Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you build a water plant in a desert using mediocre technology , you 're a superstar . |
| 2 | By late October , however , it had become the ‘ universal Topic ’ in a more serious sense , and on one occasion was expounded by Coleridge in a conversation lasting six hours . |
| 3 | The DoE issued advice , in a circular bearing this title , on a wide range of administrative matters related to planning applications , increased their inspectorate to deal with appeals , and appointed Mr G. Dobry QC , to undertake a rapid review of the development control system . |
| 4 | A recent hearing of the Disciplinary Tribunal highlighted the dangers , albeit in a case involving two sole practitioners . |
| 5 | As John Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , observed in his summing-up in a case involving alleged racism by the headteacher in a Brent infant school : |
| 6 | The mainspring of his actions as archbishop he spelled out in a letter to the king in 1281 : all Christian rulers derived their authority from , and were subordinate to , ecclesiastical law , to which kings , by virtue of their great dignity , were bound in a degree exceeding that of any other layman . |
| 7 | Purchasers will need more advice on prescribing ; in a contract setting this will include the definition of health gain from drugs , secondary care agreement of joint treatment protocols , systems to ensure appropriate prescribing at the primary care and secondary care interface , and definition of the standards and range of pharmaceutical services . |
| 8 | These are single shares in a company containing special rights which effectively grant the shareholder , normally an institution , the right to veto certain actions of the company . |
| 9 | If the Government can seriously contemplate investing £3,000 million in a company employing 100,000 people , they should also be prepared to start the discussion by studying the proposition with a view to supporting a project which could be of tremendous advantage to the nation as a whole . |
| 10 | According to Peter Hume , finance director of stockbrokers Seymour Pierce Butterfield , investors considering buying shares in a company offering concessionary discounts should only do so on the merits of the shares . |
| 11 | Intuitively , it would seem desirable that whatever account we give for the role of an expression like in other words in a phrasal apposition like [ 10 ] we give the same account for its role in a reformulation involving complete sentences , for example [ 9 ] . |
| 12 | Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning , then he 'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘ All gods are bastards ’ . |
| 13 | Some small whales perform even more impressively — pilot whales can go to 600 metres ( almost 2000 feet ) in a dive lasting 18 minutes , and the beluga can reach 650 metres ( more than 2000 feet ) . |
| 14 | Of particular interest were the methods employed to land in a crosswind approaching crabbed with the nose as far into-wind as possible while maintaining the centreline of the runway . |
| 15 | One , code-named Concord , dealt with how the armed forces would drive NHS ambulances , and the other , code-named Lionel , with a limited service in a strike involving certain ancillary workers . |
| 16 | If there are more in a household earning good money , they will pay more . |
| 17 | When assembled , the osmometer is placed in a jacket containing enough solvent to cover the bottom part of the reference capillary s . |
| 18 | In a patient presenting late or after a particularly large overdose recognition of the onset of liver failure is crucial . |
| 19 | In November , 1990 , Denega approached Steven Mann , 23 , of Ilsington , Devon , and asked him if it was possible ‘ to put a crack in a building using explosive ’ . |
| 20 | I wound and wound but the bucket slowly descended , Ma calling my name in a voice getting smaller and smaller . |
| 21 | Ghent illustrates the metamorphosis from Gothic to Renaissance forms since the right-hand part of the building is in an exceptionally ornamented Gothic with a quantity of figure sculpture and the left portion is fully classical in a façade using three superimposed orders . |
| 22 | We report the clinical effects of a 30 second delay in cord clamping , holding the preterm infant in a position facilitating placental transfusion . |
| 23 | RUGBY UNION : Auckland hooker Sean Fitzpatrick was yesterday named as All Blacks captain in a squad containing 10 newcomers for three matches against a World XV this month . |
| 24 | Federal troops took control on Saturday of another mainly Muslim town , Modrica , which lies in a corridor connecting Serbian enclaves in northern Bosnia . |
| 25 | The vital statistics of the standard are a tape 8 mm wide , coated with pure metal ( instead of the conventional metal oxide ) housed in a cassette measuring 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.5 centimetres . |
| 26 | Some years ago much interest was shown in the production of Single Cell Protein ( SCP ) either by the bacterial degradation of oil products or by the intensive culturing of algae in a medium containing inorganic nitrogen compounds . |
| 27 | Briefly , approximately 100 mg pancreatic tissue from each animal was homogenized in a medium containing 0.25 M sucrose , 1 mM ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid ( EDTA ) and 25 mg% soybean trypsin inhibitor in a Dounce homogeniser ( using five up and down strokes of the ‘ B ’ pestle ) . |
| 28 | During the war my mother worked in a factory making endless ground sheets which I was told could be turned into trench capes . |
| 29 | France 's Thomson invested in a factory making cathode-ray tubes but found that if Poland sent the EC more than 2.5m ecus-worth ( $1.1m ) of tubes it got hit by tariffs . |
| 30 | Faith Abraham , who used to work in a factory making artificial jewellery , is married to a labourer ; she was born and brought up in Ireland : |