Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEXT MONTH Using ornaments to create a focal point in your garden |
| 2 | By contrast , the Federici range of dried pasta from Princes Catering Products emphasises the special water — from the famous Sangemini Springs — used in its manufacture . |
| 3 | As the number of fossils increased , more and more examples of fairly continuous fossil sequences were discovered , allowing paleontologists to analyse the historical development of some groups with a fair degree of confidence . |
| 4 | In the present situation , the ASEA could never be a remedy for the ‘ general wastefulness of industry ‘ ; instead , its proper role was in helping employers to get the right kind of boy , and boys to find the right kind of employer and to ensure that training was effective , both in terms of the workshop and of continued education . |
| 5 | Use levelling strips to provide the correct fall and to mark the required depth of sand . |
| 6 | Within five years the same railway contractors responsible for the spur line were actively pursuing plans to build a new dock system in the area . |
| 7 | In this passage J. S. Mill resolutely turns his back on allowing sensations to have a universal character . |
| 8 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 9 | Dell became one of the world 's largest PC companies by using computers to avoid an expensive dealer network or salesforce and sell directly to consumers . |
| 10 | The truth is that without the assistance and support of local education authorities in helping schools manage the many drastic , rushed and ill conceived changes forced upon them by the Tory Government during the past 13 years , the education service would by now be in total disarray . |
| 11 | My journey should also ensure that the Clio clocks up the miles quickly , helping readers to gauge the French supermini 's durability . |
| 12 | Site landlords Trafalgar House claimed ‘ grandiose ’ pre-conditions demanded by highway authority Cleveland County Council were blighting attempts to develop the ten-acre plot behind the Eaglescliffe public house . |
| 13 | Nesting birds include the little tern , redshank and shelduck . |
| 14 | Sharon responded by announcing plans to increase the Israeli settler population of the Golan from 11,000 to 20,000 . |
| 15 | For the fourth day the Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryskov , was still pressing deputies to accept a huge increase in prices as a painful first step . |
| 16 | The company says that the machines are the first real-time multiprocessing computers to use the 88110 and represent a unique 88110 implementation with large caches , local memory , and high input-output throughput supporting multiple input-output buses making it a balanced system for real-time computing . |
| 17 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 18 | Deliciously simple , devastatingly effective ; a random survey of opening bowlers produced the following names , along with a quite distinct behavioral pattern : |
| 19 | Also on Feb. 1 , in a further indicator that the economy was facing recession , the National Association of Purchasing Managers announced a marked drop in its index of industrial conditions , to 37.7 in December 1990 , the lowest level since May 1982 . |
| 20 | But in the light of recent developments in the public sector such techniques may be particularly useful in enabling managers to plan the future direction of the organisation . |
| 21 | Wembley blamed the Gulf war and the recession for trading profits falling a third to £14.6m and the gloom was deepened by a £7.5m exceptional charge against its investment in Leisure Resource Group , redundancy costs and a £3.2m restructuring of its American ticketing business . |
| 22 | Nintendo Co has lost a bid to keep competitors from selling devices that modify its video games after the US Supreme Court refused to hear its arguments against an appeals court ruling in favour of Lewis Galoob Toys Inc , which offers Game Genie , which plugs into the Nintendo Entertainment System and cartridges , enabling players to use a simple code to change up to three elements of a game at a time ; the appeals court wrote that because Game Genie does n't cause any permanent change to the Nintendo cartridges — and is dependent upon a cartridge and the Nintendo system in order to operate — it does not usurp Nintendo 's copyright ; Nintendo said Game Genie violates a copyright owner 's exclusive right under the Copyright Act of 1976 to authorise or prepare derivative works . |
| 23 | For walking scenes involving the full-size model , only the upper half appeared , making things easier for the puppeteer underneath , since the weight was reduced by about a third . |
| 24 | Eliminating accidents involved every single person — management and workforce — employed on the overhaul and the major capital projects . |
| 25 | The Tucson , Arizona company has also added a remote server management feature , enabling users to edit a remote server 's accounts or resources , and a batch de-spooling feature enabling users to de-spool commands to a remote server from a local personal computer and specify when these commands should be executed . |
| 26 | Further publications followed , all aimed at a parliamentary audience : A Breviat of Some Proposals for the promoting of Industry ( 1679 ) , including wool as well as linen manufacture in the workhouse scheme ; A Method of Government for Such Publick Working Alms-Houses ( 1679 ) , proposing the union of small parishes for workhouse purposes and the election of ‘ delegates or overseers ’ by contributing parishes to oversee the new institutions ; and finally England 's Weal and Prosperity Proposed ( 1681 ) , a summary statement . |
| 27 | Nor does knowledge of contributing causes give an easy way out . |
| 28 | Odette , for example , turned away from fattening foods to embrace a healthier diet : that means plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables , pasta , wholemeal products , beans and pulses . |
| 29 | Finally , there are those of a Marxist persuasion , who look to higher education enabling students to form a critical perspective on society and social affairs , and on that basis to effect radical social change . |
| 30 | Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun . |