Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently , we have seen in the UK , in the Lindop Inquiry , not only a group of academics subscribing to the notion of a ‘ coherent academic community ’ , but also the government in its response accepting that the best safeguard of ‘ standards ’ lies in the maintenance of a ‘ coherent , self-critical academic community ’ . |
| 2 | Sara felt her heart thumping and the colour rising in her cheeks . |
| 3 | Is a promise to give a wedding present binding when the marriage takes place ? |
| 4 | One theory is based upon aposematic , or warning coloration suggesting that the bright coloration of the clownfish acts as a warning to predators against approaching too closely to the venomous tentacles . |
| 5 | ‘ Knocking is certainly immoral , ’ says Muggleton , ‘ but without witnesses we have difficulty proving that the knocker boys have employed fraud . |
| 6 | She translates the implicit meaning of tight skirts and high heels as the exact equivalent of Chinese foot binding and the Nigerian custom of loading women 's legs with pounds of brass wire . |
| 7 | Similarly , why waste time and money phoning when the only way you have been able to get your money in the past has been to call in person . |
| 8 | John felt the hull of the yacht vibrating as the tanker approached . |
| 9 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 10 | The position of the bend influences the electrophoretic mobility of the protein-DNA complex with maximal retardation occurring when the bend is located at the middle of the fragment and a gradual reduction in retardation is seen for bends positioned at incremental positions towards the ends of the fragment ( 44,62 ) . |
| 11 | Any damage occurring after the novus actus interveniens will be regarded as being too remote . |
| 12 | The Sunday programme 's poll follows another survey by BBC Radio 4 's Today programme suggesting that the opinion in the House of Laity is within a hair's-breadth of the necessary two-thirds majority . |
| 13 | Police said the patrol car had its blue light flashing and a B-test on the driver proved negative . |
| 14 | were in effect suggesting that the inner psychological motivations for racism existed at a deeper level of social reality than the socially shared norms of tolerance . |
| 15 | The latter case was an action to recover taxes paid under duress and protest , the plaintiff contending that the levying statute was unconstitutional , and the defendant contending that the payment was voluntary . |
| 16 | If you are eventing rather than hunter trialling and the horse is standing in the horsebox between phases , he is likely to ‘ go off the boil ’ and although he should not require work as such , he will probably need a sharp canter and four or five practice jumps before he is ready to go . |
| 17 | In these subjects the OR continued to occur at a high level throughout training , a result suggesting that a stimulus that fails to predict its consequences reliably will continue to receive some form of processing . |
| 18 | It is possible to conduct this debate without either side maintaining that the internal organization of the units matters ( witness what will be said about Game Theory in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 19 | The operator can " cut " from one picture to another , and is in effect editing as the recording progresses . |
| 20 | The Law Society has responded to the introduction of Legal Aid franchising and the Society 's development of the Practice Management Standards by organising a major series of conferences during May , June and July 1993 . |
| 21 | A disputes panel of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ruled in May that the USA had broken GATT rules on government procurement by purchasing a US-made sonar mapping system without opening bidding to overseas tenders ; the US Congress had imposed a " buy American " requirement on the purchase , the administration maintaining that the GATT code did not apply to service contracts . |
| 22 | Intravenous infusion of neuropeptide Y did not affect bile secretion suggesting that the choleretic effect of intracerebroventricular neuropeptide Y was not the result of peripheral leakage of the peptide across the blood brain barrier . |
| 23 | Many arguments are based on one side lumping and the other splitting . |
| 24 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 25 | She saw her own blood spurting as the lamb 's must have spurted out . |
| 26 | Ye Gods , whatever next ? ’ , while another spent a fair bit of lineage explaining that the foursome , who moved decidedly upmarket via their first Big Life LP release , were now ‘ fitting in ’ Tokyo and Paris as well as Norwich and Wigan . |
| 27 | The main blow to Mr Yeltsin 's critics came when the prime minister , Viktor Chernomyrdin — read out a government statement of support for the president pledging that the defence , interior and security ministers would remain faithful to ‘ the principles of the constitution . ’ |
| 28 | Repeat the exercise to calibrate the second pickup winding and the instrument is ready for use . |
| 29 | In 1694 Jean Gailhard wrote a pamphlet urging that the annual commemoration of 30 January and 29 May be stopped , arguing that the sermons delivered on that day helped perpetuate the country 's political divisions , though it is clear that what he objected to was the fact that these days helped promote a Tory vision of government in Church and State , since he himself did not believe anything done during the reigns of Charles I or Charles II was worth commemorating . |
| 30 | There are few more pathetic sights than aggrieved bowlers staring down at the popping-crease after being no-balled , craning neck insinuating that the umpire was in error . |