Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Face of comfort DIANA spent eight hours visiting a hospice for sufferers from cancer yesterday .
2 The increased seating capacity which would be provided by even an extra fifty coaches leaving a town over ten to twenty years , at a time of rapid urban population increase , points to how tiny a fraction of the population ever travelled by stage coach .
3 The Financial Times of Feb. 21 reported that the credit was conditional on the 1991-92 budget incorporating a " credible stabilization package " .
4 There is redundant data-ink : each column repeats its one datum at least eight times counting the three visible verticals , the four sides of the top , and the height of each column 's shading .
5 Marianne Brace spent eight months taking the Ashleys back to Pimlico , Brasted , Machynlleth and Tybrith , in order to produce a valuable archive document of an amazing , late-twentieth-century success story .
6 For the first time since it was shown at the Berlin Secession in 1902 , the National Gallery has reconstructed Edvard Munch 's ‘ The Frieze of Life ’ ( until 7 February 1993 ) , a loose association of forty or fifty pictures illustrating the important and highly autobiographical themes of love , anxiety and death , to which the artist makes a first reference in his correspondence in 1893 .
7 Fraser spent eleven months racing the British entry in last year 's America 's cup … his single-handed experience is rather less
8 Or it could be part of the training sessions , let's have what we were doing yesterday , skill drills , but you 've got to practice it and practice it , until eventually from those forty contacts using a ratio of ten to one , we get four appointments .
9 His new position reflected the fact that the SHP , now his coalition partner , included 22 deputies representing a Kurdish party , the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , which had had its official recognition withdrawn .
10 Already they keep me busy coming and consulting me about their topics to write on , and that , with 12 hours teaching a week , means that it is no holiday .
11 An educational programme had been done and 12 hours training every two years was required to keep the licence .
12 A major stumbling block is likely to be the include the redrawing of voting rights and a redistribution of wealth , with another 22 clubs demanding a share of the BSkyB TV cash .
13 There are short promo films on each of the 12 cities staging the matches directed by internationally respected film- makers such as Fellini , Rosi and Bertolucci ; the poster design is by Italy 's most acclaimed living artist , Burri ; Giorgio Moroder provides the theme music .
14 Guinness Publishing Built on the success of the world famous Guinness Book of Records , Guinness Publishing today boasts a list of over 140 titles covering an extensive range of subjects .
15 He had been there about forty minutes watching the comings and goings of the little business .
16 " The Supreme Soviet does not recognize the legality of state authority of the USSR on the territory of Estonia , " said the declaration , which had been backed by 73 of the 105 deputies following a stormy debate .
17 Pickets turned up at Hadfields on 12 March seeking a confrontation .
18 The Jardin des Tuileries is Paris ' garden ; sixty-four acres housing a glorious Orangerie , exotic blooms and a mini Arc de Triomphe which was built to celebrate Napoleon 's many triumphs .
19 On my machine at least the re-programming does n't work for shifted keys and what you actually get is the 2 key producing the S. I have fiddled around with different forms of getting ANSI.SYS to do it but so far I have failed .
20 The 43 nations attending the week long London Dumping Convention eventually agreed to end all depositing of industrial waste at sea by 1995 .
21 Dreamflight Airshow , Cranfield , September 20 Overshadowed at Cranfield due to Vulcan XH558 's last display ( see also page 26 ) was Westland Whirlwind Srs 2 G-AYXT making a rare appearance in the flying display .
22 The complementary DNA ( cDNA ) was labelled with P 3 2 -dATP using the random priming method and used at a concentration of 5×10 6 cpm of labelled cDNA per millilitre hybridisation solution .
23 Today the activities of 9,000 students and 1,000 staff are accommodated not only in the parkland campus of 330 acres surrounding the Trent Building but also within the adjacent Medical School and University Hospital and in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences some 10 miles to the south .
24 The four double blind challenges that were done were negative and only 30% maintained remission for longer than 12 months indicating no influence of elimination diets on the duration of remission .
25 Wood carver Donald Foster has spent more than 1,000 hours during the past 12 months restoring the altar of the English Martyrs Catholic Church at Sleights near Whitby .
26 2 Circumstances importing an obligation of confidence The courts have found it difficult to determine a generally applicable test of the circumstances in which an obligation of confidence will arise .
27 Earnings per share fell 4.6% to 3.7 pence reflecting the increased number of shares issued following the flotation .
28 For example , the data of Vesnaver and Breslauer [ 13 ] on the thermodynamics of melting of two 13-mer single strand DNA oligomers indicate ΔH helix and TΔS helix values that , in both cases , average close to -10 kJ mol -1 per nucleotide at 300 K. Making the same assumption that ΔS h and ΔS hb contribute little to single strand stability , the adverse entropy change per base stack equates with only ∼2 kJ mol -1 per rotor restricted ( TΔS at 300 K ) .
29 The council accepts there are far more than 30 youngsters needing a proper base in Darlington .
30 The IFPA maintained that the sale was part of its work to halt the spread of AIDS ( acquired immune deficiency syndrome ) but conservative groups won their case against the free availability of contraception on the basis of a 1985 law limiting the supply of contraceptives to chemists , sexually transmitted disease clinics , family planning clinics , and doctors ' surgeries .
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