Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 2 | When he 's not zapping helmetted contestants in front of a TV camera , he 's usually to be found pumping iron in a gym somewhere . |
| 3 | Moreover , subsistence plots produce goods at competitive prices by the working of long hours , using unpaid household labour and accepting low standards of subsistence . |
| 4 | After her outburst , she now remained silent , darting odd looks of triumph at her betrayer . |
| 5 | Percentage change in ozone on 25 March at 56mbar resulting solely from chemical processes acting from the start of the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 6 | Change in the total ozone ( Dobson Units ) due to heterogeneous processes for the period 15 December to 25 March from the simulation in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations . |
| 7 | Percentage of the model domain north of 25°N covered by polar stratospheric clouds at 56mbar for the simulations in which the radiative heating and cooling were calculated using present-day levels of CO 2 and climatological ozone concentrations ( run 1 ) , present-day levels of CO 2 but with model-calculated ozone concentrations ( run 2 ) , doubled CO 2 with climatological ozone concentrations ( run 3 ) , and doubled CO 2 and model determined ozone concentrations ( run 4 ) . |
| 8 | LORD Whitelaw , the former deputy prime minster , warned yesterday of the danger of producing low-quality acts of parliament by overloading the 15-bill Queen 's Speech programme with additional ‘ instant legislation ’ . |
| 9 | Apart from taking the Japanese surrender and recovering Allied prisoners of war , General Gracey 's third task was to maintain law and order ; and in this he was to recognize the sole authority of the French . |
| 10 | Other males appear to be able to tell when females are near to laying , and try their best to seduce them using prolonged bouts of song and courtship display : sometimes they succeed and the female allows a strange male to mate with her . |
| 11 | There were some differences between the groups , mainly in the recognition of black speakers who were not using Creole features of syntax or segmental phonology . |
| 12 | Every living organism is thus constrained as a result of selection to live in what John Bowlby terms its ‘ environment of evolutionary adaptedness ’ , using stable strategies of exploitation which are the best available to it . |
| 13 | As well as these acute metabolic derangements found in diabetes producing acute effects on platelet function , other factors known to influence platelet function in non-diabetics may be operative in the diabetic population under study , such as the presence of vascular disease , ingestion of aspirin-like substances , exercise , smoking , and the use of the contraceptive pill . |
| 14 | The local government lawyer works at the centre of the organisation using professional skills in support of the chief executive , the management team and the departments that provide the services for the public . |
| 15 | Broadcasting objectives and market data among technical people , rather than channelling specific kinds of information to individuals , and being non-directive in work assignments might be an appropriate management strategy here . |
| 16 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |
| 17 | In the final analysis , however , these committees not only performed an important manifest function in coordinating and producing coherent plans for project involvement , but also some valuable latent functions . |
| 18 | Pursuing unnecessary degrees of precision ( given the inevitable margin of error ) is ineffective research . |
| 19 | He praised the effort and resolve shown by part-time students in completing professional courses in addition to the daily challenges of full-time employment . |
| 20 | The commons had shown themselves increasingly adept at procuring political concessions in return for grants of taxes , and although they were at their most effective when they enjoyed the support of at least some sections of the nobility , they had gained substantially in experience and cohesion by the time the crisis of 1340–1 arose . |
| 21 | Errors , such as indexers assigning unsuitable terms to concepts or omitting relationships , will affect precision by producing unsuitable documents in response to a search ; on the other hand , the same documents will fail to be identified when a search is conducted under the terms which should have been assigned to the document , thus reducing recall . |
| 22 | Overlapping regions of the DNA were sequenced by using specific oligonucleotides as sequencing primers . |
| 23 | The work of Spirit will be an input to the OmniPoint programme , an agreed collection of specifications and technology needed to achieve integrated service management , including open management systems , reflecting combined efforts of user groups , standards bodies and consortia such as X/Open Co Ltd , Open Software Foundation and Object Management Group . |
| 24 | The purpose of this study was to investigate this aspect using simultaneous measurements of morphology , DNA ploidy , and autoradiography . |
| 25 | In his earlier letter to Timothy , Paul had already drawn attention to the importance of maintaining right standards of conduct alongside right beliefs . |
| 26 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 27 | There are several precedents for the Government accepting stately homes in payment of death duties : examples are Petworth Park , Sussex , Sudbury Hall , Derbyshire , Tatton Park , Cheshire , and Saltram Park , Devon . |
| 28 | You 've talked about fairly large distances , distances that you could n't possibly measure with tape measures and using normal methods of measurement , how on earth do you know these distances are the kind you describe ? |
| 29 | I 'd be eating fried X-rays for breakfast . ’ |
| 30 | Christie 's in King Street , St James 's also give big summer and winter parties , which are the greatest fun and where one meets so many friends , as well as seeing exciting items for sale . |