Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fife is fast becoming a jobs disaster area , ’ he warned . |
| 2 | He re-sat the ‘ O ’ levels at the next available opportunity ( November 1979 ) and crashed once more , thus having to abandon his initial ambition of becoming a police officer . |
| 3 | We are continuing tests on the undergravel plates which we thought may be slightly brittle , utilising a 30″ plate in one of our office tanks . |
| 4 | An important effect of adopting a Loans Fund ( or any other ‘ loans pool ’ ) is that a distinction has to be made between loan repayment and loan redemption : |
| 5 | Sheene , who now lives in Australia , was opening a watersports resort in the Cotswolds . |
| 6 | Flying was even better than she had hoped : better than skiing , better than driving a sports car . |
| 7 | But there was little celebration in the Kiwi camp on gaining a finals spot . |
| 8 | The height and extent of the inbuilt hurdles in the way of reforming a police force are not commonly appreciated . |
| 9 | The district court originally gave the gold to the successful salvage team , the Columbus-America Discovery Group of Columbus , Ohio , by applying a finders-keepers rule known as the law of finds . |
| 10 | However , in order to prevent students gaining an honours degree by ‘ attrition ’ , a maximum number of modules are allowed to be taken , if a student extends Stage II beyond six terms , in order to retain honours eligibility . |
| 11 | It would mean effectively establishing a Securities Exchange Commission lookalike to monitor it . |
| 12 | The turmoil in foreign exchange markets of the late 1960s was perceived by the EC member countries as placing in jeopardy the successes achieved in establishing a customs union and the common agricultural policy . |
| 13 | In addition it is developing a Skills Audit Service based upon APL and a special service aimed at Employment Training Managers . |
| 14 | Developing a systems approach |
| 15 | Nearby , the New England Medical Centre in Boston is also developing a MBS application . |
| 16 | Another key objective in developing a GIS user interface is to improve the data-handling procedures to support the user 's concept of maps as views of spatial data . |
| 17 | Addressing a Lions Club conference in 1990 , John Patten declared that ‘ Active citizenship has already fired the imagination of many people … |
| 18 | Motility of the ileal segment was measured by inserting a multilumen manometry catheter into the proximal end of the ileal segment . |
| 19 | Grannell also changed his pleas in respect of charges of assaulting PC Eric Moss and damaging a police car . |
| 20 | We will shortly be publishing a Courts Charter . |
| 21 | Police hunting a drugs importer who was involved in the death of a cocaine courier say he 's left the country . |
| 22 | On the technical side , the project will include a comparative assessment of two different strategies : adding statistical capability to a commercially available GIS , and writing a GIS module within a general statistical computing environment . |
| 23 | There 's a choice of 32 family hotels , many of which will be operating a Kids Club for youngsters aged between four and 11 . |
| 24 | In his report Developing an acquisitions system for a university library , Hindle proposes a system in which university departments are responsible for the development of research collections , while library staff control the provision of teaching materials . |
| 25 | We work with these ‘ linked ’ organisations on all aspects of archiving but especially with respect to developing an acquisitions policy and promoting the use of the specialist archive ; |
| 26 | Scientists are developing an anti-aids vaccine which could be used to immunise millions of people . |
| 27 | In operating an incomes policy on low pay , by changing the incidence of taxation on income and wealth , by cutting the rise in the welfare budget , while letting tax welfare be consumer led , the Government has brought about a revolutionary polarization in income and living standards , which can now be seen not only in the official data on income distribution , but also in widening class differences . |
| 28 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 29 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 30 | The company is talking to Sun about an Open Look port and is currently testing a Windows NT version . |