Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durham champions Northallerton also gave a spirited performance taking 11th position as favourites Barnsley and Starlets clinched the glory . |
| 2 | The information on the levels of the three main air pollutants — ozone , nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide , will be published on a weekly basis starting next Monday . |
| 3 | The book opens with a narrative passage evoking first the scenes in a typical day early this century , leading up to the arrival of the first train at Craven Arms , and then a poignant shorter evocation of the way things looked shortly after the closure . |
| 4 | There was a fresh bottle sitting next to her . |
| 5 | This flexibility allows a typical student entering second year to have a choice of honours degree courses between Engineering disciplines or between Engineering and a science subject . |
| 6 | Faced with the prospect of partial closure if it ca n't convince its parent that it has a viable future serving third party customers , IBM France SA 's plant is energetically laying plans to exploit its skills in chip packaging , in particular IBM 's proprietary technology for surface-mounting chips on multi-layer ceramic substrates to create multi-chip modules . |
| 7 | Incidentally , I foresee a major problem looming next season . |
| 8 | AFTER a pre-tax loss rising last year from £4.7 million to £41.1 million , Clyde Petroleum yesterday asked its shareholders to provide a further £34.1 million through a one-for-four rights issue . |
| 9 | Staff at International Paint ( Gulf ) in Dubai attended a one-day course covering first aid and fire-fighting . |
| 10 | These materials draw in a two-stage process involving first , necking where the original spherulitic structure of the polymer is destroyed and a new fibrillar structure created ( see , for example , Peterlin 1979 ) and second , a post-neck taper-drawing process in which no appreciable further orientation takes place but during which the longitudinal Young 's modulus increases . |
| 11 | The company told Reuter that it will probably set up a new company employing NeXT technicians to develop high-speed workstations . |
| 12 | The company told Reuter that it will probably set up a new company employing NeXT technicians to develop high-speed workstations . |
| 13 | There 's an old lady living next door to what used to be the Armitage house ; she was there when Mrs Armitage was alive and Inez was her companion . ’ |
| 14 | The level to which noise needs to be reduced depends to some extent on the noise generated by the occupants : for , an elderly couple living next door to a young and lively family would complain about the noise from next door , but if the old people were replaced by another young and lively family , they would probably not find the noise excessive . |
| 15 | ‘ I was in an important business meeting last week and the telephone just kept on ringing and ringing with people wanting to talk about the club , ’ said Mr Corden . |