Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kuwaiti Ministry of Public Works says the cost of completing the telecommunications tower in Kuwait City has risen to $175m from $110m : the increase is due mainly to damage done by the Iraqis during their occupation of the country , as well as changes in the project 's specifications and a rise in the cost of raw materials and labour . |
| 2 | Four hundred artists represented in the museum 's collection have responded to the idea of producing a greetings image on an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper . |
| 3 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 4 | You stand nearly three times as much chance of getting a police caution in Kent as you do in South Wales . |
| 5 | SHORT OF HOLDING an arts festival down the darkened drains of Guildford , it is hard to think of a less promising cultural centre than the Arctic Circle . |
| 6 | A bizarre aspect of the case is that Mr Devaty 's ‘ crimes ’ include the apparently punishable offence of sending the authorities papers about their human rights abuses . |
| 7 | Now Powell outlined a way of cutting the wages bill by almost £1m , through ‘ natural wastage ’ , pay freezes but also , for the first time in Virgin 's history , through redundancies . |
| 8 | The main objective in changing the standard is to increase the effectiveness of audit reporting , which is one of the ways of closing the expectations gap between the auditors and users of financial statements . |
| 9 | Chairman , back in nineteen eighty when the County Council 's original structure plan submission was examined , the panel who subsequently the Secretary of State rejected the proposal for a policy to control development in the open countryside outside the nationally designated areas , primarily to suggest that on the grounds that the agricultural policy in the plan were equally capable of achieving the objectives sort by the proposed open countryside policy . |
| 10 | A TOP Catholic public school was yesterday accused of hindering a police investigation into a pervert priest . |
| 11 | Terry Roach , 41 , convicted of killing a police officer by running him over in a truck , serving life in the Phillips Correctional Institution , Georgia and Michael Hamilton , aged 40 , convicted of the contract killing of his wife , sentenced to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin . |
| 12 | Estimates of the cost of covering the tailings lake with soil varied from £2 million to £7 million . |