Example sentences of "[n mass] [coord] [v-ing] [art] [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 | ‘ The next day you are on an aircraft and having a bumpy ride . |
| 3 | After a manual survey of a property the user could simply spend 10 to 15 minutes entering the data and selecting the required radiators . |
| 4 | The painstaking restoration of the 125-year-old spire cost £150,000 and building a new church in the next 18 months will total £1.2m , excluding fees . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Eighteen years away from a stage , eighteen years and she 'd forgotten until now that terrifying gut-wrenching dread of stepping out in front of several hundred people and making a total fool of yourself . |
| 7 | An Azerbaijani civilian helicopter was shot down near Shusha on Jan. 28 , killing an estimated 40 people and prompting a major Azerbaijani offensive against Stepanakert on Jan. 31 . |
| 8 | The fact that such an ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ is not unrelated to other , much more obviously parricidal ones , and that all of these insurrections against cultural restraint can be traced to childhood failures in the acquisition of the superego is nicely illustrated by an Italian terrorist who , having put his revolutionary ideology into practice by murdering seventeen people and kidnapping an American general , justified his activities at his trial by proudly explaining that ‘ My challenge began from the school benches of Centocelle [ his home town ] . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The rival Christian forces traded rocket and machine gun fire in Beirut on March 9 , killing two people and ending the week-long truce . |
| 11 | discount on goods being purchased at a supplier , by dishonestly operating a computer used by the sales staff and entering a false discount . |
| 12 | Example — a vessel insured for $1,500 and following a major casualty it becomes clear that it can not be repaired for less than $1,700 . |
| 13 | They are based upon our ways of treating animals , whether it be killing them painlessly or protecting an endangered species or preserving a natural habitat . |
| 14 | AN America banker , accused of embezzling $13m and sparking a financial crisis in the state of Rhode Island , yesterday gave himself up to the authorities . |
| 15 | The Sales Director is proposing to boost sales by reducing the selling price to £17 and spending an additional £3,000 per month on advertising . |
| 16 | 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 . |