Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has asked friends to make a donation to the hospice movement instead of buying presents for her 80th birthday . |
| 2 | The Deutschmark is flooding into the investment-starved east , and the people have taken to wearing grins with their first designer labels . |
| 3 | " You 'll be getting exhibits from your first murder case this morning . |
| 4 | These are a complexity of outcropping veins on which 17th Century miners worked but in places they have been modified by subsequent operators . |
| 5 | Welcom Software Technology of Houston , Texas is porting its project management software Open Plan to Unix targeting SunOS as its first implementation : Open Plan , built on the Xbase DBMS , was previously available on PCs , Macs and VAXs . |
| 6 | To encourage people to voyage into the psychic seems about as responsible as the Wright brothers taking day-trippers on their first ever flight — without parachutes ! |
| 7 | A new computer listening machine will treat up to 200 children with hearing problems in its first year of use . |
| 8 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 9 | 4 ANNUAL STATISTICS If you did not attend on QT day you will receive a computerised print-out showing details of your last year 's classes ( between 1 January and 31 December and include short courses , holiday classes , irregular specialised work etc . ) |
| 10 | Cray Research was showing parts of its first massively parallel computer , the T3D , specifically the basic board , which will not be available until next year . |
| 11 | Under such arrangements , work-experience might be planned thus , taking the example of a group of catering students in their first year of full-time attendance at college . |
| 12 | THE HONEY THIEVES : ‘ Second Hand Man ’ ( Buzz ) wild , leather-clad bunch of rockin' Dubliners with their second buzz-inducing single , produced by Chris Allison , and the follow up to their Irish Top 20 hit , ‘ Drive ’ — out on Monday |