Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verapamil , a slow calcium channel blocker minimises cellular injury resulting from calcium influx into cells during hypoxia or ischaemia . |
| 2 | HP agreed to take a small stake in Convex earlier this year under an agreement that includes Convex using the PA RISC family in a massively-parallel computer system it is designing , and also involves each company taking some of the other 's products on an OEM basis . |
| 3 | As a polar case , Lindahl pricing involves each customer paying according to his/her marginal benefit from the good . |
| 4 | The cumbersome and time-consuming method of voting , which involves each MP walking between two tellers and announcing his name , was partly designed to stop members sending their footmen to vote for them . |
| 5 | For example , a mother and infant might establish a simple play routine which involves each partner taking a turn to ‘ blow a raspberry ’ . |
| 6 | One approach involves each teacher undertaking a form of self-evaluation . |
| 7 | The third strategy involves intermediate-sized males behaving opportunistically : they call from potential egg-laying sites but do not defend territories . |
| 8 | So you may start off by saying well two hundred pounds fits this case according to it 's seriousness , but you find that the defendant could n't possibly afford to pay that and realistically , say , only a fifty pound fine can be imposed . |
| 9 | The new 715 Dosimat offers high accuracy dispensing and the possibility of using modern exchange units with flat ceramic stopcocks , at about a quarter of the price of the 665 . |
| 10 | HPI is a member of the Infolink Group which supplies on-line information relating to high value mobile assets , particularly motor vehicles . |
| 11 | Bitez offers exciting day cruising , but it takes two weeks to acclimatise most people to the strong winds ! |
| 12 | There is also a considerable amount of feedback from implementation which influences further policy making , and many policies are so skeletal that their real impact depends upon the way they are interpreted at the implementation stage . |
| 13 | A common situation where such an obligation of confidence is likely to arise is in subcontracting arrangements where the prime contractor supplies detailed information relating to the products which are to be built to his subcontractor . |
| 14 | For steady mean conditions the first term of eqn ( 19.20 ) is zero , but it indicates the physical significance of the equation ; in view of the summation convention and so each term in the equation represents some process tending to increase or decrease the kinetic energy of the turbulence . |
| 15 | The latin motto translated , means offers free wheel balancing . |
| 16 | MICRO FOCUS OFFERS CONCURRENT USER PRICING ON UNIX |
| 17 | We made two grants this year totalling £150 . |
| 18 | CHARLES CLIFFE needs little introduction having been known to you for his splendid writing and demonstrations . |
| 19 | This is presumably not Clinton 's intention , but illustrates short-term advantages taking precedence over long-term objectives . |
| 20 | In the first generation of this project the user specifies spatial queries using system implementation concepts which are made comprehensible ( and refined through testing ) . |
| 21 | The tournament , which runs for six days at Pontin 's Holiday Club , in Brixham , south Devon , has 70 competitors taking part . |
| 22 | Table 4 shows the bank 's initial position ; it has total deposits amounting to £10,000 and is just maintaining its 10 per cent cash ratio by holding in its tills £1,000 in cash . |
| 23 | Rodgers has little difficulty reading between the lines of Hytner 's stylish staging , which apes the hairpin role-reversals of Mozart 's convoluted Masonic fable by itself , neatly reversing the racial and sexual stereotypes of the original . |
| 24 | I mean it 's you know , it 's just to people in the film industry and obviously it has little interest reading it |
| 25 | The sort of book that has sane adults moving rapidly through all kinds of emotions , especially the laughing kind , Second From Last In The Sack Race is one of the best comic novels ever written , funny and sad and , perhaps inevitably , very northern . |
| 26 | N.B. A married man whose wife is totally incapacitated can also claim this allowance , in addition to the married couple 's allowance , if he has dependent children living at home . |
| 27 | The common hawker dragonfly also patrols this area looking for prey and can be seen from early June until late September . |
| 28 | ‘ Needs some boots mending , I believe . ’ |
| 29 | I say again that in Northern Ireland the Housing Executive has spent a great deal more per capita than is the case elsewhere and that can be seen by anyone who visits public sector housing in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | It has historical connections going back many centuries , as early as the reign of Athelstan ( AD 925–940 ) ; it was the property of the church of St John of Beverley . |