Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [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 | We were asked earlier in another case involving a young boy if we would be prepared to help . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Count the number of words in this sentence using the –1 key . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This fragmentation following the 1986 restructuring produced a lack of co-ordination and an absence of overall control . |
| 24 | MIDDLESEX COUNTY CRICKET CLUB REVIEW 1991–92 — Another club lamenting a disappointing 1991 , though not financially . |
| 25 | THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARIAN , which will be a computerised databank of material about the Members of the European Parliament , is designed to fill this gap using the latest in information handling technology . |
| 26 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |
| 27 | Figure 2 shows the results of some work using an atomic beam containing all the stable isotopes of the element samarium ( atomic number , or number of protons , 62 ) . |
| 28 | We answer this question using a statistical diagnostic test ( see Section 3 ) and also by comparing the estimated reservation wages predicted by this model with the post-unemployment wages reported by our sample members . |
| 29 | The Nuffield study on the direction of social mobility from the 1930s is considered , together with the latest updating of this work following the 1983 election . |
| 30 | Manjrekar , another Indian enduring a disappointing series , was also gone before the close , which found India exactly 100 behind at 45 for 2 ( Sidhu 15 , Vengsarkar * ) . |