Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who was using private land as an unofficial scrap-yard and heavy goods vehicle base has been asked to get the site cleared up . |
| 2 | The bulk of this paper is devoted to relating our experience , over the last three years , of using electronic coursework on an EP course at the University of Kent at Canterbury . |
| 3 | Sometimes a correlation or co-occurrence is incorrectly presented as a causality , for example , by the use of " therefore " in this sentence : Dickens and Thackeray were concerned with demanding social justice in an attempt to make life better , therefore their literature adopted realism as a method . |
| 4 | Bile acids and cholesterol were simultaneously quantified by gas liquid chromatography using nordeoxycholic acid as an internal standard as described by Chijiiwa and Nakayama . |
| 5 | Using historical continuity as an argument for keeping twenty- and thirty-year-old text books would be thought absurd . |
| 6 | But while Whitehall changed from organizing public expenditure on an annual basis to a five-year rolling programme , the House of Commons was still authorizing expenditure on the old twelve-month pattern . |
| 7 | First , the market and third parties have a legitimate expectation to be entitled to rely on the validity of the Panel 's rules and decisions , and secondly , contemporaneous judicial review would only increase the possibility of delaying tactical litigation by an unscrupulous party to a bid in order to gain an advantage in the takeover process . |
| 8 | For example , take Frank Meadow Sutcliffe 's pictures of Whitby , its community and its industry ; a marvellously revealing historical document with an impressive pictorial content too . |
| 9 | Representing complex character by an asterisk , the closed-loop gain is expressible as where is the complex feedback fraction and the complex open-loop gain . |
| 10 | Eddie Thorning and I saw a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor , and make money by gaining competitive advantage through an oil-and-parts offer to workshops and petrol stations . ’ |
| 11 | ( Chapter 3 ) provide a succinct radical critique of markets together with advocating socialist planning as an alternative . |
| 12 | In exile in Tripoli , non-reconciled CDR factions were suspected of forming links with Zaghawa rebels in Darfur after the April 1989 coup attempt and seeking Libyan sponsorship for an anti-Habre coalition ; prominent individuals included Adoum Togoi , Moctar Moussa and Rakhis Mananny ( who in a statement on Oct. 7 , 1989 , described himself as CDR secretary-general ) . |
| 13 | Miska led her hordes deep into the Empire itself , defeating two Empire armies and causing considerable destruction before an alliance of the Empire , Bretonnia and Dwarfs finally threw back the Kislev hordes . |
| 14 | Other wells continued to burn , causing atmospheric pollution on an epic scale . |
| 15 | As Christiansson ( 1988 ) describes , rotational bush-fallowing and permanent agriculture are gradually replacing shifting cultivation in an area that experiences a long dry season and a short intense wet season . |
| 16 | In early June it was reported from the United States that the Bush administration was seeking congressional approval for an additional US$10-15,000,000 in " covert " military aid to UNITA , to supplement a $50,000,000 CIA assistance programme . |
| 17 | The Committee awarded a grant of £386 based on the 1991/92 payment plus a 4% inflationary allowance given to all organisations seeking financial support on an annual basis . |
| 18 | We highlighted the problems of using national income as an indicator of economic welfare . |
| 19 | A rewarded training trial consisted of transporting a rat in a slowly rotating opaque box from an adjoining room and putting it into the arena at and facing the centre of the N , S , E or W side-wall ( shown as an unfilled circle ) from which it could move around freely until it found the F+ feeder ; a non-rewarded trial lasted 60s and was conducted without either landmarks or feeders . |
| 20 | ( I should stress that I am using human size as an imaginary example : I do not know how many genetic loci and alleles are really at work in this case . ) |
| 21 | STIRLING 's John Chalmers , the 26-year-old Scottish Open champion , won the Epee title in the Donar International in Groningen , the Netherlands , overcoming strong opposition from an entry of 90 world-class fencers . |
| 22 | This had been directed primarily at improving rural housing as an adjunct to public health policy , yet not only were the standards of rural amenities still markedly inferior ( for example , 5000 rural parishes possessed no sewerage system ) , but the sheer volume of housing available for rural workers remained inadequate — rural district councils built only 164083 dwellings between 1919 and 1943 , compared with which the number of private houses was 706527 . |
| 23 | GATESHEAD Harrier Jonathan Edwards , the NorthEast 's leading male challenger for an Olympic track and field medal this summer , opens his season in the North-Eastern Counties Championships at Middlesbrough this weekend . |
| 24 | ‘ We were thinking of having the party on New Year 's Eve , ’ said Miranda , spraying fake snow from an ozonefriendly aerosol on to a twig of holly . |
| 25 | ‘ And Bob 's your uncle , so to speak ? ’ said the inspector , paying unconscious tribute to an old nepotism . |
| 26 | The University 's strategy of expansion over the past few years has been aimed to take full advantage of the UFC 's new policy of rewarding those universities that have demonstrated their willingness and ability to expand by retrospectively awarding full grant for an increased number of so-called fully funded students . |
| 27 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 28 | Like her , he tries to set local government within ‘ the context of the encompassing political economy ’ , but he also argues that Cockburn 's approach , by presenting local government as an instrument of capital makes it ‘ unproblematic and so renders any detailed study of it almost superfluous ’ ( Dearlove , 1979 , p. 217 ) . |
| 29 | In DPP v K , above , the accused , a 15-year-old schoolboy , was using sulphuric acid in an experiment at school . |
| 30 | The strategy of a small ‘ supplier ’ firm in using technological advance as an instrument in gaining competitive advantage |