Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [noun sg] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , paradoxically , changes introduced ostensibly in the interests of rationalizing field officer activity are condemned as irrelevant and unnecessary attacks upon field level autonomy impairing the very efficiency the agency seeks to foster . |
| 2 | The handicapper has given both of them 10st , with last year 's winner Waterloo Boy heading the weights on 12st . |
| 3 | So large is the complex that the high performance pvc roof membrane covering the retail and storage areas , which is masked from general view by the use of a reconstituted Cumbrian slate mansard roof , is actually the size of a football pitch . |
| 4 | ‘ They may be in the radar demonstration room learning the art of manipulating radar devices which surely must be beyond the comprehension of all but the bespectacled gentry who invented them , or maybe they , too , are learning something of ‘ behaviour at height ’ and the ‘ ways of jetstreams ’ . |
| 5 | A key card number numbering the various positions was mounted on the top of the tachistoscope . |
| 6 | U2 are a four piece rock group stretching the possibilities of that line-up to the new and accessible levels . |
| 7 | By 1922 the single school-room was no longer adequate to meet the needs of the local school population , so the full width of the building was extended eastwards under a pair of pitched roofs to create a second classroom , head-teacher 's room and internal side entrance lobby replacing the demolished attached porch ( Plate 32 ) . |
| 8 | The high speed video camera facing the golfer filmed the shot at 200 frames per second and a shutter speed of of a second . |
| 9 | HLA class I and class II alleles were serologically typed at the Tissue Typing Laboratory , NSW Division , Australian Red Cross Society Blood Transfusion Service using the standard National Institutes of Health test for class I and a modified National Institutes of Health test using immunomagnetic beads for class II . |
| 10 | US strategic installations and facilities in Liberia included ( i ) an Omega communications system allowing the tracking of shipping and submarine movements in the Atlantic ; ( ii ) a powerful Voice of America radio transmitter situated near Monrovia ; ( iii ) a communications and information-gathering centre at the embassy for contact with US embassies throughout Africa ; and ( iv ) refuelling facilities at Robertsfield airport for the US Air Force . |
| 11 | Therefore it was possible to run a demonstration passenger train using the ex-BR Rushton & Hornsby diesel locomotive , No. 85049 and the newly constructed bogie passenger coach , delivered to the railway only a week before following completion by Overland Railways of Chidham , West Sussex . |
| 12 | Scientists from the National Rivers Authority are investigating possible leakage from a former nerve gas factory following the deaths of 10 dolphins , scores of sea birds and a giant leatherback turtle between Portreath and Newquay this year . |
| 13 | This is a very simple program that lets you type in a line of text and details of print size and orientation , it will then produce a banner on your dot matrix printer using the line of text . |
| 14 | showed no stuttering , and the usual blood flow asymmetry favouring the left side , when they had to read aloud a passage of prose . |
| 15 | Some of us found enough to interest us just sitting in front of the Upland Goose Hotel watching the birds in the harbour . |
| 16 | Luis Carlos Croissier Batista , who had been Industry and Energy Minister in 1986-1988 , became head of the new Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores , the national stock market commission regulating the new stock markets . |
| 17 | A British company , Data Control and Equipment ( DCE ) , have just released their V3100 dial-up videoconferencing system using the PictureTel codec . |
| 18 | Produced by French keyboard wiz Wally Badarou , and the band themselves , ‘ Guaranteed ’ finds all the old trademarks applied to good effect — the swirling keyboards of Mike Lindup , the old bass-as-lead instrument ploy , and drummer Gary Husband thumping the tubs for all he 's worth . |
| 19 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 20 | It would mean our new South Ayrshire hospital leaving the NHS as we know it and would pave the way for a two-tier health service in Ayrshire . ’ |
| 21 | For some of them , the sands were taking precedence over the works of Mr Dickens , as they gathered to await their leader amid the potted palms in the first-floor sun lounge overlooking the Victoria Parade , the sands and the sea . |
| 22 | The new programme includes a limited three-year Express Exchange service agreement covering the LaserJet , DeskJet , ScanJet and facsimile product lines . |
| 23 | The main points in the communique which was immediately issued included , a ) parallel statements by each government regarding the status of Northern Ireland b ) the setting up of a Council of Ireland c ) the setting up of a joint committee to consider the creation of a law enforcement area covering the whole island d ) consultation on , and coordination of , policing . |
| 24 | A central committee draft law discussing the powers of the presidency of the party was also introduced at the plenum . |
| 25 | The Children 's Society , a national voluntary child care organization providing the only safe houses for runaways and the only comprehensive research on this issue in England ( De'Ath and Newman , 1987 ; Newman , forthcoming ) , has suggested the following as a basic operational definition for further work in this area : Such a definition would combine two currently separate categories of young people ( runaways and absconders ) and could provide the basis for the collection of national statistics to estimate the prevalence of runaway behaviour . |
| 26 | At present , our Map Library receives new microfiche editions of Ordnance Survey mapping covering the whole of the United Kingdom , under the provisions of the Copyright Act 1911 . |
| 27 | The man then hijacked this council refuse truck threatening the three workers outside it . |
| 28 | MR DAVID MELLOR , the Home Office minister handling the Broadcasting Bill , is a civilised chap , the sort of Government minister you will find on a Friday night addressing the Putney Music Club on brilliant young musicians ( Cantelli , Lipatti , Ginette Neveu ) struck down in their prime . |
| 29 | a five-mile branch line linking the town of Keighley , on the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle main line , with the villages of Oakworth , Haworth and Oxenhope . |
| 30 | £17.5 million was spent on a nuclear safety research programme following the transfer of responsibility of this area from the Department of Energy to the HSC . |