Example sentences of "[n mass] and [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mayne received his first DSO for a raid on Tamet airfield , only three weeks after the initial disaster , destroying fourteen enemy aircraft and damaging ten others . |
| 2 | It was a test that the Three-Ninetieth passed with flying colours destroying thirteen enemy aircraft and achieving excellent bombing results . |
| 3 | His biggest piece was a vestibule door panel depicting a heron and measuring four feet by three feet . |
| 4 | Because Lysenko , a crackpot geneticist , was the modern pioneer of bending scientific data and bashing professional opponents to suit the reigning political preference — not unlike the EPA administrators who dealt with dioxin contamination by re-writing the reports and intimidating their various authors , Lysenko was so preeminent in this process that common English usage has accorded him an eponymous distinction : ‘ Lysenkoism ’ is now the accepted term for politically enforced manipulation of scientific truth . |
| 5 | Teaching staff have a number of needs for information , and for assistance with recording assessment data and keeping other course records . |
| 6 | Data analysis has become interactive , with the scientist interrogating the data and deciding new paths for investigation based on immediate feedback . |
| 7 | The doyen of insider trading may be a shadow of his former power after paying fines of $100million and spending two years in prison , but his legacy lives on in criminal trials on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 8 | ‘ In northern Europe , Canada and the northeast of the United States , the rain is turning rivers , lakes and ponds acidic , killing fish and decimating other water life . |
| 9 | But there is no finer place than Gol-Oya to see numbers of these great birds in action catching fish and performing aerial courtship displays in the breeding season . |
| 10 | During 1976 , when the weather was warm and dry , record-breaking ozone levels were detected , reaching over 200 ppb and exceeding 60 ppb on half the summer days . |
| 11 | Administrative control refers to the data that are gained by the presence of a wealth tax , enabling the cross-checking of statistics and facilitating good tax administration and reduced evasion . |
| 12 | By intensifying and controlling his livestock and introducing arable crops , the farmer must plan carefully to ensure that the natural cycle of return continues to operate evenly over the whole of his land . |
| 13 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 14 | On Feb. 2 , National Guardsmen forcibly dispersed a meeting , killing two people and injuring several others . |
| 15 | Bombs exploded in Amritsar and Patiala on June 4 , killing eight people and injuring 35 others . |
| 16 | Unidentified gunmen attacked the demonstrators , killing 25 people and injuring 82 others . |
| 17 | A HUGE bomb exploded in the centre of Portadown today injuring six people and causing widespread devastation . |
| 18 | Previous eruptions of the volcano had occurred in 1971 and 1973 causing the death of five people and affecting 35,000 hectares of land . |
| 19 | Since then Citigate has grown substantially , now producing a fee income in excess of £7m , a turnover of between £15m and £20m , employing around 160 people and serving 250 clients , ranging from the London Stock Exchange to Taunton Cider and Kentucky Fried Chicken . |
| 20 | The delegates went to the border and spent three days there screening hundreds of people and conducting in-depth interviews with many of them . |
| 21 | But just because Club 18–30 is a great place for meeting people and making new friends of either sex , it does n't mean to say that those people who already have someone special in their lives ca n't come and join in the fun as well . |
| 22 | AN ARTILLERY duel was fought between Israeli troops and guerrillas in southern Lebanon yesterday , killing two people and wounding two others . |
| 23 | A DRAMATIC mission to rescue desperate Bosnian Muslim civilians was suspended yesterday after Serb forces opened fire on unarmed United Nations helicopters , killing at least three people and wounding six others . |
| 24 | A bomb exploded in the railway station in Mandalay on Dec. 11 , killing two people and wounding 18 others . |
| 25 | On May 21 Israeli fighter aircraft attacked Hezbollah positions around Janta in the eastern Bekaa near the Syrian border , killing seven people and wounding 18 others . |
| 26 | The kind of religion that people like in this country is to do , I think , with their sense of identity as being British people and following British habits and customs . |
| 27 | Since Warnock , some sense of national direction has been given by the work of a number of agencies , not least Her Majesty 's Inspectorate , which has played a very important role , instilling confidence in college staff and promoting good quality provision . |
| 28 | Then , working with staff and using these projects as ‘ guinea pigs ’ , the Centre has begun to look at what makes projects of this kind succeed and whether there are general support mechanisms ( eg. materials , training ) which the Enterprise Centre could help to develop as a resource for academic staff . |
| 29 | The growth and international expansion of the hotel and catering industry has been phenomenal during the past decade , ensuring a constant demand for trained and skilled staff and providing ample opportunity for those who are temperamentally suited to the industry . |
| 30 | Organizations using open-ended contracts always make clear in the course of recruiting staff and making formal job offers that the employment is seasonal . |