Example sentences of "a [noun pl] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a joint venture with Petrolimex , the Vietnamese state oil company , BP became the first major oil company to build a lubricants blending plant and to market lubricants in that country . |
| 2 | It was learnt yesterday county councillors have already considered ending a schools cleaning contract awarded to a private firm hired to look after Middlesbrough schools after the it notched up 22 default notices between last August and May 1 . |
| 3 | Representatives of foreign , defence and border guard ministries of CIS member states met in Tashkent ( Uzbekistan ) on July 16 to discuss the establishment of a CIS peacekeeping force . |
| 4 | On 4 June the Company introduced a parcels carrying service , using the front platforms of Mitcham & Sutton cars . |
| 5 | Bob Holmes on a fearless Thai player and a three-times losing finalist aiming to capture the sport 's biggest prize |
| 6 | Representing as they have done the interests of a high-seas trading nation ( Britain still exports more per head of population than does Japan ) , British post-war leaders of all political persuasions , from Nye Bevan to Margaret Thatcher , have largely based their economic policies on the need to expand trade . |
| 7 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 8 | Counting on us all , either to celebrate or drown our sorrows , are the big brewers as they embark on a results reporting season . |
| 9 | The Aussies use a points grading system to decide on whether to let you in . |
| 10 | Charlie Wilson died in 1988 in a drugs dealing dispute . |
| 11 | Equally , once proceedings are under way , the solicitor must be guided by the all important principle that the litigation is not an exercise on its own but is part of a claims handling system . |
| 12 | At this stage , a benefits checking service might reveal unclaimed benefits such as attendance allowance , which could attract a £33.70 severe disability premium . |
| 13 | Rule 15 of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 requires solicitors to " operate a complaints handling procedure which shall , inter alia , ensure that clients are informed whom to approach in the event of any problem with the service provided " . |
| 14 | The Law Society Rules also require us to operate a complaints handling procedure in the event of there being a serious complaint . |
| 15 | Home 2 is one of five Homes run by a Churches Housing Trust . |
| 16 | It is plain that Brussels is pursuing a policy of ‘ regionalisation ’ of industry and agriculture and , in the over-all plan , Great Britain does not feature as a coal producing region nor , in that case , as a chemicals producing region . |
| 17 | The US Clean Air Acts ( 19S5 , 1970,1977 ) have established an environmental policy that includes an emissions trading programme and bubble policy . |
| 18 | Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user . |
| 19 | Another extension offered with Open Digital Studio is OpenModel , an Applications Programming Interface that enables users to write custom software to manipulate Alias-created models and import them into other digital media applications . |
| 20 | Ironically the smuggling vessel turned out to be the " Dunlin " , which was an ex-customs boarding launch , previously stationed at Erith and sold in 1967 . |
| 21 | The sixth building , an explosives testing bunker , was filled with concrete . |
| 22 | He 's an archetypal nice bloke who is the first to get his round in at the Blighty Bar , an after-hours drinking club which we establish on the steps of the hotel after we discover that Tokyo shuts at 10.30 . |
| 23 | The company also described the spillage as a minor one , and said that ten days previously an IIRS monitoring test had found emission levels from the factory to be satisfactory . |