Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm still using tablecloths with that mark on ! |
| 2 | Adam also wrote the De Utensilibus ad Domum Regendam , a treatise composed after returning to his native village which he had left over eleven years before ; its use of quaint and archaic words was designed to show his knowledge of learned terminology in naming objects of everyday life . |
| 3 | It seems that the construction workers building galleries in total darkness get their bearings and coordinate their work by sensing the magnetic field of the earth . |
| 4 | Nonetheless , very considerable experience of using groups for this kind of research shows that they do tend to produce very consistent results , even where different researchers cover the same problem . |
| 5 | A consequence of seeing rules in this way is that a very high degree of consensus concerning the rule is to be expected among members cf the group or sub-culture in which the rule applies . |
| 6 | In contrast , those developers whose prime objective is building houses at maximum profit and with minimum care for the environment , may experience difficulty . |
| 7 | The technique of labelling granulocytes in mixed leucocyte suspensions using Tc-99m HMPAO has previously been described . |
| 8 | Studies of the nucleic acid binding activities of retroviral MoMuLV NCp10 and avian pp12 indicate that NC protein has a higher affinity for single stranded DNA and RNA than for double stranded DNA ( 15 , 23–24 ) . |
| 9 | Data sources are imperfect , data handling skills in short supply and the cause-and-effect processes long and complex . |
| 10 | Once a hierarchical order of open systems had come into being , natural selection , operating on the elaboration of new hierarchies and new cybernetics , became capable of generating states of greater heterogeneity with integrative systemic control . |
| 11 | Most traditional vegetables do best in a cool , wet summer , so incorporate as much organic matter as possible and consider using strips of black polythene between rows to reduce the need for watering in a good summer . |
| 12 | The idea of using roads for local distribution and the railways for the long-distance trunk haul is as old as the railways themselves . |
| 13 | Thus it is very important to read the instructions carefully when using programmes of this nature . |
| 14 | The objections that are raised against identity assumptions in respect of meanings in such a context are chiefly motivated by the fear that such assumptions might commit us to accepting meanings as some kind of entities . |
| 15 | He should turn it to a profounder end , producing masterpieces in another man 's name . |
| 16 | However , there is also a case for including acts of gross indecency performed on or with girls of 18 years and below who may still be at school and dependent on their parents , since such acts too may be highly damaging . |
| 17 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 18 | Using scissors , cut out six ‘ mirrors ’ from foil and attach them evenly around the sides of the cake using dabs of royal icing . |
| 19 | Handling objects of this sort may well result in extensive ( and expensive ) damage . |
| 20 | We are using the JBA general ledger , accounts receivable and the payables ledger ( for non-air transport payables ) , handling operations like local accounting and warehousing . ’ |
| 21 | Prisoners were demanding improvements in medical treatment , work opportunities and food . |
| 22 | GEORGE Wimpey , Britain 's second-biggest house-builder , yesterday joined the growing chorus of businesses seeing signs of economic recovery , despite unveiling huge losses for 1992 . |
| 23 | All day Coleman sat in a hot studio staring at one picture and maintaining hours of nonstop commentary to out-Dimbleby the best of them . |
| 24 | Her colleagues , however , used methods which proved no more reliable , such as charting graphs for daily price movements and basing future patterns purely on the past . |
| 25 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 26 | Mass screening is not feasible , but targeting groups at high risk and asking them to attend for screening is perfectly plausible . |
| 27 | When I was researching the history of the Shropshire parish of Myddle I was able to trace some of the farming families back beyond the beginning of the parish register by using lists of manorial court jurors dating from 1528 . |
| 28 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 29 | Building towers of different sized bricks but using bricks in one-to-one correspondence , probably with the teacher 's guidance . |
| 30 | Sumner became the leading English exponent of the technique of sgraffito , a method of decorating walls by incising designs on coloured plaster ; he decorated eleven churches and several private houses in this way . |