Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 2 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 3 | It contains three- and four-letter word picture cards , and children have to make up the words using eight cubes with letters on each side . |
| 4 | Smith devised a technique using eight pieces of latex rather than one overall mask , including convincing eyelids . |
| 5 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 6 | On Dec. 26 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) quoted a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) spokesman in Baghdad as saying that " the justifications for maintaining economic sanctions against Iraq no longer existed " . |
| 7 | Even quite elderly people , male or female , could often earn something towards their maintenance , while the practice of assisting low-wage earners with large families of young children was widespread . |
| 8 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 9 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 10 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 11 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 12 | An essay on the pitfalls of including political words in a dictionary is wildly funny . |
| 13 | Stooping down and keeping a very sharp lookout from under my hat , I coughed several times , splashed the water about , and then , moving very slowly and gathering dry sticks on the way ( as the local Indians might do ) , I went to the foot of the steep rock . |
| 14 | She dropped back and crouched to retrieve the shattered thing , gathering dry petals in the dip of her dress . |
| 15 | Judging by how well labels sell in the shops — and they do — the world and his wife must be using sticky labels on everything , including the kids . |
| 16 | When he 's not zapping helmetted contestants in front of a TV camera , he 's usually to be found pumping iron in a gym somewhere . |
| 17 | A binary number can easily be coded into the bars by using narrow bands for Os and wide bands of 1s ( or vice versa ) . |
| 18 | Moreover , subsistence plots produce goods at competitive prices by the working of long hours , using unpaid household labour and accepting low standards of subsistence . |
| 19 | We have facts about a charitable trust using ACE schemes to actually do my members ' jobs , do my members ' jobs in the home help service , do my members ' jobs in the social services — driving people about when they are not insured ; they do n't have PSV and as far as they 're concerned , ‘ so what ? ’ |
| 20 | National institutions and agencies , each responsible for one agenda , are charged with administering specific policies for each sector and each group of multi-nationals . |
| 21 | Inevitably the League began to acquire the characteristics of a political party rejecting the " self-denying ordinance " which prevented the Fabians from submitting political resolutions to the Party . |
| 22 | After her outburst , she now remained silent , darting odd looks of triumph at her betrayer . |
| 23 | Percentage change in ozone on 25 March at 56mbar resulting solely from chemical processes acting from the start of the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 24 | Change in the total ozone ( Dobson Units ) due to heterogeneous processes for the period 15 December to 25 March from the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 25 | Percentage of the model domain north of 25°N covered by polar stratospheric clouds at 56mbar for the simulations in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations ( run 1 ) , present-day levels of CO 2 but with model-calculated ozone concentrations ( run 2 ) , doubled CO 2 with climatological ozone concentrations ( run 3 ) , and doubled CO 2 and model determined ozone concentrations ( run 4 ) . |
| 26 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 27 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |
| 28 | LORD Whitelaw , the former deputy prime minster , warned yesterday of the danger of producing low-quality acts of parliament by overloading the 15-bill Queen 's Speech programme with additional ‘ instant legislation ’ . |
| 29 | The lawns are filled with the usual odd-ball cast of characters who like to congregate in Indian parks : little boys playing cricket in the dry water channels ; a lost-looking village goatherd with his flock ; picnicking Punjabi families with their tiffin-tins ; loving couples reclining against trees ; a saffron-robed Hindu ascetic sitting cross-legged on the grass ; a pair of elderly bent-backed colonels with identical walking sticks . |
| 30 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |