Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
| 2 | The objectivity of the internal auditor is seen in terms of each auditor having an objective attitude of mind and being able to exercise judgement , express opinions and present recommendations with impartiality . |
| 3 | On 30 November Edmund died , Cnut had little difficulty persuading the English to ignore the claims of his relatives , and the country was re-united under his rule . |
| 4 | unc Once you have learnt this method you will have little difficulty solving the following equation . |
| 5 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 6 | Other simple experiments use the bending of a beam or the torsion of a cylinder , in each case verifying a quasi-linear relation between load and deflection and an attendant modulus ( see Chap . |
| 7 | The encoder is used to make changes to presets , parameters and values and it ‘ clicks ’ through 360 degrees , with each click changing the selected parameter by one step . |
| 8 | In many cases the variations are really a succession of short , separate pieces based on the same series , each piece having a specific character , contrasting with the others , but stylistically unified with them . |
| 9 | The idea of each institution forming a coherent academic community seems to have little purchase in reality . |
| 10 | On the far slope of the valley a troop of Red Lancers cantered through a wheat field , each horse leaving a straight trail of crushed plants . |
| 11 | The grammar consisted of 200 context-free rules with each rule having an associated probability . |
| 12 | Initially he tested preferred direction of movement for each cell using a simple stimulus and then tested again using the double grating patterns . |
| 13 | Now it 's blown up into a dispute between the two , with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress . |
| 14 | The use of the ‘ half-peace ’ ( with each side making a major concession which left neither side fully satisfied ) and of the truce were proof of the failure of military pressure to force a final settlement of the war , one way or the other , through diplomatic negotiation . |
| 15 | This season no great turn around was expected : for the first time the Show 's organisers had had some difficulty filling the sixty-four available booths . |
| 16 | I have some difficulty understanding the hon. Lady 's objections to this policy . |
| 17 | This quake happened in Tangshan province in north-east China and is the only one ever known to have occurred in a really densely populated area , in this case involving the major cities of Peking and Tientsin . |
| 18 | This has become something of an art form , with some prisoners acquiring an enviable reputation for transforming prison fare into spicy and original ethnic dishes . |
| 19 | We were asked earlier in another case involving a young boy if we would be prepared to help . |
| 20 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
| 21 | I was disappointed that the Home Secretary spent so much of his time this afternoon outlining a few examples of asylum seekers who have been proved to be lying . |
| 22 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 23 | He 's got too many fingers in too many pies ok one groups making , one groups making a million pound a day , where another groups loosing a million pound a day or loosing two million pound a day , if you 've got too many fingers in too many pies |
| 24 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 25 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 26 | Count the number of words in this sentence using the –1 key . |
| 27 | ( In 1874 , whilst at her favourite residence at Osborne in the Isle of Wight , Queen Victoria made a number of trips to the post office at nearby Whippingham where she would stay for some hours comforting a dying deaf woman , Mrs. Elizabeth Tuffield , nee Groves . |
| 28 | The position on partial demolition , however , remained uncertain after the House of Lords case , and by degrees various church bodies began to put forward proposals for partial demolition , in some cases leaving no more than a facade or church hall , arguing that , as part of the site was to remain in ecclesiastical use , no permission to demolish was required . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The decision to drop the case against him was made by Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills , after the collapse of another trial involving the same company , Plasser Railway Machinery . |