Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make regular water changes using conditioned water and occasionally some more ‘ starter ’ |
| 2 | When the plate was heated and the resin brought to melting point , myriads of dust particles adhered , touching each other but with minute spaces between . |
| 3 | A relaxed Mr Keating , his Dutch-born wife , Annita , and their three daughters , posed for photographers at the prime ministerial harbour-front Sydney residence a day after defying political gravity and triumphing in a poll widely thought unwinnable . |
| 4 | A summary of the team 's findings released on Aug. 25 showed no evidence of Iraq 's capability of producing complete guidance and control systems for ballistic missiles . |
| 5 | I remember seeing that smile and hearing that impeccably cheerful voice . |
| 6 | you 're , you 're absolutely right , I 'm afraid in , in erm I , I , re remember seeing that discrepancy and I 'm not quite sure why it did n't get into my notes |
| 7 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 8 | It was raining that morning as Sir Maxwell Shaw walked down the village street , a black Labrador at his heels . |
| 9 | The tailplane and fin were of steel tube and the undercarriage of split type , using combined oleo and rubber in compression shock absorbers . |
| 10 | However , on the plus side , many submissions indicated that the designers were aware of the opportunities for heat recovery , possibly using combined heat and power ( CHP ) . |
| 11 | Preaching economic death and disaster may not be Labour 's best tactic . |
| 12 | While you are dressing him , you should make the patient aware of what you are doing by naming each garment as you put it on , and showing him that it is the right way round . |
| 13 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 14 | It is welcome that the TECs are administering that scheme and that a minimum reward is at least available in that situation . |
| 15 | They can not stop huge armies like those of NATO and the Warsaw pact from clobbering each other if they want to . |
| 16 | In fact , both groups did well in recognising black speakers who used Creole syntactic and phonological features ( speakers 7 , 8 and 12 ) while both did badly when presented with a white speaker using Creole syntax and phonology ( speaker 2 ) . |
| 17 | All work was carried out using remote-controlled equipment and monitored on closed-circuit television screens . |
| 18 | 5/The picture is completed by using dry brushing and some fine lines for sharper detail . |
| 19 | Who is this strategy not fair and reasonable , reflecting political maturity and a finer sense of the political art than other communities have managed to achieve ? |
| 20 | Pioneers such as Octavia Hill showed what could be done in altering and repairing sub-standard property and in new methods of housing management and rent collection . |
| 21 | This is not always easy ; we become skilled at using professional jargon and expect to hear it from others , but if we believe that people who use services should be involved in planning , then it is important that the language we use can be understood . |
| 22 | The British Oxygen Company ( BOC ) has recently conducted trials using liquid nitrogen and a specially developed vacuum cleaner to kill house dust mites in carpets . |
| 23 | The lads were nudging each other and pointing at me . |
| 24 | ‘ I felt people were nudging each other and pointing at me and saying , ‘ Him , the juvenile lead ? ’ |
| 25 | They are saying , ’ Let us get on with building economic strength and working actively to secure convergence . ’ |
| 26 | We were all eating roast venison and at the same time discussing vegetarianism . |
| 27 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 28 | Such as cutting the pregnancy rate in under 16s by half , reducing the accident rate by a third , encouraging healthier eating and more exercise . |
| 29 | For in accepting that age and , more importantly , insanity could influence the degree of individuals ' responsibility for their actions it was also accepting that in some cases , and to some extent at least , human actions could be seen as determined . |
| 30 | Staining can be either a one-step procedure ( " direct " — using labelled antibody or lee-tin ) or a two-step procedure [ " indirect " - using two interacting reagents ( generally antibodies ) where the first is unlabelled and the second labelled ] . |