Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 The Social Statistics Research Unit ( SSRU ) at City University is to provide the focus for a research programme into individual and household change using data from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ' ( OPCS ) Longitudinal Study ( LS ) .
2 And the IMF 's charms become virtually irresistable when supplemented by the ‘ intangibles ’ : VIP treatment at airports , royalty-class and first-class travel , Dallas-style hotels , generous allowances for overnight stays in playground cities and for high-class nightclubbing in ‘ sin cities ’ , personal secretaries on every mission , G-5 Visas allowing staff to bring maids into the United States , not to mention medical , insurance and pension perks .
3 The project will test this hypothesis using data collected from teachers and from pupils .
4 The variations in gas yield and composition with maturity have been determined for Palaeozoic and Tertiary coals using data obtained from laboratory heating experiments .
5 Then came her horrifying eight-day ordeal , during which Sams wrote to her employers demanding £175,000 ransom .
6 Paid J Binns for moles catching £1. 18s. 0d .
7 The company has also been growing by acquisition , with the purchase earlier this year of the American pumpmaker Peabody Floway using £12m of its £46m cash .
8 However , special arrangements have been made for coaches bringing people to the Tattoo and your cooperation is sought to ensure that your drivers are fully conversant with the information given below .
9 Swineford second field producing chub and a few good roach .
10 Limpley Stoke sewer outfall producing bream. , with some chub throughout .
11 His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself .
12 That is economic lunacy , not saving money it 's lunacy it should be in operation making money bringing people in .
13 In addition , BBA will take on debts equalling £16.3 million and £15.9 million , respectively .
14 Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits .
15 Over 550 companies attended a series of seminars and one-to-one meetings with Ministry of Defence purchasing staff — including , for the first time , the Defence Works Service which deals with physical projects .
16 ( iv ) In proof-reading any work produced on a word processor , pupils may have access to a computer spelling checker. ( v ) Pupils should be encouraged to use whatever presentational devices are appropriate for a given piece of work — particularly work that is to be displayed or made public .
17 Hydrogen partial pressures in the colon are kept low by losses in breath and flatus and by the activities of hydrogen utilising species such as methanogenic , acetogenic , and sulphate reducing bacteria .
18 But there is no finer place than Gol-Oya to see numbers of these great birds in action catching fish and performing aerial courtship displays in the breeding season .
19 The sale of cookery books and glass-cloths brought in more money , the cookery books producing £746 .
20 Few books are published nowadays without the authors using graphics to illustrate their ideas .
21 Fast productivity growth in the sectors producing means of production ensured a rapid reduction in the real cost of capital goods .
22 This is a delight that the creme-de-la-creme of the SNCF catering staff will find out about when they take over the London-Leeds line kitchens in October .
23 To determine how to improve drill bit efficiency for the 12 ¼″ well section , Fear recently spent two months gathering data and processing it at BPXC .
24 Answer guide : This introduces the idea of arriving at the amount of stock using sales less mark-up , a technique that is often used to produce regular accounts in the retail sector .
25 It 's a vital rule allowing people to talk freely , including sex offenders .
26 Little shops employing people part time had to drop some of their jobs .
27 With children 's books representing £290m or 12% of the book market , something like 20% of children 's trade publishing ended up in schools .
28 Designs incorporating fish , birds , bulls , people , gods , goddesses , schematized buildings of various kinds , ships , and elaborate ritual scenes were carved into an astonishing range of materials : ivory , bone , agate , carnelian , haematite , jasper , chalcedony , lapis lazuli and even rock crystal , amethyst and obsidian .
29 A snow plough costing £170,000 made a disastrous debut when it became stuck in fivefoot drifts in Teesdale on Thursday .
30 Both are good investments , insulation costing £150 will will save you £60 to £70 a year , while draft-proofing worth £83 saves up to £40 a year .
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