Example sentences of "[n mass] [coord] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robertson then attacked another Ju87 from dead ahead , a bullet from the dive-bomber 's forward guns hitting his aircraft and puncturing the main fuel tank in the port wing . |
| 2 | After a manual survey of a property the user could simply spend 10 to 15 minutes entering the data and selecting the required radiators . |
| 3 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |
| 4 | For those who might have missed his point however , Williams wrote for the ‘ Trinidad Guardian ’ soon after , ‘ I see in the denominational school the breeding ground of disunity ; I see in the state school the opportunity for cultivating a spirit of nationalism among West Indian people and eradicating the racial suspicions and antagonisms growing in our midst ’ . |
| 5 | The rival Christian forces traded rocket and machine gun fire in Beirut on March 9 , killing two people and ending the week-long truce . |
| 6 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |