clouds acts as the catalyst unlocking the harmful chlorine , rather than the composition of the particles themselves . |
| 13 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 14 | Staff at Drummond House with young children or grandchildren are being invited to enter a Royal Family quiz , with the winner providing the young child to present the Queen with a welcoming posy . |
| 15 | What is termed the crossed interpretation , with each part of the sentence manifesting a different sense , is prohibited . |
| 16 | Spend the afternoon exploring the many shops and galleries , or take a leisurely boat cruise . |
| 17 | With true Devon courtesy the miller abandoned his accounts and we spent the afternoon discussing the relative merits of apple and yew for pit wheel teeth . |
| 18 | In Rome , an advert for a laundry reads : ‘ Ladies , leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time . ’ |
| 19 | That was the day in October 1957 that Ken spent the afternoon rehearsing a new routine . |
| 20 | Her mum , having spent the afternoon fearing the worst , met Sally from school and started questioning her right away . |
| 21 | But now Len says that instead of the hospital putting the eleven thousand pounds raised towards a NEW laser , it spent the money updating an existing model it already had . |
| 22 | In the chaos following the Second World War the travel agent had some extraordinary assignments . |
| 23 | Opening the case containing a new guitar from Patrick Eggle is , for me , a trying experience . |
| 24 | FOUR men , two from Belfast , accused of conspiracy to murder a drug-dealer and a police informant were cleared at the Old Bailey after the prosecution dropped the case following a six-week trial costing nearly £1m . |
| 25 | For it will set aside a conviction whenever it appears unjust or unsafe to allow the verdict to stand because some failure has occurred in observing the conditions which , in the court 's view , are essential to a satisfactory trial , or because there is some feature of the case raising a substantial possibility that , either in the conclusion itself , or in the manner in which it has been reached , the jury may have been mistaken or misled . |
| 26 | ‘ being a person to whom a provisional licence to drive a motor vehicle had been granted ’ Is usually proved by the police officer in the case examining the current provisional licence . |
| 27 | An element of focus is provided , it is true , by the concept of the dominant , in the sense of the level of the text showing the highest degree of deformation . |
| 28 | Here were people from the field facing the same issues . |
| 29 | If such an advance is realized , it represents one more step in a progression in which the antidiscipline , that is , the field treating the next level of organization below the one under scrutiny , is partly replaced by the synthetic enterprise to which it gave rigour and impetus ( Wilson , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | Such applications were prefigured by Michael Frayn some 20 years ago in his novel The Tin Men which features a computer programmed to pray , so that its orisons might bring down divine favour in accordance with Christian teaching : the computer having no selfish motives , its disinterested sincerity can not be doubted . |