Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [v-ing] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , a chart showing an overall plan of study for , say the next nine months . |
| 2 | The trend of judge-made law may be set off by a case involving an atypical trade or may be located in a consumer transaction . |
| 3 | The first question posed in the Conforama case was whether provisions prohibiting the employment of workers on Sundays constituted a measure having an equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions within the meaning of article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 4 | It involved using a cannon to fire a harpoon carrying an explosive grenade . |
| 5 | The design is well drawn , but there are discrepancies between different renderings of the same floral device , ( for example , the " poised " and then " aligned " nature of the four-petalled device on a squared background , which lies next to a medallion containing an eight-petalled rosette ) . |
| 6 | For students who have already achieved a Standard Grade in Science at Grade 3 and who wish to progress in a specific science area it would be possible to construct a programme using an appropriate context with the modules : |
| 7 | IT IS a sad fact that some people seem to change in personality immediately they get behind the wheel of a car adopting an aggressive and impatient approach where every second seems to count . |
| 8 | Snarl of a car making an early |
| 9 | Wo n't get picked up as a suspected drunk-driver , he 'll look like a rep getting an early start . ’ |
| 10 | A cup from Locri ( fig. 111 ) with a satyr attacking an unperturbed maenad is by the Pistoxenos Painter , whose career seems to begin about the time of the Persian invasion , and one of whose earliest cups is the last to bear the name of Euphronios as potter . |
| 11 | It might have been a cat knocking an empty tumbler off the bar — except that they did n't keep a cat , and all the glasses had been washed up and put away before they went to bed . |
| 12 | The Agency also confirmed that technicians had initially delayed taking action , in the belief that a gauge showing an abnormal increase in radioactivity was giving false readings . |
| 13 | It must be designed for use in conjunction with a file containing an up-to-date collection of PPGs , MPGs and circulars , so that it can help quickly identify relevant policy statements for use in the preparation of responses to local planning authorities or in statements to public inquiries . |
| 14 | In a move sanctioning an earlier measure adopted in July by the IAEA 's board of governors , the conference voted overwhelmingly to condemn Iraq for violating its IAEA safeguards agreement and for obstructing the implementation of UN resolutions aimed at eliminating its non-conventional weapons stocks . |
| 15 | The air above the debris of a fire is sucked through a tube containing an absorbent solid to concentrate the sample . |
| 16 | Along with his wife , Catherine , Jon Edgson runs a business offering an innovative service for clients . |
| 17 | He led them into a room overlooking an attractive courtyard , with a paved area surrounded by shrubs . |
| 18 | It was held that the Ford Motor Company had applied the trade description ‘ new ’ since the car was supplied in response to a request containing an indirect indication of that description and , in the words of section 4(3) , it was ‘ reasonable to infer that the goods [ were ] supplied as goods corresponding to that trade description . ’ |
| 19 | The headship of the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is assigned by the Hebdomadal Council , on the recommendation of the Physical Sciences Board and of the General Board of the Faculties , for specified periods of not less than five years , to a person holding an established academic post in the department , who will usually be a professor or reader or the holder of such a title . |
| 20 | The rather dubious sources for these two modes of production explains the fact that the German and the Slavonic ( if there is one ) are characterized by a name demoting an ethnic or linguistic group and not a relation of production , as it the case for the capitalist mode of production . |
| 21 | A family came walking by — Mum and Dad with two kids , one licking an ice-cream and the other in a pushchair sucking an iced lolly , red sticky streaks running down its chin . |
| 22 | In 1916 he published several political pamphlets justifying a military uprising , and on Easter Monday he and six IRB colleagues issued a Proclamation declaring an Irish Republic : Pearse was designated commandant general and president of the provisional republic . |
| 23 | She checked street names carefully , peering at a sign indicating an approaching roundabout . |
| 24 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 25 | Their only tools from the outside world were the " parang " , the broad-bladed machete of the East , and a hand-drill resembling an oversized corkscrew , with which they could make all the other tools they required to produce these spectacular Noah 's Arks . |
| 26 | Later concerning pedestrians , she hopes that a pedestrian requiring an eight second gap to cross a stream of 600 veh/hr will not be delayed for more than 30 seconds . |
| 27 | Laura Knight listens and hears a woman urging an old white pony and donkeys up the hill with children abroad . |
| 28 | hence in slang use of a woman leading an immoral life , living by prostitution . |
| 29 | It carries edifying tales of four children and a dog finding an old shed and doing it up as a clubhouse . |
| 30 | A battered pewter cup stood on the table and , at the other end , in a chair facing an ash-filled fire grate , sat a lady , head forward , shoulders hunched , her veil fallen over her face . |