Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There by the light of an adjoining street lamp he clearly saw the figure of a station master or porter wearing a flat-topped regulation hat apparently waiting for a train . |
| 2 | In a number of cases , however , there may be a tendency to regard it , rather , as a sort of libation to the gods — a project or programme acquiring a certain added respectability by being evaluated , but with no deep-seated resolve on the part of its organisers to make any substantial organisational or financial investment in change ( after all to contemplate fundamental change to a primary programme once it is underway is an exceptionally costly business ) . |
| 3 | Geographically isolated and heavily policed because of the number of VIPs who live in the constituency , it is not an easy target for the gunman or bomber seeking a swift escape from his latest atrocity . |
| 4 | The funnel-shaped pits are constructed in dry soil or sand using a novel excavation technique . |
| 5 | The reduced appendages each consist of a limb-base or coxite bearing a distal stylus which is sometimes regarded as the vestige of the shaft of a typical walking limb but which may conceivable be a " coxal epipodite " homologous with the coxal styles of Symphylan or Machilid legs . |
| 6 | The component , system , whole car or initiative making the greatest contribution to furthering safety in cars |
| 7 | The item , system , process or initiative making the greatest contribution to reducing the impact of cars on the environment |
| 8 | The Contempt of Court Act 1981 does not help to resolve the general problem since it simply defines a ‘ court ’ as including ‘ tribunal or body exercising the judicial power of the State . ’ |
| 9 | In Hinduism ‘ Om ’ is the primal sound or vibration accompanying the creative process . |
| 10 | If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee . |
| 11 | The contrast with Stadtverkehr –m War–del the glossy German government publication with its wealth of imaginative ideas that were reviewed in Chapter Five , could hardly be greater.Whether dealing with residential areas , walking , cycling , public transport , or traffic calming the British manual is bereft of new ideas , cautious in tone and apparently oblivious to the revolution sweeping through Europe . |
| 12 | Design a poster or collage showing the following parables : |
| 13 | Wallers , masons , builders and slaters ; those engaged building and maintaining water races ; surface carters , and labourers who might one day find themselves cutting grass for the mine horses and shovelling tailings or road repairing the next — all fitted into the day-worker class . |
| 14 | Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home . |
| 15 | Model biles prepared with phosphatidylserine had a longer nucleation time ( 20 days ) than those prepared with phosphatidylethanolamine or phosphatidylcholine having the same fatty acid composition . |
| 16 | If you watch an effective policeman or nurse giving the same information to a row of people from different backgrounds , you will be surprised at the range and flexibility of the instinctive code switching . |
| 17 | It is therefore essential to examine the expert clause which should state who the expert is to be , whether : ( 1 ) a named individual ( see 9.3 ) ; or ( 2 ) a named firm or company ( see 9.3 ) ; or ( 3 ) the individual , firm or company holding a particular position ( see 9.4 ) ; or ( 4 ) a member of a particular profession or a holder of a particular academic or professional qualification ( see 9.5 ) ; and whether ( 5 ) there are any special criteria for the expert 's suitability ( see 9.6 ) . |
| 18 | 9.4 An individual , firm or company holding a particular position |
| 19 | The pattern is not uniform , though , with Dumfries and Galloway reporting a 50 per cent fall . |
| 20 | But then the cells at the tip begin to shoot out long filopodia which make contact with the wall and contract pulling the future gut further in . |
| 21 | So he 'd rushed to the field , catching a sun-dazed pony , scrambling onto the broad back , hair and scurf whitening the new trousers , cantering over the paddocks and clattering into the yard where Peter and Andrew were almost ready . |
| 22 | But however distinguished its history , Edinburgh very much sees itself as a University of the 1990s committed to research and teaching covering the hi-tech disciplines of the future , as well as disciplines rooted in the past . |
| 23 | But what one now sees belongs chiefly to the centuries of this book , the great church to the tenth and eleventh centuries , the atrium before it — though in form and function preserving the great courtyard of an early Christian basilica , where clergy and laity met before processing into the church for solemn eucharist — is of the early twelfth . |
| 24 | THE ACTORS march on to the stage of the New Victoria in Newcastle-under-Lyme as an Italian town band , with Chorus in a red hat and sash beating the bass drum . |
| 25 | Despite the warnings of Callaghan and Healey , the TUC at its conference in September 1977 voted for a return to ‘ unfettered collective bargaining ’ , with Jones and Scanlon taking the adverse view . |
| 26 | It was obvious that the latter had brought no great changes in the problems of poverty and inequality facing the working class in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |
| 28 | Here there was not the slightest evidence of ‘ religion and Communism making an excellent household together ’ , as Izvestiia now reported . |
| 29 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 30 | With Gimbert and Moscato making a disciplined if muted Championship debut , CHRIS THAU sought their side of the story . |