Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [be] [v-ing] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increased demand for labour means that mining companies are paying Indians 20 times the normal daily rate . |
| 2 | Expert systems are taking computers one step further , they simulate the reasoning processes of human experts , applying the ‘ rules of thumb ’ that only experience can provide . |
| 3 | Is the Prime Minister aware that the Home Office is withdrawing section 11 funding from all the colleges in the London borough of Ealing and that that adversely affects the Pathway further education centre in my constituency , where we have the largest concentration of people from the new Commonwealth ? |
| 4 | To tackle these and other problems , the water companies are investing £28 billion in the next nine years . |
| 5 | Does the Prime Minister recognise that , because of privatisation , the water companies are spending £28 billion on improving water quality , including schemes in west Norfolk to upgrade drinking water and clean up our beaches ? |
| 6 | Until the last minute Gould was dealing orders nineteen-to-the-dozen . |
| 7 | The salvage operation is taking place 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in North Atlantic waters over 12,400 feet deep . |
| 8 | Progress Software Corp is shipping version 6.3 of its Application Development Environment ( UX No 405 ) on Sun SPARC , Sequent PTX , IBM RS/6000 and Data General Aviion Unix machines as well as those running Santa Cruz Operation Unix . |
| 9 | Candle Corp is implementing Posix 1003 and 1003.4 real-time extensions for IBM 's MVS/ESA 4.2 operating system running 3090 and ES/9000 mainframes : testing begins now , Posix-compliant versions will ship this year . |
| 10 | The County Antrim player yesterday defeated N.Bohling from Sweden 4–3 , but at the same time Watson was beating Dale 4–2 on an adjoining table . |