Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS THE post-mortem into the failed coup in Panama continued yesterday , it emerged that President Bush had approved an order to the US commander in the Canal Zone to remove General Manuel Noriega using covert forces , but the coup fizzled out before the order could be executed . |
| 2 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 3 | After a dazzling spell at the Beaux Arts school in Paris , Nouvel got his first few jobs building private houses . |
| 4 | What is the difference between building private wings and privatisation ? |
| 5 | The most common cause of this is taking antibiotics by mouth , because these can kill off the ‘ good ’ bacteria in the gut , allowing not-so-good microbes to multiply and replace them . |
| 6 | Growing skill in using computerized databases and statistical software for bibliometric ends ; and |
| 7 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 8 | The Fellowship , organised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ( SPAB ) , is a six-month training programme during which the craftsmen travel thousands of miles round the country together , studying traditional methods of repairing historic buildings . |
| 9 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , some of them demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 10 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , mainly demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 11 | Specifically a monopolist in residence will equate marginal revenue and marginal cost and earn substantial profits as a result , yet ( small scale ) entry would be barred because costs of producing low outputs are so high . |
| 12 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 13 | Then type in a name for your graph — using eight characters or less — and it will be saved when you press Enter . |
| 14 | Smith devised a technique using eight pieces of latex rather than one overall mask , including convincing eyelids . |
| 15 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 16 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 17 | On Dec. 26 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) quoted a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) spokesman in Baghdad as saying that " the justifications for maintaining economic sanctions against Iraq no longer existed " . |
| 18 | They should not be discharged immediately they reach their target weights , but should become accustomed to eating normal meals rather than the high-energy diet necessary for weight gain . |
| 19 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
| 20 | Nausea from eating rich foods , like in Pulsatilla , and after dietary indulgences . |
| 21 | A general amnesty was granted allowing political exiles to return freely . |
| 22 | Legislation allowing political parties could be introduced in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 23 | This year there were 15 entrants submitting 92 entries ( Jenny Young of D & A Services submitted 20 ) and the standard really was extremely high . |
| 24 | Cross-domain collocations did not appear to be effective , as was expected , which underlined the importance of accurate domain identification when using domain-specific dictionaries . |
| 25 | All I was going to say was that clearly I agree with one thing , but one would assume that as the paper is a really a general outline that we would be seeing specific targets as the agenda 's worked through over the next two three years . |
| 26 | ‘ I put on a light foundation and , using earthy browns , subtly highlighted Fiona 's eyes and shaded in her lips with an amber-coloured lipstick . ’ |
| 27 | Even quite elderly people , male or female , could often earn something towards their maintenance , while the practice of assisting low-wage earners with large families of young children was widespread . |
| 28 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 29 | The corps have become , according to Medhurst ( 1973 : 113 ) , ‘ a means of transforming administrative structures to serve private ends ’ . |
| 30 | Most institutions , including the RIBA under present proposals , fall into the middle category , although maintaining professional skills is an implicit , or in many cases explicit , requirement . |