Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The country 's six largest construction companies , which together spend between $14 million and $16 million a year on earthquake research , met the extra costs of including base isolation in the structures . |
| 2 | I remembered my own boyhood watching cavalrymen sticking tent pegs at the gymkhanas , and tried knights on shining white chargers , complete with shining white bascinets , breastplates , leg armour and gauntlets doing the same thing to my inside , but they never really filled the role . |
| 3 | In the East Grampian project , a considerable amount of time has been devoted to map compilation , incorporating university work with the results of the field surveys . |
| 4 | A policy of Keynesian expansion , for example , whatever its merits , had no chance whatever of gaining majority support in the conditions of August 1931 . |
| 5 | Their owners never seem to tire of tossing scrap metal into the waters of their harbour home . |
| 6 | If there was any other way without keeping Mr Gomorro in the cells we would have done so . |
| 7 | The constitution , after declaring that Spain no longer possessed an official religion , committed the Republic to recognizing freedom of worship , legalizing divorce , ending state support for the salaries of clergy , dissolving the Jesuit Order and nationalizing its property , and excluding other religious orders from participation in industry , commerce and education . |
| 8 | Contribution to society : Works like ten men and fulfils valuable function keeping Sloaney hackettes off the streets . |
| 9 | When she was n't required for her scene in the court room of Alexandria she was fetching and carrying and dabbing calamine lotion on the shoulders of John Harbour who , earlier in the day , had been broiled pink as a lobster by inexpertly using a sun-lamp . |
| 10 | This can be countered by applying energy nodes to the ends of the line , forming a triad that will then require a hierarchy . |
| 11 | The United States Senate voted by 75 to 25 on Oct. 19 to withhold half a US$85,000,000 military aid allocation for El Salvador in fiscal year 1991 , until the government of President Alfredo Cristiani ( i ) demonstrated its " good faith " in pursuing peace talks with the guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) ; ( ii ) stopped the military or security forces abducting or assassinating civilians ; and ( iii ) effected a professional investigation into and prosecution of those responsible for the murders of six Jesuits , including the rector of the University of Central America , Ignacio Ellauria , their housekeeper and her daughter on Nov. 16 , 1989 [ see p. 37038 ] . |
| 12 | Groups like the Welsh Language Society and the Free Wales Army were said to be training freedom fighters in the mountains and he was barracked everywhere he went . |
| 13 | The ANC was reported on April 13 to be forming self-defence units in the townships . |
| 14 | But a researcher who recently carried out wide ranging crash tests for the Consumers Association says the seats cope poorly with side impacts : |
| 15 | The cellulose chains are always simple thread-like molecules and do not branch by forming oxygen linkages at the sides of the sugar rings , as do other , weaker , polysaccharides such as starch . |
| 16 | Protectionist measures were enacted to ensure the republic 's food stocks , including freezing the commodity exchange and establishing customs posts along the borders with the RSFSR and Moldavia , as well as banning the export of above-plan produce to other republics until Ukraine had completed its state purchase . |
| 17 | Attach the arms and legs to the body by placing them in position under the body section and pushing paper fasteners through the holes . |
| 18 | The public , however , has a right to know , so a team of Punch researchers was set to work , quizzing fashion experts about the men whose very arrival at a wardrobe signals sartorial disaster . |
| 19 | Work has started on redeveloping derilict land behind the houses on Botley Road in Oxford . |
| 20 | None of the LEAs admitted publishing league tables of the schools ' results , and rarely was any punitive action taken in relation to schools that were performing poorly . |
| 21 | No one is fighting her for the task of serving school dinners to the juniors . |
| 22 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 23 | In a series of experiments using infant rats as the subjects , Spear and his colleagues ( e.g. Spear and Molina 1987 ; Spear , Kraemer , Molina and Smoller 1988 ) have investigated acquired equivalence using a design formally identical to that of Honey and Hall ( 1989 c ) . |
| 24 | Instead of the society channelling business decisions within the bounds of public interest , the corporations seek to channel public-interest decisions within business-interest bounds ’ . |
| 25 | Gretchen was up a ladder now , sticking Bethlehem stars over the bulletholes on the ceiling . |
| 26 | A I have found that the best method of fixing cutlery blanks to the handles is by using Special T-Gap Filling Bond ( time 50 seconds ) . |
| 27 | SECURING LIGHT FITTINGS TO THE CEILINGS |
| 28 | THE San Francisco 49ers took a big step towards the Super Bowl by clinching the NFC West division and securing home advantage throughout the play-offs with a 21-14 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . |
| 29 | If one were in possession of all those binary numbers in sequence , could one infer the highest level of program or , to put it another way , could one infer what the machine was actually up to in the sense of paying tax refunds to the citizens of London , as distinct from translating a book from English to Chinese ? |
| 30 | Warsaw wrestles with tricky task of selling share ownership to the workers . |