Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [num] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , protein trees encompassing the three domains of life ( archaebacteria , eubacteria and eukaryotes ) are becoming more popular as the number of available protein sequences from archaebacteria increases . |
| 2 | They are based at a duty room outside the Soviet War Memorial in the Tiergarten , tasked with policing the 3.7 kilometres of Wall which separates the British and Soviet sectors . |
| 3 | Henry James was followed by the Benson brothers , E. F. Benson the novelist and A. C , for years Master of Oxford 's Magdalen College — I wonder if anyone has succeeded in editing the twenty-six volumes of autobiography he left . |
| 4 | They rounded off the environmental scenario by including the 3 TWh of wind power Vatenfall thinks could be installed in Sweden by 2010 . |
| 5 | HCIMA has a seat on the Governing Board , as a founding member , together with industry representatives from the International Hotel Association ( IHA ) , the EC trade Association group HOTREC and from hotel schools representing the three levels of qualification banding : craft , supervisory and management . |
| 6 | In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It . |
| 7 | Set over four exciting levels , Crystal Kingdom Dizzy has our ovoid hero seeking the three treasures of Zeffar . |
| 8 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 9 | So I I think you 've got to open it up by separating the two bits of business , the bit that 's special |
| 10 | They are bumping along a wide highway , stalls stacked with water melons separating the two streams of traffic , the outlines of corrugated-iron roofs defining a shantytown on either side . |
| 11 | That same year the Salvation Army was celebrating a hundred years of witness in Rhodesia . |
| 12 | Or have I fallen into the trap of seeing a dozen cases of doubt and declaring a universal epidemic ? |
| 13 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |
| 14 | Greenpeace workers had begun packaging the 425 tonnes of waste , dumped in the Sibiu area of central Romania , for safe transport back to Germany and said they would remain at the site until the transport promised by German Environment Minister Klaus Töpfer arrived . |
| 15 | While the company has still not announced how much vendors will have to pay in royalties on top of the $400,000 licence fee for buying the 135,000 lines of code , it did say that royalties had been reduced significantly , and the second release of the code will be free to those companies that buy the first . |
| 16 | =58 , p<0.01 ) in values of B. Treating the 120 values of P(A) as independent the values were compared in an analysis of variance with two factors , junction and study . |
| 17 | The shape of the island , he told her , was a rough figure-of-eight , with a narrow neck of land joining the two halves of landmass . |
| 18 | It 's a bit ridiculous really having the two ways of spelling |
| 19 | In addition to the control values depicting the nine freedoms of space ( three of translation , three of rotation and three of scale ) , it is convenient to include additionally ones of overall zoom and perspective . |
| 20 | Cluster analysis revealed a clear bimodal pattern differentiating the two sets of citation patterns . |
| 21 | She took it philosophically , and spent her days reading The Seven Pillars of Wisdom . |
| 22 | It was predictable that the onerousness of the rating task held down response rate somewhat ( 33 per cent of a target population of 200 ) , but less predictably , great suspicion was aroused by the use of multiplication as a way of combining the two components of need for change . |
| 23 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 24 | Table II shows individual data comparing the two methods of bicarbonate and alkali determination . |
| 25 | But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress . |
| 26 | Do not make the mistake of putting the two sets of shoulder stitches back to working position and running the whole lot together on to waste yarn as this can be a nuisance when you need to unravel parts of the waste yarn while you join the shoulders together . |
| 27 | Placing the three kinds of power in a matrix with the three kinds of involvement produces nine types of compliance , three of which are found more frequently in practice than the other six because they constitute congruent relationships : alientative/coercive ( e.g. prisons ) ; remunerative/calculative ( e.g. firms ) ; normative/moral ( e.g. political parties ) . |
| 28 | In the kitchen , which had now become familiar to him , Joe set about making the two cups of cocoa . |
| 29 | Hence , there is real scope for integrating the two forms of analysis . |
| 30 | Dawn and evening the three , tall Ruari , gangly Ranald , tiny Luch , tramped in uneven procession up to the moor carrying a dozen bags of leather . |