Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [adj] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe it 's like driving an expensive sports car : you ease through city traffic , choking on fumes and endless queueing , and then you finally edge out onto a motorway , you drop down into a stronger gear , and you press the accelerator . |
| 2 | Over a quarter of respondents claimed that their organisation was either implementing and operating an Open Systems strategy . |
| 3 | It was in a cinema on 86th Street where he sat in the balcony , wearing an old sports jacket and open-necked shirt . |
| 4 | The Local Police Authority ( made up of twelve elected councillors and six appointed magistrates ) is responsible for maintaining an adequate police force ( i.e. in terms of finance , equipment , accommodation and personnel ) , and making arrangements for local consultation . |
| 5 | Blood samples were collected from all available family members and DNA extracted from the leucocytes using an Applied Biosystems Model 340 DNA Extractor . |
| 6 | The use of B avoids the problem of estimating the normal level of government expenditure which , ADD argue , Barro handles inconsistently since he assumes that agents form their expectations about normal government expenditure using an adaptive expectations mechanism , while assuming that agents form their expectations rationally elsewhere in the system . |
| 7 | A MANCHESTER-based gamesmaker is blaming an international loans fraud for its failure to pay creditors . |
| 8 | In effect , all problems then become ‘ routine affairs ’ of a technical kind — controlling inflation , increasing productivity , implementing an effective incomes policy , or finding a solution to the instability of exchange rates — on the basis of a presumed political consensus which obscures the real existence of dominant and subordinate groups in society and the conflict between them . |
| 9 | The effects of the roles of teachers in precipitating an active sports interest can be , as I have pointed out , debilitating academically . |
| 10 | Final 1 Rotherham 314 pts ; 2 Trafford 295 ; 3 City of Hull 249 ; 4 Border 240 ; 5 Gateshead 215 ; 6 Rowntree 207 ; 7 Stockport 164. — World mile record holder Steve Cram continued his belated build-up to this week 's Olympic trial by winning an 800 metres race for Jarrow and Hebburn in a modest 1min 51.1secs in a Panasonic Northern League Division Two match at Leeds . |
| 11 | It is planning an Open Connections Programme to forge links between users and vendors to begin late summer , and is now undertaking a feasibility study into setting up an Evaluation Laboratory to provide a showcase for users . |