Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Labour 's support was needed in the House to block the building of the Humber port , which will be capable of handling 10 million tonnes of imported coal , Labour Members showed their true colours and left the Commons at 8 pm . |
| 2 | Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes . |
| 3 | The South African government has approved a project to build a plant capable of handling 500,000 tons of imported waste a year . |
| 4 | Finally on the CD front is the CDC-625 multi-disc player ( £299.95 ) , again using SL-Bit and capable of handling five discs at a time . |
| 5 | It was expected that the airport would be capable of handling 80,000,000 passengers a year , while the port extensions would increase fivefold the colony 's present cargo handling capacity . |
| 6 | It is clear ( and quite natural ) that in the rush to set up such a massive process , capable of handling 10,000 registrations , there is some unevenness in the processing . |
| 7 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 8 | If he had no intention of using four foreigners , why did he have them among his sixteen ? |
| 9 | THE ADVANTAGES OF USING FIFTY MILLESIMALS . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , at some future data an exercise would be undertaken by the Organization and Methods section to examine the feasibility of using one document to produce the updating information required by both the Payroll Master File and the PMIS . |
| 11 | Williamson 's advice to the organizational designer is to operate in a discriminating way , that is only after making a comparative assessment of the costs of using one organizational form rather than another . |
| 12 | In this way , the trick of using two cores has performed the seemingly impossible task of isolating the tiny wanted signal from the comparatively huge unwanted one . |
| 13 | Robson did think of playing Platt alongside Bull but rejected the idea of using two inexperienced players at the same time . |
| 14 | The idea of using two microphones appeals to me because it could stimulate two ears . |
| 15 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 16 | A WOMAN law clerk was remanded in custody yesterday at Manchester magistrates ' court , accused of helping two prisoners escape from the court where they were on trial over the Strangeways jail riot . |
| 17 | Rosalind Krauss talks about the function of myths as furnishing the possibility of maintaining two opposing or contradictory points of view ‘ in some kind of paralogical suspension ’ ( Grids , in The Originality of the Avant Garde and other Modernist Myths , The MIT Press , 1987 ) |
| 18 | And generally it is the case that the personal security of the part-time reserve police is most at risk of all the members of the RUC , because of the difficulties of maintaining three identities ( police officer , member of family and neighbourhood network , and employee ) , with their associated and sometimes conflicting modes of discourse and thinking . |
| 19 | What Scunthorpe managed last season Scarborough achieved despite the disappointment of seeing one of their most sustained periods of pressure relieved with the Steve Clarke goal which gave Chelsea the lead . |
| 20 | Bending and brushing away overhanging thorn branches , I sidled through the water in vain hopes of seeing one of the otters that lived here , according to Mrs Knelle . |
| 21 | He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year . |
| 22 | It was just the shock of seeing two policemen on her doorstep . |
| 23 | Law of good continuity Then you tend to get things like closure where , instead of seeing four separated lines , you tend to see a square or a rectangle or whatever . |
| 24 | THE CHANCES of seeing 20 wild barn owls together in Britain are virtually nil , but in the oil palm plantations of Peninsular Malaysia such sights are commonplace . |
| 25 | A former Ministry of Defence worker , has been found guilty of accepting one and a half million pounds in backhanders from arms companies , in what 's thought to be the biggest ever corruption case . |
| 26 | The largest wind generator in operation is probably the NASA MOD 1 at Boone , in North Carolina ( sponsored by the US Department of Energy ) which has a 200 foot diameter and is capable of generating two megawatts of peak power . |
| 27 | The Chinese parliament has voted in favour of the controversial Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river , the biggest hydro-electric project in the world , which will be capable of generating one-eighth of all the power now produced in China . |
| 28 | DynaGraphX provides eight types of graph widgets capable of generating 40 real time display formats and automatic C code generation , courtesy of CenterLine Inc 's CodeCenter C. The development licence for this package is £4,600 with maintenance . |
| 29 | GCHQ has equipment costing billions of pounds , capable of intercepting millions of calls a year . |
| 30 | When Nizan repeatedly asserted that peace was " indivisible " , his intention was to highlight the inadequacy of " localising " disputes between nation states , of allowing one nation to use force against another with impunity . |