Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 By this time some of the areas have been treated , maximising contact time without wasting operators time .
2 During 1978 it became apparent that the existing methods of storing and handling personnel information were inadequate and in need of urgent review .
3 CLARENCE THE LION is soon to star on Radio Forth 's Drivetime slots , bringing roads news to listeners throughout the region .
4 It has several graphic editors for handling rules generation , linguistic variables and system structure , with 8-bit resolution for all internal and external data .
5 MB 's building products division has a large overlap with Caradon 's operations .
6 Wide-band RMS-to-DC converter , using difference-of-squares technique
7 Conceptually , what is offered is little more than an automated ‘ sieve mapping ’ that land-use planners have used for many years , but the whole procedure is speeded up by many orders of magnitude using GIS software .
8 Within RBGE , C. Will has previous experience of using GIS software , including GKS , GIMMS , CARTO-NET and ARC-INFO with ORACLE-based interfaces on Vax and InterGraph hardware , and he also has contacts with software developers and hardware users in Edinburgh University Geography Department and British Geological Survey ( including Overseas Geological Surveys ) .
9 the preparation of quite large amounts of text ( letters , job descriptions , contracts ) with a considerable amount of repetition of common material ; 2. the creation and maintenance of files containing a mass of details about people and their subsequent analysis to provide information in a wide variety of forms for many different purposes Both these activities can be considerably simplified and streamlined using computers Word processing systems are eminently suited to the first .
10 This tournament has filled an important gap in Higher Education tennis thanks to Midland Bank 's financial support ( which stretches from sponsoring schools tennis right through to the World circuit ) .
11 IBM Corp has teamed up with Enabling Technologies Group Inc , Atlanta in an effort to plunder Hewlett-Packard Co 's Domain/OS customer base : it will offer Enabling 's Arpus collection of tools and services to assist organisations moving from Domain/OS systems to IBM 's AIX/6000 Unix systems ‘ while protecting the customer 's investment in business-critical applications ; ’ the two will particularly go after the 15,000 Domain/OS customers that use Mentor Graphics Inc 's electronic design automation tools .
12 Understanding Values Education in Primary Schools
13 But it was capable of far more sophisticated applications , giving swift updating of average salaries and enabling Personnel Management to compare one company within the Group with another .
14 I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director .
15 Although the two purchases were at no stage legally conditional the one on the other , the obvious inference was that the family was interested in acquiring houses side by side .
16 MARTIN HARRISON looks at a way of protecting savings income
17 An initial scan of the phoneme graph produces some number of best matching words bottom-up which are ordered by score on an agenda for processing by higher level components .
18 In reporting EDS-GFI 's 1992 revenues of $342m , 25% of EDS 's European business of $1,370m , Tordjman indicated the company is particularly interested in acquiring telecommunications expertise .
19 The feedback will be used to modify existing packs and to develop further packs for launching OLS Survival level in France , Germany and possibly Japan in 1990 .
20 Ingres Corp will support 4Gb binary large objects ( BLOBS ) as an extension to the kernel of Version 6.5 of its relational database management system , due to go into beta test next year : the move seems aimed at forestalling customers thinking of moving to object databases , or to other RDBMS that already support BLOBs , such as Informix , Interbase and Oracle Version 7 — BLOBS however , are seen as little more than a token gesture towards true object databases .
21 Avoid checking sounds word finally , to start with , as these are often devoiced .
22 I mean sort of patting things town , not stirring them up . ’
23 Tom Strot was definitely a man for keeping things routine .
24 Within a context of ‘ de-politicizing ’ labour affairs , local control over education was constrained by a prior national need to confront the radical teachers union , and the liberal emphasis on decentralizing curricula control was checked .
25 Opening Childrens Parade
26 No bellows tongue , lacing uses strip of four plastic rings .
27 But new techniques were needed to find landing points for assault craft and ships , for not only minor craft and major craft ( LCTs etc ) would be put ashore but also Landing Ships Tank ( LSTs ) of over 300 feet ( 90+m ) weighing 4,080 short tons would beach .
28 ‘ Counterfeiting is at its highest level for 10 years , ’ said trading standards officer Peter Mawdsley .
29 Trading standards officer
30 TRADING STANDARDS OFFICER
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