Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GEM of the East Anglian coast is the only working Garratt locomotive in the British Isles . |
| 2 | Embittered Muslims , radicalised by defeat , may resort to terrorism , thus turning Serbo-Croat propaganda about fighting Islamic fundamentalism into a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 3 | ABOVE : The Wolverton Royal Train on the up slow entering Wolverton Station in 1952 , hauled by Princess Victoria ( Shed 8A , Liverpool Edge Hill ) in BR Brunswick Green , lined out orange , black , orange . |
| 4 | Handling the fast terrain with confidence several sceptics had previously labelled him a mudlark with no acceleration - Captain Dibble jumped superbly under champion Peter Scudamore , gradually grinding Dalkey Sound into submission . |
| 5 | Winner of the contest in the colour section was Manx photographer John Hall L.P.R.S. His long lens shot of a M.E.R. tram travelling through Laxey required much patience to correctly frame the tram whilst also keeping Laxey Wheel in focus . |
| 6 | Apple Computer Inc on Wednesday launches its first full-function servers , and with them hopes to persuade small- and medium-size businesses to buy from it all the computer equipment they need ; the new Workgroup servers can process data up to four times faster than Quadras , and although they will support alien machines , they are designed primarily for networks consisting mainly of Macintoshes ; the Workgroup Server Models 60 and 80 cost from $3,080 to $10,000 , the high-end Model 95 at $7,600 to $13,000 ; the 95 is out by the end of April the other two this summer ; the company also has a new Release 4.0 of its AppleShare file and print sharing software , and a high-end AppleShare Pro ; the company is also launching AppleTalk Connection for MS-DOS and Windows to enable cross communications between Macintosh and MS-DOS boxes in a network . |
| 7 | Demonstrators were angered by a government announcement in February that King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV had agreed to amend the law , thereby giving Tongan citizenship to 426 foreigners who had bought Tongan passports . |
| 8 | Key points of the accord included ( i ) a set-aside , in the first year , of 15 per cent of the EC farmland currently devoted to growing oilseeds , and a set-aside of at least 10 per cent in future years [ see also p. 39170 ] , in return for the lifting of punitive US tariffs on EC food and drink imports [ see below ] ; ( ii ) restriction of oilseed production to 5.128 million hectares [ not 5,128 million hectares as given on p. 39170 ] , thereby cutting EC production in future years to between 8,500,000 and 9,700,000 tonnes , down from a peak of 13,000,000 tonnes in 1991 [ ibid. ] , in return for curbs on US exports of soya beans and other cereal substitutes to the EC ( so-called rebalancing " ibid. ) ; and ( iii ) trimming the volume of subsidised EC farm exports by 21 per cent ( rather than 24 per cent as proposed in a GATT draft accord " see p. 38746 ) , cutting EC internal price supports by 20 per cent and reducing EC export subsidies by 36 per cent . |
| 9 | Needles can be produced by simply pulling Leitz capillary on an electrode puller but such hollow needles can cause damage to tissue if they break because of the ensuing capillary action , Solid needles are preferable both for this reason and also because they have greater mechanical strength . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly this became the least selling Smiths record of them all . |
| 11 | There 's been no stopping Swindon Town of late . |