Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patten was also blasted for ‘ denying children a hot meal ’ with cuts in school dinners . |
| 2 | If you are using models a good deal keep a model book with notes on how each one has been used before , what they look particularly well in and any other relevant notes . |
| 3 | In fact the proposal which he 's promoting needs a three mile new road cutting across the landscape . |
| 4 | As 20 stewards busied about serving guests a sumptuous feast , Diana happily chatted away to both president Mitterrand and Spanish foreign minister Don Javier Solana Madariaga . |
| 5 | Certainly I think we 're in very great danger of Leeds Bradford , if we start pushing things a great deal more . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’ |
| 7 | A system of mandatory fees was long justified by the RIBA in terms of both protecting architects from the power of clients and ensuring that design standards were maintained by guaranteeing architects a reasonable return for their work . |
| 8 | Warrington-based NWW , the first of the major water companies to report results , is paying shareholders a total dividend of 21.4p per share . |
| 9 | In their intermediation role between savers and borrowers , banks , building societies and other financial institutions earn profits by paying savers a lower rate of interest on deposits and charging a higher rate on loans to customers . |
| 10 | Bush 's scheme would brighten prospects for nuclear power by granting companies a single licence to build and operate nuclear plants . |
| 11 | This seems to be pitching things a good deal too high , but the current London Film Festival , which continues until Sunday , tends to confirm the impression that 1989 has been a less than vintage year for the movies . |
| 12 | It should not be introduced at too early a stage ; teaching pupils a new dialect may be confusing when they are learning many other aspects of language use . |
| 13 | After allowing passengers a short time at Barmouth , the engines were exchanged and 75069 , hauling the London train , left at 1530 , crossed the local in Tywyn at 1600 , left Tywyn at 1620 , arrived Machynlleth at 1650 and departed at 1716 , on its way to Shrewsbury . |
| 14 | WOLVERHAMPTON and Dudley Breweries pumped out record year-end profits of £35.2m , up 7% , with a hefty 11% dividend increase to 11.4p , giving shareholders a pre-Christmas bonus . |
| 15 | This was done by giving subjects a maximum number of accidents which their estimates could not exceed . |
| 16 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 17 | Besides breaking the law they were , by flaunting themselves and pestering passers-by , causing an intolerable degree of embarrassment and giving visitors a deplorable impression of London 's immorality . |
| 18 | For those commencing two daily injections , the fixed insulin combinations can be very useful as older patients often find mixing insulins a difficult exercise . |
| 19 | Many companies closed on Friday , giving workers a 16-day rest . |
| 20 | The pact would speed up the privatisation of 4,000 medium-sized and small state enterprises by giving workers a greater say in running them . |
| 21 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
| 22 | The boy often went to stay at Ely and at the age of 8 could be observed giving strangers a guided tour . |
| 23 | In 1963 the corporate-tax rate in America was around 50% , giving firms a powerful incentive to borrow more . |
| 24 | HM Customs & Excise is seeking to introduce pay arrangements giving officers a yearly allowance for flexible working , rather than automatic overtime for working Sundays and other days . |
| 25 | Councillors decided the broken down buildings , smashed fences and forgotten scrubland were giving passengers a bad impression of the town . |
| 26 | Luff described himself as ‘ something of a visionary ’ , and during a talk in 1940 indulged in some Wellsian flights of fancy , producing drawings of a tram whose driver 's cab was on the roof giving passengers a clear view forward , and a bus which had folded wings ! |
| 27 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 28 | Pearl also intended to solve its financial management information problems by giving users a true real-time , on-line system . |
| 29 | Whatever the strengths of this approach as a way of giving teachers a practical basis for beginning to change their practice , it carried the risk that some might presume that changing the physical arrangements of a classroom would of itself produce improved learning . |
| 30 | It is a status that we give to very few public servants , but we are giving teachers a special status because we realise that their professionalism and commitment are essential to a good teaching service . |