Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [noun] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , an important contribution to the study of this system was provided by the characterization of mutant cell lines isolated from wild-type B-cell lines ( 4–6 ) or from patients carrying the bare lymphocyte syndrome ( BLS ) ( 7 ) . |
| 2 | This includes financing any public sector borrowing requirement ( PSBR ) that exists as a result of a shortfall in government revenues compared with expenditures , or at times managing the public sector debt repayment ( PSDR ) when government income is greater than government expenditure . |
| 3 | of the shares must be owned by its nationals or by companies fulfilling the same requirements and 75 per cent . |
| 4 | of the shares in the company must be owned by nationals of that member state or by companies fulfilling the same requirements and 75 per cent . |
| 5 | of the shares in the company must be owned by nationals of that member state or by companies fulfilling the same requirements and 75 per cent . |
| 6 | of the shares in the company must be owned by nationals of that member state or by companies fulfilling the same requirements and 75 per cent . |
| 7 | There were still people who saw the life of a modern university as ‘ some community of pure scholar-students pursuing their work regardless of its bearing on their subsequent careers , and of staff having the sole duty of inculcating appropriate habits of thought and advancing knowledge with no practical application ’ . |
| 8 | The changes were complex , as ever , but there were two important aspects : a shift of union power from plant to national level , and with industry entering the early stages of recession some major struggles occurred . |
| 9 | So during my three years at University College Swansea I carried on at the shop in the evenings doing the ordering , and on Saturdays running the general book department and the educational department . |
| 10 | Bailey took it 6-2 6-1 … but for henman reaching the last eight is another triumph in his first season on the international circuit |
| 11 | Bailey took it 6-2 6-1 … but for henman reaching the last eight is another triumph in his first season on the international circuit |
| 12 | There was plenty of open rugby but with Instonians gaining the better of the forward encounters especially in the loose , their three-quarters had the better opportunities to move the ball . |
| 13 | The world champion took the third frame , but with Wattana winning the fourth everything at this point suggested a tense final . |
| 14 | To Nkrumah it seemed that the British — and also the United States and France — were behaving in a devious and cynical fashion , pretending to uphold the UN but in reality sanctioning the separatist regime of Tshombe in Katanga . |