Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If he did n't become a telly millionaire turning out musical trash they could be flogged for a few pounds .
2 IN summer-like conditions Bangor and Banbridge provided plenty of entertainment for a good crowd at Upritchard Park with the home side running out comfortable winners .
3 So in reality our S S A is going up about one and a half percent , and as you know our budget has gone up about one and a half percent , so why is the council tax going up six point three percent ?
4 Acid rain killing off Welsh river trout
5 Hard to talk though ; the machines are as noisy as the trains back at the flats and there 's pop music screaming out all day long from the radio wedged on top of the mantelpiece .
6 Behind that is a straight metal piece ( lets call that the needle ) which has a metal strip running down either side , sitting snugly against the needle .
7 ‘ Then all we can do is act like civilised adults and agree to differ , ’ she said , hearing herself sound like an agony aunt trotting out hackneyed advice .
8 The old shed door hanging on one rusted hinge , would swing no more and had crashed to the floor .
9 Flat owners face losing their homes after being landed with a bill for ground rent going back fifteen years .
10 While these were not banned , they were not always easy to get , partly because state publishers had to use much of their manpower and paper ration churning out millions of volumes of turgid Party-approved prose and the works of Lenin .
11 Fears expressed by these sectors of the economy led to the plan 's drafters and the Central Planning Bureau carrying out two impact studies : one based on unilateral action , the other assessing what would happen if other EC countries adopted similar measures .
12 Under the new pricing , the 80960-based ViewStations start at $1,000 for an FX15 15″ mono terminal putting up 1,024 by 864 pixels ; a 19″ colour FX19CT with 1,280 by 1,024 pixels now costs $3,200 .
13 A tail rope passing round underwater pulleys at the bottom of the incline was attached to the centres of the trailing edge of the tanks through eye bolts ( figures 8 and 9 ) .
14 A precision machine with a diamond tip measuring around one-fortieth of the diameter of a human hair is used to cut furrows , grooves , pyramids , rings and other shapes into a metal surface which in turn is used to stamp the microscopic features into a plastic film .
15 However , industrial property total return dropped back slightly to 9.6 per cent , the result of capital growth dropping back 0.3 per cent on the previous month .
16 A successful ATN parse is obtained by traversing a path of arcs from the initial node to a success node using up all words in the sentence .
17 It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’
18 It 's going to be like fucking University Challenge sorting out some of them , through . ’
19 He would himself take on the Finance portfolio , with Minister of Agriculture Madun Dulloo taking on Foreign Affairs and further appointments to follow .
20 The Cabinet on Sept. 23 adopted a draft law laying down heavy penalties for those employing illegal immigrants [ see also p. 38354 ] .
21 When you 've got it reasonably level , roll the surface with a garden roller filling in any hollows that appear .
22 When the consultation paper setting out alternative proposals for between 15 and 51 single-tier councils was published last October , Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , was keen to point to the economies that the local government changes could bring .
23 Only the experienced Cockbain could play the unusual Aigburth wicket knocking up 79 out of 150–6 .
24 A shower that is thermostatically controlled is ideal , but the reliable and efficient ones can be expensive to buy and to install , and a mixer system working off one large hot and cold mixer with two tap controls can be very satisfactory for all but the very severely disabled .
25 From the point of view of an application system carrying out final plausibility checks , CLE- I logical forms emerge one at a time , with no scoring information attached , and the application must decide which one to accept using an essentially binary , absolute plausibility test .
26 Deputy hooker Ian Jeffery drafted in at blindside flanker typified the courageous tackling of the home team to avert a glut of scores by the visitors the County pack plying back enough possession to win a dozen games .
27 It has a continuous history of woodland cover going back 700 years and provides a habitat for a huge variety of plant , bird and butterfly life .
28 The script of They Met in the Dark ( 1946 ) , in which James Mason is a discharged sea captain hunting down those who delivered fake orders to his ship , is a textureless and muddled affair .
29 It might include a 3000m timed run , 15 minutes Indian File , a school relay competition mixing up all the age groups , a leisurely scenic run , and a short pyramid session around the soccer pitch .
30 Periodic and retrospective reconsideration of system performance ranging over standard outputs , purpose-specific reanalysis of past performance , and new evidence .
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