Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He revealed that although this appeared to be an instance favouring a pluralist conception of law-making , i.e. law representing a compromise between the interests of numerous groups , it was in fact a law which basically reflected the interests of the coal industry and those dependent upon it — manufacturers of heavy equipment and the electric utilities , who consume nearly 80 per cent of domestically mined coal . |
| 2 | Glancing through a file ( which Harry took to be Heather 's ) with the pursed lips and darting eyes of an auditor perusing an unsatisfactory set of accounts , he conveyed none of the warmth or insight which Harry supposed successful psychoanalysis to require . |
| 3 | If sometimes , when I canvassed for other people at elections , addressed envelopes , drafted manifestos , I felt like an alcoholic sneaking a secret drink , this was a purely subjective analogy . |
| 4 | Trials in the village of Enstone found up to forty drivers an hour breaking the thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 5 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |
| 6 | Using this technique required one camera pointed at the live set , another pointed at an easel bearing a large , mounted photograph a caption slide . |
| 7 | Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent . |
| 8 | Radelescu and Stoia ( 1979 ) , for instance , describe a microprocessor-based closed-loop control in which the switching angle is calculated by an algorithm involving the two previous step periods , enabling the rate of change of speed to be taken into account . |
| 9 | ‘ contributed to the … view that unless it appears that the wife clearly understood the effect of an instrument conferring a voluntary benefit on her husband it may be invalidated . ’ |
| 10 | It emerged that across the very varied fleets the cost of asbestos removal would be £25,000 per vehicle , an investment producing no financial return . |
| 11 | Alternatively , let him fly high to act as a aerial patrol to intercept an enemy trying the same thing . |
| 12 | This means that an applicant seeking a first interim order in care proceedings , whether or not it follows upon an emergency protection order , should file and serve on all respondents before the hearing statements of the evidence to be relied upon . |
| 13 | An applicant seeking an interim injunction is normally required to give an undertaking to compensate the respondent for irreparable monetary loss suffered as a result of compliance with the injunction in case the respondent wins at the hearing and the injunction is not made permanent but is discharged . |
| 14 | Although in terms of outgoings this type of mortgage is the most expensive , it arguably provides the best value since , having repaid the mortgage , the balance of the pension fund ( 75% ) is applied to purchasing an annuity giving a guaranteed income for life . |
| 15 | A fragment of a poem in a Berlin papyrus edited by Wilamowitz alludes to an episode involving a Hellenistic king against the Gauls : the rest is left to our imagination ( D. L. Page , Greek Literary Papyri I , 463 ) . |
| 16 | Figure 3.11 shows a representative set of results from an experiment using the flavour-aversion paradigm . |
| 17 | To accept the implication of this finding makes it difficult to explain away the dissociation obtained by Hall and Channell ( 1985b ) ( the observation that latent inhibition is context dependent when habituation is not ) , which came from an experiment using the same response measures , stimuli , and procedures as were used by Hall and Schachtman ( 1987 ) . |
| 18 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 19 | So give me an example , Daniel , of an industry using a natural resource . |
| 20 | Editors threaten to resign , partisan journalists are foolhardy enough to stake their reputation on an act charting the following week , anxious record company operatives jam the switchboard — and all over one editorial decision about which photograph to use . |
| 21 | Each orbital has a distinct wave-function , which describes the distribution of an electron occupying the orbital , and an energy which such an electron must possess . |
| 22 | encourage movement in your opponent 's position by : summarizing the course of negotiations so far , suggesting that the time has come for mutual concessions suggesting a new position which represents a different point of departure for both parties linking two or more issues since ‘ it might help us get nearer a settlement ’ suggesting an adjournment indicating the exact area to which you want your opponent to pay attention |
| 23 | There is a doctrine that an arbitrator whose task is to declare an amount payable , rather than award damages , or an expert performing a similar role , does not have the power to award interest : Knibb v National Coal Board [ 1987 ] QB 906 . |
| 24 | Up the track came an engine pushing a blazing box-car . |
| 25 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 26 | The upset of the moment is aptly translated in the music by a sudden shift to A minor , leading through various keys to a final cadence on a G minor chord , which is also the tonic of the final movement , an ariette containing a moral that recaptures the nostalgia of the opening movements : ‘ Love like a beautiful dream fades when youth is past ’ . |
| 27 | Ludens , steadying Marcus 's head with one hand , his fingers plunged into the short hair , and slowly and firmly moving the very sharp instrument , felt like an acolyte performing a dangerous task , perhaps intended as a test . |
| 28 | This reminder of a living bedroom was the shaft of an arrow cleaving an accurate way through time . |
| 29 | Eventually an issue affecting the latter brought matters to a head . |
| 30 | For a molecular biologist , knowledge of a sequence means that the function of the protein specified by that sequence is known — for example the protein may form an ion channel or be an enzyme metabolizing a particular molecule . |