Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surface Processes in Ion Etching : Reactive ion etching of metals and semiconductors used in integrated circuit technology ; Study of the ion surface interactions using ultra high vacuum surface sensitive techniques which include ESCA and SIMS . |
| 2 | Paris was first and despite a struggle to get off the ground , the company now has three operations bringing in some £200,000 a week . |
| 3 | This economic system , which allowed the landowning classes to take a disproportionate share of the productive capacity of the economy , was based upon traditional craft skills using fairly primitive tools and it was labour intensive . |
| 4 | Morse ( 1988 ) looked for mispricings of S&P500 , NYSE Composite and MMI index futures using daily closing prices from 1986 to 1988 . |
| 5 | Mr Falah , who is president of an association of Libyan Jews that includes two Israeli members of parliament , recently spent two hours mulling over old times with Colonel Qaddafi , and emerged with a promise of compensation for Jewish property sequestrated by the Libyan regime . |
| 6 | Optical tablets using infra red beams to detect the position of a stylus are not nearly as sensitive as the other systems but are quite adequate for allowing a finger to be used to select an item from a program menu . |
| 7 | Unless something in other parts of the legislation discloses such purpose , the courts are forced to adopt one of the two possible meanings using highly technical rules of construction . |
| 8 | Solicitors representing over 50 clients engaged in litigation in connection with Silicone Breast Implants met in London last Tuesday , 19 January 1993 to discuss tactics . |
| 9 | ‘ The documents specified above relate specifically to photocopies numbering approximately 5,000 pages , which were transported on 22 March 1991 from [ a Middle East state ] to the London offices of [ a London firm of solicitors ] . |
| 10 | Increasing intra-abdominal pressure by straining as if to defecate in control subjects produced a variety of anal pressure waveforms incorporating both anal contraction and anal relaxation ( Table II ) , and corresponding with the external anal sphincter myoelectrical activity . |
| 11 | I have sometimes been saddened by encapsulated groups praying along these lines . |
| 12 | A user-definable speed bar at the top of the screen holds icons representing frequently used functions . |
| 13 | But nothing prepares you for four and a half hours climbing up crumbling ice . |
| 14 | Half load The half-load facility allows you to wash six place settings using just one basket ( usually the bottom one ) without wasting detergent , water or energy . |
| 15 | The gradient of the swash bar on its seaward side appears to be related to the nature of the waves , short waves building up steeper gradients than long ones . |
| 16 | Gibsons were usually played by fingerpickers using very light strings — á la Jansch and Renbourne — or ragtime pickers like Ralph McTell or by female artists like Sandy Denny . |
| 17 | Plasma glucagon and atrial natriuretic peptide values were measured by double antibody RIA methods using commercially available kits ( Double Antibody Glucagon , Diagnostic Products Corporation , Los Angeles , CA , USA ; Human Atrial Natriuretic Peptide , Immuno Technology Service Production BV , Wijchen , The Netherlands ) . |
| 18 | Having said that , many of my favourite pictures have been really bold designs using very strong colours on striking backgrounds ! |
| 19 | My puzzled parents welcomed me home and , after a reassuring three months tearing up confidential papers for the Civil Service , I joined the staff of Emanuel School , London , in January 1954 . |
| 20 | The Keyhole KH-11 I , which has vastly improved visual sensors , is said to have the ability to see objects only six inches long on the ground and to be able to read number plates on cars driving along Russian streets or identify one mullah from another in Iran by measuring the size of their beards . |
| 21 | Coupons would make up 25 per cent of salaries and would be used to purchase all goods in state shops costing under 1,500 roubles . |
| 22 | The Department of Transport awarded contracts to firms to develop electronics that would identify cars passing over buried toll ‘ gates ’ . |
| 23 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 24 | To have separate parties urging effectively identical policies seems absurd and is quite contrary to British political traditions . |
| 25 | The effort of yielding a good crop of grapes expends a great amount of the vine 's energy and its roots will be active over the winter months searching out fresh supplies for the next year 's growth . |
| 26 | But while some rumours are harmless — like the persistent one about certain restaurants serving up dead dogs — others can be very damaging for businesses , especially in the volatile electronics sector . |
| 27 | Government whips discounted talk of a cabal of dissidents meeting privately last night and likely attenders were similarly reticent . |
| 28 | One of Orcofi 's companies has even opened a shopping centre in Taipei that groups together shops selling only luxury goods . |
| 29 | Some have romantic visions of crouched and muffled figures dragging log-laden sledges through a savage landscape of snow and ice ; frost-bearded Vikings with massive axes , round great fires of pine logs ; or raw-boned Northerners squatting over faggot-heated porridge pots . |
| 30 | Eighty-seven steps spiralling down sixty feet below ground level , into the Foot Tunnel beneath the Thames . |