Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 32 | I tried using some spray furniture polish , rubbed well in , on the areas that were jamming . |
| 33 | In 1963 , Roy Kerr , a New Zealander , found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes . |
| 34 | A large number of young men reported eating white bread , chips , meat pies and sweets regularly . |
| 35 | A large number of young men reported eating white bread , chips , meat pies and sweets regularly . |
| 36 | ‘ If we stopped seeing each other that would solve the problem , would n't it ? ’ |
| 37 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 38 | I stopped seeing those flats years ago . |
| 39 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 40 | Indian survivors abandoned traditional dress to avoid summary execution and stopped using indigenous languages in public . |
| 41 | ‘ After I stopped eating factory-farmed meat I now can not stand the feeling of eating flesh . |
| 42 | It is a one-fifth scale model of Endeavour , built using traditional methods , but also allowing for modern safety requirements . |
| 43 | The 68060 is a static , modular , superscalar and superpipelined part built using 0.8-micron CMOS technology — BiCMOS techniques will be incorporated in the planned 68080 and 68100 , Motorola says . |
| 44 | One µg of mRNA was reverse transcribed using M-MLV RT and subjected to PCR using the following internal primer pairs : ( 1 ) AD13/AD15 , ( 2 ) AD13/8E2 ( 3 ) AD15/3200 . |
| 45 | Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression . |
| 46 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
| 47 | This involved using existing data and also meetings with representatives from organisations involved in economic development in the valley . |
| 48 | A third , and crucially important , experiment involved using external stimuli to influence the content of dreaming itself . |
| 49 | One involved using whole word shape to help determine segment positions and to allow for letter shape variations within words . |
| 50 | The business proposition ‘ involved using specialised IT applications to develop a bespoke service to the design , construction and maintenance of buildings , with an integrated costing service that enabled design , build and cost to be integrated ’ . |
| 51 | People stopped building new ghettoes in which to practise the old persecutions ? |
| 52 | Synthetic PYY was iodinated by conventional chloramine t oxidation and labelled PYY purified using high resolution , reverse phase , high pressure liquid chromatography . |
| 53 | Whilst desktop publishing software has the power to manipulate text and graphics created using conventional business software it is , thankfully , totally incapable of controlling the presentation and style without some degree of human intervention . |
| 54 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 55 | Japanese refiners stopped producing leaded petrol in December 1987 . |
| 56 | About 200 people reported seeing some kind of craft landing near the base in 1980 . |
| 57 | Witnesses reported seeing dead soldiers and hearing rocket and machine-gun fire . |
| 58 | A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California 's rivers as a solution to the water crisis . |
| 59 | But the operation , involved keeping thirty officers on standby , , including undercover officers and traffic patrols , was expensive … thirty thousand has been spent in overtime alone … so the operation was scaled down … again the displays started … again the Police moved in … |
| 60 | The job , which involved surveying three wells for tubing change-out , was doubly challenging since the only way to reach the plant was to drive along the beach in a four-wheel drive vehicle . |