Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The performance of each dictionary was tested using each of the three documents , and measured in terms of percentage correct and z-score ( the t-score could now be replaced by the z-score since sample sizes were sufficiently large ) . |
| 2 | Continue every 25 cm around the edge of the ring using each of the different fabrics in turn ( illustration 4 ) . |
| 3 | The decline of community and the rise of a society in which association was becoming in some sense secondary can also be seen as reflecting some of the profound social and spatial changes that were actually taking place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 4 | Inadvertently reflecting some of the new-found ‘ posse ’ mentality , EV 's three writers sing their own songs , diffusing still further the four-square thrust of conventional rock with chiming , circular guitar runs ( a million miles away from indie 's dull scrubbing ) and rueful bass hums . |
| 5 | Cuthbertson also advanced the subject of electricity in the Netherlands , writing books , giving public lectures , and assisting some of the foremost Dutch scientists with their experiments . |
| 6 | No matter how bad the weather , you can always find some sheltered stretches , and there is normally the bonus of seeing some of the first swallows and martins of the year as well . |
| 7 | Coarser gauges and of course knitting some of the more specialist yarns like Channel which in particular . |
| 8 | Allowing some of the built-up tension inside her to dissipate , she forced a mocking smile to her dry lips . |
| 9 | On Friday the US charge d'affaires in Beijing was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to hear a ‘ strong protest ’ about President Bush 's decision to execute by administrative means the provisions of a congressional bill he had vetoed , allowing some of the estimated 40,000 Chinese students in the US to extend their visas . |
| 10 | ‘ I wonder if we 're handling this in the right way , ’ he said cautiously . |
| 11 | Wolfe admitted handling some of the stolen money and was placed on probation for 18 months . |
| 12 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 13 | The Americans countered by accepting this for the first ten years , but adding an extra M per cent interest , bringing the annual figure to £40 million for the remaining fifty-two years . |
| 14 | Accepting this as a broad description of the current state , we now examine some real-time data in order to confirm the direction of change . |
| 15 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman , er , it 's an important point , but I 'm so fed up with hearing people using this as a political issue , erm , and , and , and I 'm a high critic of the government er , for many other reasons , but I would like to know where these people think the money would come from . |
| 17 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 18 | Bring a breath of country air into your home using some of the traditional pot pourri , herb and spice preparations from Gail Duff 's fascinating book . |
| 19 | In-house training should be improved and built upon , using some of the new educational aids recommended . |
| 20 | However , after reading several copies of Ideal Home , I felt inspired to paint and decorate using some of the striking designs and techniques illustrated in the magazine . |
| 21 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 22 | Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation . |
| 23 | The teacher , Mr Phillips , was helping some of the older children at the back of the schoolroom . |
| 24 | Dissuading some of the smallest walkers from clinging to our pedals , we moved on from Ana 's Cross , to the road down Chimney Bank back to Rosedale Abbey . |
| 25 | The plot fires off in every direction at once , almost entirely wasting some of a fine ensemble cast ( Maria De Medirios shows up for a couple of close ups and little more ) , introducing sub-plots at the very last minute ( a homosexual love affair between the opera 's leading man and director is inexplicably absent from the rest of the movie ) and turning from light comedy to an intense marital drama with no warning . |
| 26 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 27 | Acres of material and miles of thread have gone into producing some of the finest quilts in the world . |
| 28 | Nautor is famous for producing some of the highest quality fibreglass yachts in the world . |
| 29 | The possibility that present sea level is approximately the same as an earlier sea level must be taken into account before attributing some of the present high cliffs of the British coasts to recent erosion . |
| 30 | The entire cast were excited about the dress rehearsal of The Count of Luxembourg , even the blasé old orchestra catching some of the anticipatory delight that stemmed from the new production . |