Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Primitive streak stage embryos can also be manipulated using a dissecting microscope but the lower resolution makes such manipulations less precise . |
| 2 | This project involves building a new econometric macro-model of the UK economy that will incorporate this new theory if it proves consistent with UK evidence . |
| 3 | The plan involves building an enormous tapering chimney , up to 3,000 feet high and 1,000 feet across the base . |
| 4 | It 's at such times , as you sit eating a damp sandwich as water drips from your nose , as you scour the map for all the things you ca n't see , that you wonder why the hell you do it . |
| 5 | Slides were developed using a Fast Red TR substrate ( Sigma ) and viewed under fluorescence conditions as described previously . |
| 6 | The aid was developed using a commercial expert system shell , but we found it necessary to integrate the shell with a spreadsheet for data input , with an algorithmic language for certain numeric calculations and with a graphics package for presentation of the output . |
| 7 | Phase one will be developed using a tension-leg platform ( TLP ) installed in 2933 feet of water with 24 integral well slots and two subsea satellite wells . |
| 8 | If you intend using a small cast will it consist of the most fluent readers — those with the strongest voices — the best dancers — the top recorder group ? |
| 9 | By mid-afternoon , with DeFreitas absent nursing a sore groin , and after Botham and Lawrence had shared a fruitless new-ball partnership , Gooch 's men were looking right down the barrel . |
| 10 | This is thought to include demanding a substantial fee for each transaction , indemnities against any change of government or government policy , and for the Government — not the banks — to be unequivocally identified as responsible for its introduction . |
| 11 | Schmidt ( 1991 ) reviews a wide variety of von Restorff-like effects and argues that many of them can be explained using a single theory of distinctiveness . |
| 12 | The following regional data excludes the Highlands and Islands figures because the 1990/91 survey for this region was undertaken using a different methodology which was designed to reflect the unique nature of the area 's economy . |
| 13 | S phase was calculated using a rectangular distribution . |
| 14 | Lattice enthalpies can also be calculated using a theoretical model . |
| 15 | The user will normally wish to express this as a percentage of the records loaded , which is : The value of P SYNONYMS can be calculated using an iterative procedure by combining the expressions given in equations ( 6. 13 ) and ( 6.15 ) : |
| 16 | As a community are we willing to risk building a just peace rather than arming ourselves for war ? |
| 17 | Amplitude histograms were routinely binned finely ( 5μV ) and smoothed using a moving gaussian filter or by low-pass filtering in the Fourier domain . |
| 18 | This research project first involves contacting a representative sample of 12,000 British manufacturing companies . |
| 19 | Film producer Liam Brennan , who may face extradition to the US on deception charges , admitted using a worthless cheque . |
| 20 | In 1969 a doping scandal at FC Bologna in Italy led to the entire team being found guilty ; in Uruguay the following year two internationalists admitted using an exotic African drug and in the World Cup prior to Argentina , FIFA banned the Haitian internationalist Ernst Joseph for taking the proscribed drug phenlmetrazin . |
| 21 | An end to end anastomosis was formed using a single layer of interrupted 6/0 silk . |
| 22 | Planning involves simulating a difficult or irreversible search . |
| 23 | Here , an allergy to chloroform was successfully treated using a homoeopathic preparation of chloroform . |
| 24 | It coped easily with gently curved edges , and was in its element coasting up and down a slightly sloping lawn , producing those satisfying stripes that can make mowing a distinct pleasure . |
| 25 | The technique known as open access endoscopy , which has been introduced at the Royal Victoria Hospital , means that the inside of a patient 's stomach can be examined using a tube-like lens . |
| 26 | Play-pens are now having to be made to a new British Standard , which involves using a simulated ‘ bite ’ test . |
| 27 | One involves generating a short-lived species in the gas phase , by photolysis , thermolysis , chemical reaction , discharge , etc . |
| 28 | Many cements can be clearly recognized using a combined transmitted-reflected light petrological microscope . |
| 29 | Quartz overgrowth cements can be clearly recognized using a petrological microscope if clay- or hematite-rich coatings ( commonly inaccurately termed ‘ dust ’ rims ) are trapped between overgrowth cement and grain ( Fig. 5.26a , b ) . |
| 30 | Several wild song thrushes in different parts of Britain — and some blackbirds too — have been heard singing a new song that bears a striking resemblance to the distinctive electronic warble of British Telecom 's ‘ trimphones ’ . |