Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan involves building an enormous tapering chimney , up to 3,000 feet high and 1,000 feet across the base . |
| 2 | 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 ) : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were caught using an electronic tone pad to bypass call charges at kiosks on their campus . |
| 5 | The blue of the main sail covers on the booms should now be added using an ultramarine blue and white mixture . |
| 6 | Others suggest attaching an attractive passport-size photograph of yourself . |
| 7 | The initiative 's aim is to encourage children in schools , to think about the environment , and involve producing an environmental teaching pack , running an environmental course for teachers , and developing a green software application for us on personal computer in schools . |
| 8 | However , in the latter , reasonable control has been reported using an annual rotation of beef cattle and sheep . |
| 9 | Key personnel in Dorset-Hampshire companies are being interviewed using an open unstructured personal questionnaire . |
| 10 | Key personnel have been interviewed using an open unstructured personal questionnaire approach . |
| 11 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 12 | Never has anyone even considered building an international airport , moving all the necessary supplies over a distance of 13 000 kilometres between hemispheres . |
| 13 | United 's defence stopped expecting an offside flag but Alexei Mikhailichenko was allowed to continue and put Rangers ahead . |
| 14 | If the site is promising enough compared with all others , then , and only then , would we consider funding an underwater project . |
| 15 | Even if the bidder 's shareholders do not include ABI members , the bidder might consider providing an open offer and clawback to its shareholders as a matter of best practice and good shareholder relations , provided underwriters are agreeable . |
| 16 | Paddy 's nose , the bridge was smashed giving an upward tilt and a hog-like look . |
| 17 | This means that the account given is rooted in the natural setting of what is being described , and is thus very different from both the formal interview and laboratory research , which involve creating an artificial situation in which the data is collected . |
| 18 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ People tried making an early getaway to beat the traffic but they 've all met up and combined with others returning home from work . ’ |
| 19 | Unfortunately many surveyors in private practice do not consider marketing an essential part of practice management . |
| 20 | Finn dashed through the work-room and out of the door , returning carrying an elaborate gilded throne made of cardboard . |
| 21 | If you do decide to move , you should consider transferring an existing mortgage to your new property or getting a new one up to £30,000 , even if you could afford to buy the property outright . |
| 22 | Dr Keith Mumby , a clinical ecologist , faced five charges when he appeared before the GMC last summer , but the charges did not include practising an unscientific form of medicine . |
| 23 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 24 | Greening the Machinery of Government suggests that this duty should include ensuring an optimum use of natural resources , reduction in waste , and the enforcement of the " polluter pays " principle . |
| 25 | The queries can be framed using an updated version of the existing StreetTalk Directory Assistance tool . |
| 26 | After emptying the stomach , intermittent suction was applied using an intermittent suction unit ( Ohmeda , Columbia , USA ) that applies suction for 20 seconds in each 32 second cycle . |
| 27 | Questions were open and she often made interesting an unexpected connections which clearly stimulated and reassured the children . |
| 28 | She came wearing an enormous hat and I was totally in awe of her . |
| 29 | A list of contact frequencies was prepared giving an expected 12 frequency changes for the whole route . |
| 30 | ‘ I was just imagining spending an entire life closeted with only the company of your own sex … ’ |