Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients were selected from a group of 496 patients with insulin dependent diabetes who attended our clinic regularly , according to the following criteria : they were aged 18–60 , had insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of at least five years ' duration , had a stable body mass index not exceeding 30 kg/m , a glycated haemoglobin concentration of less than 10% , were not hypertensive ( supine blood pressure less than 160/95 mm Hg and no antihypertensive treatment ) , had persistent microalbuminuria — that is , urinary albumin excretion between 30 and 300 mg/24 h at least twice during the previous six months — were not pregnant or wanting to be pregnant , and had no chronic disease other than diabetes . |
| 2 | Fork truck driver not looking where going . |
| 3 | Mathcad is described as an easy-to-use ‘ handy scratch pad for quick number crunching ’ , which is positioned as an alternative to popular spreadsheets and which boasts a user base already nearing that of Borland 's Quattro Pro and Excel in the US . |
| 4 | To make the comparison fair , we should have to assume that built into each typist 's chair is a gun , wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot , his place being taken by a reserve typist ( squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line , but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection ) . |
| 5 | Afterwards I sit with him in the room at the back , the late afternoon light still coming in through the windows . |
| 6 | Indonesia also has a large electrification programme underway involving hydro-electric and thermal power station projects but these and a number of large oil and petrochemical projects are threatened by balance of payments problems . |
| 7 | CAR demand failed to respond to the Budget boost last month and , with election uncertainty now affecting business , manufacturers are pessimistic about the outlook and are cutting sales forecasts . |
| 8 | It was not quite a desert Maginot line , but a solid enough substitute , with the artillery component sometimes consisting of battle tanks sitting hull-down in specially excavated ‘ scrapes ’ . |
| 9 | Cloakroom : Fitted with a Sage suite briefly comprising of close coupled w.c. , wall hung wash hand basin , radiator . |
| 10 | She shifted her free shoulder and let the blouse slip off it , then squeezed in her elbows to make the cleavage look really inviting . |
| 11 | Now her eyes , with their clever shading of amber and gold , shone back at her , large and lustrous — and the lipstick she 'd chosen made her mouth look lusciously inviting . |
| 12 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
| 13 | Despite the skilled electronic engineers and software writers at Rugby , GEC has sub-contracted further work on the Hall robot 's control system to an ex-Hall Automation employee now working on his own . |
| 14 | OIES is an international research institute currently specialising in the study of economic and political aspects of world oil and gas , the energy problems of developing countries and the economic development of oil-exporting countries . |
| 15 | I have tried the new Marshall Bluesbreaker FX pedal but this did not sound like a real valve amp just starting to distort . |
| 16 | A US Defense Department proposal now working its way through Congress includes funds for a Strategic Environmental Research Program . |
| 17 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 18 | I was thinking of writing to TSB and the programme desk tomorrow advertising our group , I 'll send a draft letter so you can comment on it . |
| 19 | Some of our competitors in the north have been er really struggling and erm offering four pounds off on a seven pound fifty entrance fee so bearing that in mind we 're v v very confident that we 've im improved our market share in that area too . |
| 20 | As one would anticipate from the standard grief reaction commonly lasting two years , the recovery process is itself a grief reaction to the loss of a former " friend " in the addictive substance or behaviour . |
| 21 | Arousal curve well understanding the need for arousal for me helped because I now understand that having nerves while you 're speaking is not unnatural it is n't something that you 're able to get rid of but you need to be able to work with it and practice to improve performance . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , in Chungking , we see the Kuomintang general villainously plotting to defeat the guerrillas , with his equally villainous lieutenant , both dressed in rakish American-style uniforms . |
| 23 | I was amazed to see the club shop still flogging large glossies of ol Frogslegs . |
| 24 | The piece of Interactive that Lachman bought is its 17-year-old 60-man network software products and consulting operation , a revenue stream currently producing around $9.8m a year . |
| 25 | To commemorate the cockney team 's unceremonious hiding , the Sunday Mail 's resident cartoonist , Malky McCormick , drew a caricature of Macari in a gangster suit furtively avoiding a crowd of shifty looking punters . |
| 26 | However , at the time that Penrose produced his theorem , I was a research student desperately looking for a problem with which to complete my Ph.D . |
| 27 | A ‘ real ’ measure is necessary to prevent the turnover variable simply capturing trends in the price level . |
| 28 | The financial strain on the firm can be eased by : ( 1 ) effecting sufficient insurance cover ( see Chapter 5 ) ; ( 2 ) the inclusion of suitable provisions ( Clause 20 ) in the partnership deed clearly setting out the procedures to be adopted for the continuing partners to have the option to purchase the deceased 's share from his estate on an appropriate time scale or providing for an automatic accruer to the surviving partners ; ( 3 ) the inclusion of provisions in the deceased 's will enlarging the discretion of the personal representatives as to the time for realisation of assets in the estate and generally as to arrangements which may be concluded with the continuing partners ; and ( 4 ) where ( which is not unusual ) one of the personal representatives is a continuing partner , the inclusion in the will of specific authority for that partner in his capacity as personal representative and trustee to conclude agreements with the firm . |
| 29 | A blink from a monster victory now threatening disaster . |
| 30 | Each layer or sheet , of which there may be 50 or 100 altogether , contains fibres of the protein collagen all pointing in the same direction within the plane of the layer , so that each sheet has a readily ( if you have an electron microscope ) discernible direction or polarity associated with it . |