Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France has had seventeen constitutions since 1789 and , as the figure suggests , seems rather to enjoy drawing up new ones . |
| 2 | MacDonald 's rescue plan for Norton involves bringing in new sources of finance , selling the German FUS subsidiary ( he says he 'll get £100,000 — Norton paid £8 million ) , and designing ( personally ) a new , lower-cost bike to replace the F1 . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , much smaller North West neighbour Liverpool is looking to continue building up domestic and regional aviation-related business following its becoming the first local authority-owned airport to transfer from the public to private sector when it was bought by British Aerospace in 1990 . |
| 4 | environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development . |
| 5 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 6 | Sometimes his route to the nearest safe place involved scrambling over loose rock , or entailed ladder climbing to escape from a stope , with his only source of light a guttering candle held in the hand , or stuck to his hat with a blob of clay . |
| 7 | His wife Josephine , 53 , said : ‘ John loves cleaning up old shell casings and turning them into umbrella stands . |
| 8 | THE propaganda machine which used to crank out the political fantasies of East European communists is being put to work turning out mushy romance novels . |
| 9 | The protests involved switching off domestic lights at pre-arranged times , while sounding whistles , pans and household instruments to urge the government to restore full democratic rights . |
| 10 | ‘ Central and local government , and public corporations , should be delaying any measures which involve laying off workers until the recovery is well established , while bringing forward measures which involve taking on extra staff ’ , it says . |
| 11 | The Russian side recognized Latvia 's right to buildings erected before June 17 , 1940 , and used by the military , and would discuss handing over military equipment to Latvia . |
| 12 | This may require additional information to be recorded on requisition forms etc , or involve setting up new registers , all of which will demand extra staff time , and could lead to some resistance . |
| 13 | Other duties will include setting up new hardware , installing new software , supervising equipment re-location , and assistance to Stationery on the supply and monitoring of computer consumables . |
| 14 | The following ‘ sums ’ ( from Greer 's CSE Mathematics Book 1 ) involve working out average wages : |
| 15 | They can often be seen climbing up creosoted telegraph-poles in a vain search for food . |
| 16 | ‘ Then stop making up stupid excuses . ’ |
| 17 | Many mothers can and do achieve this and are highly motivated to avoid cleaning up soiled nappies . |
| 18 | Soon the telescope should begin sending back extraordinary pictures of other galaxies . |
| 19 | The French network , Renatel , will begin linking up existing research computer systems next year . |
| 20 | Try to scan artwork as near to the size you want to use it in order to avoid taking up large amounts of memory and having to re-size with the desktop publishing software . |
| 21 | On June 30 , however , the delegates voted by a large majority against creating any new national structures of the type favoured by the government : 89 voted in favour of the status quo , compared with 11 in favour of appointing the proposed national body and 10 in favour of a compromise suggestion that Solidarity should develop a " formula of co-operation " with the government which did not entail setting up permanent structures . |
| 22 | Jammy barsteward this one , always seems to land on his feet when it involves getting in free to everton away games . |
| 23 | As was mentioned earlier , they enjoyed filling out psychological tests and had requested the opportunity to fill out an IQ test . |
| 24 | No doubt Georgiana began picking up Spanish from our numerous visits to Majorca . |
| 25 | A company which began serving up hot meals from an industrial unit on the Aycliffe Trading Estate has been taken to task by Sedgefield council . |
| 26 | The invading Iraqi forces had been accompanied by mukhabarat ( military intelligence ) officers who immediately began rounding up Iraqi opposition exiles in Kuwait City . |
| 27 | My ladies find it a sad chore since reading Latin does not come easily to them , and after a day spent poring over official parchments my own eyes ache so . ’ |
| 28 | It was used to justify the introduction of the poll tax and to justify breaking up metropolitan counties . |
| 29 | Trimming with secateurs avoids chopping up attractive leaves |
| 30 | Finally , some adventurous youngsters began diving off low rocky outcroppings on the shoreline , a practice which was copied by other members of the troupe . |