Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such criteria have , therefore , to be general and highly flexible allowing for sensitivity to people 's aspirations . |
| 2 | He was laughed to scorn for returning with tales of people who actually ate the nests of birds , which they boiled over fires of burning black stones — seven centuries before the same black stones were discovered and harnessed in Europe to fuel the Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | Property price inflation lifted turnover and operating profits , but costs also increased steeply , with interest charges leaping from £1.236m to £3.94m , reducing the pre-tax result . |
| 4 | The rewards are just beginning to come through with Mercury 's contribution to C&W trading profit leaping from £4million to £14million in the six months to September 30 . |
| 5 | GOLD was slightly easier yesterday , ending in London at $362.00/$362.50 an ounce after the dollar surged following comments by Alan Greenspan , the Federal Reserve chairman , which implied the US would keep interest rates firm . |
| 6 | Superbly sited south-facing slopes adjacent to Villedommange which deservedly earned a vital extra per cent in 1985 , climbing from 89% to 90% and thus premier cru status . |
| 7 | Equal amounts of cell membrane protein from normal and carcinoma tissue were boiled for five minutes in SDS sample buffer and analysed by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis acording to Laemmli with 7% resolving gels . |
| 8 | A similar picture on European Social Fund which is falling out , erm , mainly relating to schemes for people with learning disability , and we have been very successful on that front in attracting European funding for learning disability , particularly those schemes which have an element of , of training for , for employment associated with them . |
| 9 | British Data Management , which started trading on Thursday at 112p against its recent placing price of 125p , recovered 5 to 117p . |
| 10 | One suggestion is to create a European Parliament senate or upper house , consisting of delegations of MPs in proportion to their strength in their national parliaments . |
| 11 | He retired in 1911 but , having unrivalled knowledge of the Eastern Front and its terrain , was recalled in 1914 to assume command in the east , with Ludendorff serving as chief of staff . |
| 12 | On the evenings I bait the swim I spend an hour just sitting and watching the swim after the bait has been introduced , looking for signs of carp moving into the area . |
| 13 | Analyst Mark Simpson is looking for profits of £2.4m this year and £2.85m next year . |
| 14 | Stockbroker UBS Phillips & Drew , looking for £530m against £417m pre-tax , says 1991–92 was not an easy year for the group but believes the current year will be better , given a lower wage award and more stabilised sales . |
| 15 | Kevin Feeny at Warburg Securities is looking for £242m against £183m with £650m pencilled in for the year . |
| 16 | What Lazarsfeld was after was a way of searching for patterns in data , patterns exhibited between variables , and patterns that , if confirmed regularly across studies , could stand as statements of empirical relationships between phenomena . |
| 17 | The complex world of coding , the multiplicity of codes and of the non-coding structuring of data ; the task of searching for patterns in data are all likely to benefit as these techniques become more user friendly and offer shorter learning curves . |
| 18 | SAILING around the coast of England searching for shoals of fish , Gerorge Trowark , a Cornish fisherman born in 1877 , must have visited dozens of ports and harbours . |
| 19 | The present sale comprises 121 lots , with estimates ranging from £100–200 to £150,000–200,000 . |
| 20 | Gilmour Thom , 51 , an institutional salesman with Bell Lawrie White , told the court that after Mackie had briefed him on his meeting with Mr Runciman , he had sold about 1.5 million Shanks & McEwan shares at prices ranging from 305p to 318p . |
| 21 | The charges relate to 24 separate mortgage advances , ranging from £61,750 to £17,500 , worth a combined £803,000 . |
| 22 | The charges relate to 24 separate mortgage advances ranging from £61,750 to £17,500 involving some of the country 's leading building societies . |
| 23 | The MultiPoint Control Unit will be available in the fourth quarter with prices ranging from $60,000 to $200,000 , depending on features and size of the unit . |
| 24 | The Sonnabend exhibition and simultaneous installations at two other galleries in Chicago and Cologne — the ‘ Banality ’ sculptures came in editions of three — brought in loads of cash , with prices ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 . |
| 25 | Restoration of continence was evident in nine patients , while three patients showed a reduction in frequency of incontinence ranging from 75% to 90% . |
| 26 | Sunsail quotes prices ranging from £95 to £120 a head , depending on catering and accommodation ; significantly less than events such as Ascot or Wimbledon . |
| 27 | Long-term follow-up studies indicate that anorexia nervosa is associated with serious morbidity and mortality ranging from 4% to 18% . |
| 28 | At 31 December 1992 there were outstanding options under various employee share option schemes , exercisable during the years 1993 to 2002 , to acquire 9,668,454 ordinary shares of the company at prices ranging from £0.74 to £4.75 per share . |
| 29 | Launched last autumn , the Peugeot 605 has four engine choices and four trim levels with prices ranging from £16,660 to £26,520 . |
| 30 | Deskworks will be available on Sun platforms next month and on DEC , HP and IBM systems in September , with licences ranging from $75 to $300 depending on the number of users . |