Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 And sometimes this fits the ethnographic facts in a quite straight-forward way .
2 Charlie rejoins the shouted conversation in pidgin French and Lingala .
3 When the change has been scheduled , a copy of the Change Control Form will be sent to the Change Coordinator who records the following information in the Changes Log :
4 B. S. Johnson 's collection of memoirs records the great variety in the treatment meted out by hosts — from kindness and generosity to unimaginable cruelty — and how , above all , the behaviour of inner-city children that so horrified Women 's Institute moralisers was frequently a natural and adaptive response to the emotional trauma of family separation and to the strangeness of country life .
5 This technique records the exact points in the sentence which the reader fixates , and the time of each fixation .
6 We , and others , recommend that a sample should be obtained after one hour for both routes and are pleased to receive one at all , for it immediately involves the medical microbiologist in the care of the patient , and close cooperation is important .
7 Started by Pauline Jaricot at the age of 17 Now involves the whole Church in helping the world
8 Further tests of GR are described in Chapter 8 : one involves the anomalous precession in the orbits of Mercury and of the binary pulsar 1913+16 , another concerns delays of planetary radar reflections passing near the Sun , and finally there is the gravitational lensing of a quasar image by galactic matter .
9 Later in the same decade , when British filmmakers had lost their interest in international affairs , the same actor , George Cole , plays the inadequate gang-leader in Too Many Crooks ( 1959 ) , a film whose insights into the cold realities of contemporary marriage derives from the story of a kidnapped wife who plots revenge when her husband shows himself less than interested in paying over her ransom .
10 The course of Hornblower 's love for the forthright ( and fictional ) sister of the noble Wellesleys , developed through his uneasy , self-tormenting thoughts , plays the central part in the novels demanded by their romantic tone and structure ; in the way the two proud individuals adjust to an intimacy which disturbs their essential need for privacy of character , in Hornblower 's emotional vacillations when in perilous circumstances he meets Mane de Graçay again , his behaviour and musings are consistent with his given character .
11 Mathesius ( quoted in Firbas , 1974 : 17 ) compares English and Czech in this respect and concludes that in English , the grammatical principle ( i.e. syntax ) plays the leading role in the hierarchy of word order principles and that ‘ English differs from Czech in being so little susceptible to the requirements of FSP as to frequently disregard them altogether ’ .
12 This licence plays the same part in relation to seamen 's canteens as a licence granted under Part It of the Act in relation to licensed premises .
13 Meanwhile the left hand plays the same rhythms in the opposite order .
14 The 1st oboe plays the top line in the preceding four bars , and gives place to the 1st clarinet on reaching the aforesaid high F. Note the smooth movement of the horns in the chord-passage , and the introduction of the 2nd clarinet on the low E to complete the harmony at the sixth bar from the end .
15 As noted in chapter 4 , this has not transpired ; instead the Treasury plays the dominant role in budget provision .
16 The same actor , Tom Courtenay , plays the Borstal boy in Tony Richardson 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) who loses the race he 's trained for as a way to spite the governor .
17 The second violin plays the inverted melody in A , and the first violin the inverted accompaniment in E♭ .
18 Rye grass is coarse and flat-leaved , and fulfils the same function in a sward as petrol-like grain spirit in cheap Scotch whisky .
19 It seems that type ( a ) concerns cases where more than one consonant precedes the weak syllable in question , and type ( b ) where there is only one consonant preceding .
20 He moves the court from Agra to Delhi and builds the Red Fort in the centre of the new Shahjehanabad .
21 Figure 2 summarizes the overall trend in both the initial and the maximum heats of CO adsorption for several potassium precoverages .
22 Thus do evokes the taking place in time — in the stretch of time in the past or non-past required to realize it — of the event denoted by the infinitive .
23 Who was the , who , who do you thinks the best dance in your class ?
24 But he displays the same choosiness in this area too : ‘ I find most of the things on television are pretty repetitive .
25 That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes .
26 The phase circuits are excited by the supply voltage , which produces the rated current in an excited phase when the motor is stationary , and the phase currents flow via the diode D , which is forward-biased by the supply voltage .
27 This part of the grape 's flesh produces the richest juice in terms of sugar , acids and trace elements , and goes to make the highest quality Champagnes .
28 ‘ Sentence first , verdict afterwards , ’ cries the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland .
29 The ‘ Frederic ’ denotes the German infusion in the family — his great-grandfather was German — and on his mother 's side there is the Scottish influence .
30 Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles .
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