Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] " 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 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 3 | Taken together , therefore , these new courses and the DMS represent relatively little decline overall in the numbers of students in the maintained sector pursuing post-experience management education in the last few years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Following the debacle of 1931 , the trade unions came to play an increasingly important part in shaping Labour policy . |
| 6 | After a dazzling spell at the Beaux Arts school in Paris , Nouvel got his first few jobs building private houses . |
| 7 | What is the difference between building private wings and privatisation ? |
| 8 | At bottom I think the question of recovering economic loss is one of policy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Who gets to define , measure and act on quality in the NHS is , according to Pollitt ( 1992 ) , divided up along " tribal " lines reflecting professional demarcation boundaries and struggles for control among competing groups . |
| 11 | Make regular water changes using conditioned water and occasionally some more ‘ starter ’ |
| 12 | Growing skill in using computerized databases and statistical software for bibliometric ends ; and |
| 13 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , some of them demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 16 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , mainly demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 17 | ‘ Right now we 're concentrating a lot of experimentation on bass strings , and especially on producing low B strings for 5-string basses . |
| 18 | Instead , we are trapped in a cycle of a low skilled workforce being supervised by poorly-trained managers , producing low quality goods and services . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 21 | 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 " . |
| 22 | Those industrial societies which were ( and in a few cases still are ) collectivist and centrally planned , have had to cope with different problems , although they too were affected by economic recession , and faced some of the same difficulties in maintaining economic growth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even is we use only the lowest numbers available , based on official statistics , we are still seeing acute poverty for 873,000 people . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | Nausea from eating rich foods , like in Pulsatilla , and after dietary indulgences . |
| 27 | A general amnesty was granted allowing political exiles to return freely . |
| 28 | We have , for example , welcomed laws that allows us to merge and accept transfers of engagements from other trade unions and also laws allowing political expenditure . |
| 29 | Legislation allowing political parties could be introduced in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 30 | 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 . |