Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the UK , the Government took a long look at the spectrum before launching a fifth and sixth TV channel . |
| 2 | One or both of them may not wish to cope with parenting a second time round , having not long been released from the exhaustion and limitations of childcare on their own account . |
| 3 | A turnout of at least 40 per cent was required to make a first round vote valid , but on Sept. 30 this threshold was not met in the majority of constituencies ( turnout nationwide was only 36 per cent ) , necessitating a second ballot for more than 80 per cent of council seats . |
| 4 | Can a chimp perceive a movie as representing a second individual trying to solve a problem , like reaching bananas or switching on a heater ? |
| 5 | In the film 's most inventive touch , Hook tries to avenge himself on Peter Pan by becoming a second and better father . |
| 6 | It is recorded that they began by purchasing a second hand soccer ball from Lisbon CC . |
| 7 | Car drivers are banned from using their cars in the capital one day each week — although many have circumvented the ban by purchasing a second car . |
| 8 | A Cheltenham man has since been charged with murder and wounding a second student . |
| 9 | 3 This agreement is on the assumption that you are the owner of the materials , and that in the event of your employing a third person or persons to provide part or the whole of the materials , that the copyright of those materials have been assigned to you . |
| 10 | ‘ One was financial — loss of earnings , keeping a second home and campaigning expenses set us back a great deal over the 15 months . |
| 11 | Announcing a third year of increased profits , managing director Anthony Mackintosh tells me : ‘ We plan to have a new front entrance , so in the evening it 's not quite so like Twickenham . ’ |
| 12 | Close co-operation between SWAPO and the Nordic countries continued , with Sweden , Denmark , Finland and Norway contributing a third of all Western promised at the June international donors ' conference . |
| 13 | Some people have moved out of towns to live in the countryside , sometimes adopting a second part-time job in the rural area , while many inhabitants of rural areas have been able to obtain jobs in towns . |
| 14 | Classic movie-star style also crops up at Hope And Glory , who are opening a second shop in the new Thomas Neal development in Covent Garden at the end of September . |
| 15 | Opening a second reading debate on the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Bill , Mr Clarke said the Government would uphold the ‘ fine tradition ’ of admitting those genuinely facing persecution . |
| 16 | In addition to London , Tyzack has an office in Bristol and will shortly be opening a third UK branch in the North . |
| 17 | She was about to go out to it , but he called her back , opening a third door in the rear wall of the room . |
| 18 | The adoption of standards by TDWG networking and the first steps towards ‘ taxonomically intelligent ’ integrity checking are enabling a second generation to appear . |
| 19 | Inspector White said : ‘ Providing the club [ Arsenal ] were happy , staging a second replay ay Highbury would not have been a problem for us . |
| 20 | Now we 're driving a tenth of the speed , so it 's going to be one over one tenth . |
| 21 | Under Mr Coates , the British-equity business was put on a sounder basis — first by carefully working out the profitability of each of its institutional clients and , second , by then sacking a fifth of its British-equity team . |
| 22 | He was educated at the Oratory School , Birmingham ( 1878–84 ) and read history at Trinity College , Oxford ( 1884–8 ) , gaining a second class in modern history in 1888 . |
| 23 | Despite gaining a second corner during the half , Milton failed to penetrate the home defence and at half time neither side had scored . |
| 24 | The success of Peter Medd. an Old Boy and son of one of the Visitors , in gaining a First Class Honours degree at Oxford so pleased the Goldsmiths that he was given a prize of £20 and the School an extra week 's holiday that summer . |
| 25 | ( London ) , gaining a first in mental and moral science and a second in mathematics , while three years later she became the first woman to be awarded a D.Sc . |
| 26 | This is a very useful way of gaining a first impression of a program and other teachers or school librarians may be present who have used the software in class and have evaluated its use . |
| 27 | Two years later he was again dismissing a third of his hands in a mid-winter lay-off . |
| 28 | The turnout was given as 75.16 per cent of some 120,000 eligible voters , and provisional figures showed 96.84 per cent as approving the draft , according to the Interior Ministry on Sept. 5 ; 96.79 per cent approving a second proposition to restrict the number of political parties to four . |
| 29 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 30 | The certification to BS 5750 for Design and Construction which followed the successful assessment by BSI last autumn , was fitting reward for the hard work and efforts of all WEC staff in establishing a first class Quality Management System . |