Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Georgian mill owner 's house has been restored and houses displays exploring the history of the mill . |
| 2 | This technique involves feeding the child orally but allowing the food to pass out through a surgically produced fistula at the side of the neck . |
| 3 | One technique involves helping a person to break down a problem into more manageable subproblems and consider the merits of various possible solutions to each part . |
| 4 | But , if the information is derived from several populations ( e.g. different years ) , the analagous technique involves setting a base year figure to 100 and scaling the figures for succeeding years relative to this . |
| 5 | The snapshot technique involves injecting the animal with a radioactively labelled version of glucose , 2-deoxy-glucose ( 2DG ) , that ‘ sticks ’ in cells . |
| 6 | A more modern technique involves placing the nuts in a metal cylinder , and the cylinder on the fire . |
| 7 | Monitoring involves tracking the evolution of environmental trends , sequences of events , or streams of activities . |
| 8 | I made the decision to abort using the apparatus and revert to an alternative er means . |
| 9 | The reason is not technical difficulty or avalanches , but the fact that the normal route involves reaching a ridge at 7,000 metres which is no less than four kilometres away from the summit pyramid . |
| 10 | Adding the constraint involves adding a row with no negative pivot , so the down-problem is infeasible . |
| 11 | By comparison , following a chain or tag involves reading the link field , finding the key in it , picking up the address and searching for it . |
| 12 | Ergativity involves using the object of a transitive verb as the subject of an intransitive verb : cf. An explosion shook the room and The room shook ( with the explosion ) . |
| 13 | Michelle has an abundance of waist-length hair and although she was prepared for a radical cut , Patrick recommended keeping the length but blunt-cutting it to a clean , straight line : ‘ You do n't have to have mountains cut off to look different , ’ he said . |
| 14 | A LAST minute decision to continue funding the after-care scheme for elderly people at Middlesbrough General Hospital was welcomed yesterday by Age Concern Cleveland . |
| 15 | ‘ That flaming midwife hates calling the doctor in but Helen needed him long before he came . ’ |
| 16 | Where an assessment involves interviewing the child about matters which are central to the case the court may stipulate that all interviews be recorded on video tape . |
| 17 | A number of cases arose following the collapse of savings and loans companies ( " thrifts " — see below ) . |
| 18 | Parliament avoided taking the decision on the acceptance of Théodore , which was necessary for the replacement of the current interim Prime Minister , Jean Jacques Honorat . |
| 19 | Jane was in a junk food café trying to eat chips off a floppy paper plate and drink red wine three-quarters full of ice , when a young man with long hair entered carrying a guitar , ‘ Ugh — do n't like him , ’ said her host 's son , aged sixteen . |
| 20 | So , when the play starts making a lot , I get this extra money on top of my royalty ! ’ |
| 21 | Exercise 13.3 has been set to give you an opportunity to try reading a table with four variables in it . |
| 22 | The door opened again and Peggy entered carrying a tray on which there were three drinks . |
| 23 | Thus , social skills involve assessing the skills of the other person , a process known as mutual construing . |
| 24 | The results of sequential APGPR propeptide assay of urine and serum were analysed using the Wilcoxon matched pairs signed ranks test and the urinary APGPR concentrations and excretion from normal and morbidly obese groups analysed using the Kruskal-Wallis one way analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) . |
| 25 | If the pulsar is a rejuvenated old neutron star , the large magnetic field suggests that there has been little or no decay from its original value , lending support to work suggesting the field decay may not occur , in contrast to other evidence . |
| 26 | Before long Foujita and Fernande returned to Paris , and after August 1918 , the Germans stopped shelling the city . |
| 27 | You know , suppose parliament starts breaking the rules and acting arbitrarily and I say the mechanism is not clear . |
| 28 | The door opened and Jenkins entered carrying a tray . |
| 29 | The budget proposed increasing the budget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) by $2,800 million . |
| 30 | If the DCs are consolidated then the existing DCs should be aborted and new DC(s) created referencing the modules on the old DC(s) and the old DC(s) as being superseded . |