Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To stop this occuring prematurely preservatives are adjusted to suit the level of concentration supplied . |
| 2 | Here the National Coal Board is investing Government money to sink new deep mines , each costing about £50 million . |
| 3 | To be strictly accurate there are two new VCRs , each costing under £400 . |
| 4 | The economic crisis and in particular the slump produced lower totals for the next two years , but by 1939 , the number of holidays booked had risen to a substantial 62,500 , comprising 29,500 holiday-makers travelling overseas , and 33,000 taking home bookings . |
| 5 | The nine-coach train carrying just twenty-eight passengers each paying around £2,600 a time , was billed as ‘ the highest point yet reached in luxury train travel ’ , its on-train cuisine described as ‘ simply the best on any train anywhere in the world ’ . |
| 6 | the historical biography of the relationship between carer and cared for : how far was it possible for people with a long history on one particular level to relate to each other on a level of physical intimacy , faced with the disgust that caring often demands . |
| 7 | It is quite clear that the ICAEW , with 85% of the total registrations , has an overwhelming dominance as the regulator of firms auditing listed companies , with the ICAS and ICAI each regulating about 7% of the total registrations and the ACCA regulating just over 1% . |
| 8 | The Result : A warm , natural looking even colour and cut which rally suited Sarah 's face shape and skin tones . |
| 9 | What about erm these little going away gift do you want them do you wan na get some choccies for them or |
| 10 | Apple Computer Inc , as reported briefly and bittily , since news of these playing away launches tends to come in in dribs and drabs , used the Cebit computer fair in Hannover as the occasion to launch three new Apple Workgroup Servers , along with AppleSearch , its new information access and retrieval service for Mac workgroups . |
| 11 | During the whole study period the same strict policy was adopted : patients underwent endoscopy at admission as soon as they were haemodynamically stable and emergency sclerotherapy was initiated ass a primary therapy in case of active or recent variceal bleeding using either polidocanol or more recently cyanoacrylate . |
| 12 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 13 | The name Fleet was an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘ tidal inlet ’ and the principle sources of the water flowing into the River Fleet , were the heights of Hampstead Heath , also the grounds of Kenwood House at Highgate , all joining just north of Camden Town , and flowing south to join the River Thames , close to the Blackfriars monastery which gave its name to the bridge over the Thames at that point . |
| 14 | Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour |
| 15 | If there was a long line of people number of seven for the seven dwarfs and they were all standing there side by side and they had their hands over there face like so and the altogether , at the same time , in unison they parted the hand to reveal the facial expression that is more of a dramatic experience to people looking than just by standing here . |
| 16 | It would be no good putting together menu and arranging to do two thousand covers if you 've got spacing for twenty persons , would it ? |
| 17 | Britain , Sweden and West Germany are each giving around £100 million ; Canada , Japan , Kuwait and the EEC have ensured that total aid is more than £400 million . |
| 18 | Some could have increased overtime working , but for those using continuous or semi-continuous production processes this was technically difficult , and for those employing mainly women infeasible . |
| 19 | It should be recognized by those putting forward proposals for joint research projects that these will make demands on our information resources , and that the costs of such usage should form an element in each proposal . |
| 20 | In women younger than 65 years reports have fallen into two main groups — those finding about 50% prevalence and those reporting very much lower figures . |
| 21 | However , such strategies have perhaps become less important for the very high income earners who , in recent years , have enjoyed a large reduction in the taxes they have had to pay following the reduction in the high rates of income tax since 1979 : for example , in real terms , those earning over £400 per week take home on average an extra £55 more in 1986 then they did in 1979 . |
| 22 | Your pension is calculated as a proportion of your final pay , which could mean literally the last year you work or for example ( and this is a requirement for controlling directors and those earning over £100,000 ) the average of three consecutive years during the last ten . |
| 23 | Employees earning between £8 500 and £15 000 received benefits worth around £380 , those earning over £50 000 received £3 375 . |
| 24 | Previously , following changes made in 1985 , the rate was 5 per cent of all earnings for those on between £43 and £75 a week , 7 per cent for those earning from £75 to £115 a week , and 9 per cent for those earning over £115 . |
| 25 | For married women this tendency was even more pronounced — Temporary workers working part-time were also more likely to have taken temporary jobs because they did not want Permanent jobs , whilst among those working full-time inability to find a permanent job was by far the most frequent reason given . |
| 26 | She could n't look at him , but she was vitally aware of his ragged breathing only inches above her . |
| 27 | If there are two parties each putting forward programmes which they are pledged to carry out if elected to government , and which they are able to carry out because they possess sufficient internal cohesion , then the electorate in choosing a programme ( and a programme at that which has been drawn up to appeal to their interests ) mandates a party to carry out its programme and holds the party accountable for its adequate fulfillment at the next election . |
| 28 | Homicide affect superseded occurs diminished likelihood provocation led lose grievous effect category [ ‘ gauge ’ is correct ] analogous occurred accused alleged foresee [ ‘ proceeded ’ is correct ] inadvertently commit [ ‘ offence ’ is correct ] rebut offering argument adjudged admissible defendant [ ‘ appealed ’ is correct ] arguing led misled principal consensus existence irresistible paid parallel privilege believe indefensible lent its permissible occurring separately responsibility independent omission definitely abets accessory absence . |
| 29 | The E C C rather inward looking Even Turkey is knocking on the door , what are your Poland , Hungary , Romania knocking on the door and coming in . |
| 30 | It was widely expected that the formal ban on direct trade with the Soviet Union would be lifted in 1990 leaving only mainland China , Albania , Cuba and North Korea on the prohibited list . |