Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A plant of noble proportions producing numerous stems each consisting of a large shiny green leaf and a leafy bract from which a spike of soft blue flowers emerges . |
| 2 | On the basis of these standards , SCOTVEC is creating a new series of awards in training and assessing , each consisting of a single unit . |
| 3 | He also understood what few canvassers of the more earnest sort admit , even to themselves : that canvassing in a parliamentary election is not supposed to change electors ' minds . |
| 4 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 5 | This information is broadly of two kinds — that relating to the education authority 's policy and arrangements , and that relating to the individual school . |
| 6 | This implies splitting up the data for each time period ( each day , say ) , into that relating to the individual outstanding futures contracts . |
| 7 | For larger molecules it is not possible to disentangle the information about the electronic ground state from that relating to the excited state . |
| 8 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | Instead , properties would be placed in one of eight broad bands each relating to a national average value . |
| 10 | Of course , making an unauthorized copy of an Esperanto– English dictionary would infringe copyright , if only that subsisting in the typographical arrangement . |
| 11 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 12 | Now if we look forward through time we see regular bands like this occurring through the mid sixteen hundred to sixteen forty , on up into sixteen sixty sixteen eighty still broad regular bands , conditions very conducive to coral growth , and in the early seventeen hundreds on up into the mid seventeen hundreds one can see a remarkable change in the character of the growth bands . |
| 13 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 14 | The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed . |
| 15 | ‘ See you later , ’ said Sheila , already half listening to the next question . |
| 16 | But instead she sat , staring into space , transfixed with a sudden heavy tiredness , half listening to the steady , rhythmic beat of the music down below , wondering about Luke , remembering Mark . |
| 17 | I was very kindly invited to attend the opening at noon by the Princess Royal , but alas I could not manage this owing to a previous luncheon engagement . |
| 18 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 19 | Society makes a different response to old men and to old women , sometimes resulting in the greater denigration of older women ; this takes some combating on a personal and a professional level ( Sontag , 1978 ; Macdonald and Rich , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | There was no question of this amounting to a statutory contempt as proceedings were not ‘ active . ’ |
| 21 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | Within the cathedral is a collection of early and medieval carved stones , some belonging to a previous monastery . |
| 23 | More simply , this striving for the clear assertion of ‘ fundamentals ’ is an age-old and pandemic aspect of humanity : the striving for certainty and predictability . |
| 24 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 25 | The promised money fails to appear because , says the broker , of some failing in the would-be borrower . |
| 26 | In countries like Colombia and Venezuela , there has been some tinkering with the traditional agrarian system , but on the other hand , Cuba has experienced a complete restructuring of the agrarian sector . |
| 27 | Within the Lateran palace itself , a further ceremony with two seats of porphyry ( one of St Peter and one of St Paul ) signified the double apostolic foundation and the jurisdictional and magisterial power of the pope , demonstrated by his half lying and half sitting across the two . |
| 28 | She was half laughing , half melting under the determined onslaught of his caresses . |
| 29 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 30 | Delaney staggered over , half falling into the vacated chair . |