Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |
| 2 | However , in cases where the Director General of Fair Trading has dispensed with that notice ( usually in the case of mail order consumer credit agreements ) , the " cooling-off " period runs until " the end of the fourteenth day following the day on which he signed the unexecuted agreement " ( s68(b) ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I Galileo Galilei , being in my seventieth year having before my eyes the Holy Gospel , which I touch with my hands , abjure , curse and detest the error and heresy of the movement of the Earth . ’ |
| 4 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 5 | By the sixteenth century mining operations had become closely regulated by the clock according to Agricola ( Georg Bauer ) , who in his De re metallica , of 1555 , noted the precise times of shifts . |
| 6 | Admirable as it was architecturally , it was a vast white elephant ; the £23,000 spent on its rebuilding was wasted , partly because the river it was designed to protect shifted its channel in the later sixteenth century leaving Camber perched well inland . |
| 7 | In a European multicentre study 40 patients with HBeAg positive chronic hepatitis B virus ( HBV ) infection were treated with 5 mega units of lymphoblastoid α-interferon daily according to the following regimen : a four week primer course , four weeks of rest and a second course lasting 16 to 30 weeks . |
| 8 | For the second part finding out what their needs are . |
| 9 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 10 | ‘ Mind you ’ Maxim said ‘ I could go back to her cottage and have a second snoop taking my time . |
| 11 | A second composite instructing the National Executive Committee to treat conference resolutions as amendments to review documents was defeated by 3,704,000 to 2,245,000 . |
| 12 | As there is a danger that people will be confused and might buy from the second retailer thinking that they are buying from the other , he should be able to obtain an injunction preventing the second retailer from continuing to use the name he has chosen . |
| 13 | Here are some examples : Unemployment The 29th change affecting unemployment figures since 1979 was quietly introduced last July when 26,000 redundant miners were ‘ relieved of the requirement ’ to sign on , according to documents leaked from the Department of Employment . |
| 14 | Swineford second field producing chub and a few good roach . |
| 15 | The French 29th Division holding the Bois d'Avocourt had been just too long in the trenches . |
| 16 | Then , remembering her damaged thumb , she went back and examined the top rail , exclaiming aloud in excitement as she found a second thread clinging to the rough wood . |
| 17 | The Italians keep a second striker lurking behind the first . |
| 18 | They were a sub-order with sharp claws and a prominent second toe looking like a huge sickle . |
| 19 | ALLAN WELLS , the former Olympic sprint champion , is to help Second Division Reading with their speed and fitness . |
| 20 | There are considerable gains to be made too in fuel consumption , for while second gear driving at 30 km/h actually consumes seven per cent more fuel than driving at 50 km/h , third gear defensive approaches yield a seven per cent fall . |
| 21 | The second Alternative offering this month is just super . |
| 22 | At the resumed hearing a nolle prosequi was entered pursuant to section 4(1) of the Criminal Justice ( Administration ) Act The defendant was tried on a second indictment charging him with murder , convicted and sentenced to death . |
| 23 | The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion . |
| 24 | On 15 May , in a second telegram continuing from the first [ KP 120 ] , he reported on his " brief flying visit to General Keightley at Headquarters 5th Corps at Klagenfurt " . |
| 25 | It takes the useful and practical form of a general introductory chapter , a second chapter presenting the form of tender and form of agreement both with commentary , an extended chapter 3 which presents the conditions of the International Civil Engineering Contract ( 5th edition — 1973 ) with a running commentary not in every case clause by clause but certainly confining the commentary where it is not upon an individual clause to a small group of related clauses , and a final chapter dealing with conditions of particular application . |
| 26 | With a single swift movement , almost by reflex , her only thought to prevent a second ring waking Dersingham , she picked up the receiver and put it to her ear . |
| 27 | He crossed the street , dodging the traffic , reaching the door in time to see a second figure stepping into the elevator . |
| 28 | Repeat the exercise to calibrate the second pickup winding and the instrument is ready for use . |
| 29 | The second rule assisting employees is the provision contained in the legislation entitling any employee of at least two years ' standing to a written statement of reasons for dismissal . |
| 30 | Thus we have a contribution depending on the total charge , and a second term bearing strong resemblance to our dipole formulae . |