Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Risbridger said they planned to invest and upgrade dock facilities by developing riverside berths capable of handling 8,000 tonnes .
2 The South African government has approved a project to build a plant capable of handling 500,000 tons of imported waste a year .
3 Finally on the CD front is the CDC-625 multi-disc player ( £299.95 ) , again using SL-Bit and capable of handling five discs at a time .
4 It was expected that the airport would be capable of handling 80,000,000 passengers a year , while the port extensions would increase fivefold the colony 's present cargo handling capacity .
5 It is clear ( and quite natural ) that in the rush to set up such a massive process , capable of handling 10,000 registrations , there is some unevenness in the processing .
6 If he had no intention of using four foreigners , why did he have them among his sixteen ?
7 THE ADVANTAGES OF USING FIFTY MILLESIMALS .
8 Nevertheless , at some future data an exercise would be undertaken by the Organization and Methods section to examine the feasibility of using one document to produce the updating information required by both the Payroll Master File and the PMIS .
9 In this way , the trick of using two cores has performed the seemingly impossible task of isolating the tiny wanted signal from the comparatively huge unwanted one .
10 The idea of using two microphones appeals to me because it could stimulate two ears .
11 A WOMAN law clerk was remanded in custody yesterday at Manchester magistrates ' court , accused of helping two prisoners escape from the court where they were on trial over the Strangeways jail riot .
12 And generally it is the case that the personal security of the part-time reserve police is most at risk of all the members of the RUC , because of the difficulties of maintaining three identities ( police officer , member of family and neighbourhood network , and employee ) , with their associated and sometimes conflicting modes of discourse and thinking .
13 He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year .
14 It was just the shock of seeing two policemen on her doorstep .
15 The largest wind generator in operation is probably the NASA MOD 1 at Boone , in North Carolina ( sponsored by the US Department of Energy ) which has a 200 foot diameter and is capable of generating two megawatts of peak power .
16 When Nizan repeatedly asserted that peace was " indivisible " , his intention was to highlight the inadequacy of " localising " disputes between nation states , of allowing one nation to use force against another with impunity .
17 One of the main problems , particularly at the Everest base camp , is this business of allowing eight expeditions to climb Everest at the same time .
18 The fundamental question to be answered was this : what is the purpose of allowing 26,000 ranchers to graze their livestock on 280m acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) lands ?
19 she 's started Liam , they 're having a pre-packed school at Durham choir boys , whatever it is , cos he 's from school , apparently the locality of demanding six year olds and under so they and another la labouring school
20 The Uzi is capable of firing thirty rounds a second and detectives are glad to have captured what they have .
21 By contemporary standards forward armament on the Perth was heavy , comprising a 37mm COW automatic gun mounted in the bow cockpit capable of firing pound shells at 100 rounds per minute .
22 " there 's the very devil of a horseman in yonder field who thinks nothing of eating three tigers for breakfast ! "
23 If the order was to advance , a man 's chances of completing twenty yards would not have been considered worth chalking up on a bookie 's blackboard .
24 He had also to tackle the technical problems of bringing two curriculum systems into one entity .
25 Planned projects included a joint venture with Fiat to build a car plant near Tiaret , about 225 km south-west of Algiers , capable of producing 40,000 cars per year .
26 At the same time , Honda announced a £300 million investment for an assembly plant at Swindon , capable of producing 100,000 cars a year by 1994 .
27 The unit , located between the engine and gearbox , was capable of producing 510 b.h.p. at 11 000 r.p.m .
28 Consider a single firm which initially has a stock of ten machines each of which is capable of producing 100 units of output per year .
29 Nissan , Japan 's second largest car manufacturer , put forward proposals in 1981 to establish a plant capable of producing 200,000 cars a year by 1986 .
30 The Dutch government has set a target of producing 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the year 2000 thorough wind power generation .
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