Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using mostly commercial housepaint , his work is process-generated and involves pouring and intervention . |
| 2 | It is the service sector , producing little foreign currency , that has swollen . |
| 3 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 4 | The little England midfielder is nursing badly bruised ankle ligaments after a challenge from Coventry 's Stewart Robson at the weekend . |
| 5 | With regard to the work being undertaken by Scottish Enterprise , it is hoped that early in the new year there will be a version of the work being done — not including commercially confidential information . |
| 6 | Two weeks before joining the study the degree of compliance with dietary treatment was assessed by a dietitian and a standard gluten free diet , including commercially available gluten free products , was recommended . |
| 7 | HBsAg , HBeAg , anti-HBe and anti-hepatitis delta virus were assayed using commercially available radioimmunoassay kits ( Ausria-II , HBeAg , -RIA , and anti-delta , Abbott Laboratories , Chicago , Illinois , USA ) . |
| 8 | Such reluctance is reinforced by the relatively small savings which would be made by reducing labour costs , as the capital intensity of production is so high , and also by the fact that there is less opportunity to shed labour in the downturn when using highly automated plant because running such plant at all usually requires a certain fixed minimum number of workers . |
| 9 | Travelling around the United States to the different venues could become costly but , at present , American Airlines , the competition 's official airline and the company that will fly England , are leading a price war which is bringing down internal flight prices by up to 50 per cent . |
| 10 | The whole sequence of events follows a logical pattern which could have started with unusually high flooding of the Nile , bringing down red earth and microcosms which polluted the water . |
| 11 | SENT-OFF Ipswich keeper Craig Forrest pleaded his innocence after bringing down United striker Adrian Littlejohn outside the penalty area after just two minutes . |
| 12 | Hoult escaped with a caution after bringing down old boy David Kelly on a diagonal run inside the area . |
| 13 | She had , to begin with , colonised the boudoir , rearranging the furniture and bringing down pretty china from the spare bedroom , so as , she planned , to sit there often by herself . |
| 14 | As the Chinese President Yang Shangkun visited Tehran and Esfahan in central Iran on Oct. 30-Nov. 2 , unnamed officials in the US administration were quoted in the Washington Post of Oct. 31 as claiming that Iran was developing a nuclear weapon using calutron equipment — capable of producing highly enriched uranium — purchased from China . |
| 15 | YORKSHIRE cricket is blazing the international trail after always accepting only home-grown talent in the past Aussie paceman Craig McDermott ( above left ) was the first overseas star expected to join the county , but the move fell through and Tendulkar came over from India instead . |
| 16 | Iraqi troops advanced swiftly across the desert , encountering only minor artillery resistance , and entered the capital , Kuwait City , at around 7.00 a.m . |
| 17 | ‘ I have got better at using less pretentious imagery . |
| 18 | In the report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation , interviews with 48 households with pre-payment meters found people were limiting fuel consumption by having fewer cooked meals and using less hot water . |
| 19 | Nick Polkinhorne ( using less sophisticated software than Mr Ferris : an overhead projector ) offered a demonstration of how to use TeleOrdering ; Kevin Allard did the same with First Edition , the EDI service for the book trade set up last year by Book Data and Vista . |
| 20 | There is fear that such rules will be over-bureaucratic , while demanding less financial disclosure than the UK requires . |
| 21 | Elsewhere , in Aquitaine , the hoards show a very low level of mixing of coins from various mints , suggesting only local circulation around a single centre , and there is virtually no sign of coins entering the region from the north or north-east . |
| 22 | Excuses abound : world markets have collapsed , diet-conscious Europeans are eating less red meat , some people in Britain fear it will give them mad cow disease . |
| 23 | Then all infected timber is cut out so that all affected wood , including apparently sound wood up to 1/2m ( 1–1/2ft ) away from the visible extremities of the attack , is removed . |
| 24 | The acquisition of the Longman Corpus enabled investigations to proceed in a more rigorous fashion using much increased test data sample sizes . |
| 25 | The BHF says the best way to slim is by losing just over 1lb a week , reducing energy intake to 1000 calories a day , cutting down on fat and alcohol and eating only moderate salt . |
| 26 | Section 36(5) stresses his independence allowing only minimal involvement at an earlier stage of the investigation . |
| 27 | Freshwater mussels perform a useful task in the established pool , sucking in algae-laden water , retaining the algae , and disgorging clear water . |
| 28 | The first of these approaches has resulted in a programme called the ‘ Management Charter Initiative ’ , which is currently planning a nationwide training initiative with a highly flexible approach — bringing together in-house provision with higher education provision and suggesting a laddered approach to management development throughout the whole careers of those involved . |
| 29 | Many doctors and scientists now recognise that acupuncture can be of value for treating pain , and with this have come interesting new applications , bringing together traditional acupuncture and modern conventional medicine , as in electroacupuncture , and the combining of acupuncture analgesia with anaesthetics for major surgery . |
| 30 | One of the most controversial religious works of the 1960s , John Robinson 's Honest to God , is a well-written and clear introduction ( from a Christian perspective ) to the problem of defining what God is , and the difficulty of bringing together theological description , popular imagery and the language of worship . |