Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS THE post-mortem into the failed coup in Panama continued yesterday , it emerged that President Bush had approved an order to the US commander in the Canal Zone to remove General Manuel Noriega using covert forces , but the coup fizzled out before the order could be executed . |
| 2 | Seafront hotel , newly refurbished with most rooms enjoying panoramic views of sea and Palace Pier , all doubles en suite , tea and coffee trays , colour TV , movie channel , ground floor and four poster rooms available . |
| 3 | After a dazzling spell at the Beaux Arts school in Paris , Nouvel got his first few jobs building private houses . |
| 4 | What is the difference between building private wings and privatisation ? |
| 5 | The most common cause of this is taking antibiotics by mouth , because these can kill off the ‘ good ’ bacteria in the gut , allowing not-so-good microbes to multiply and replace them . |
| 6 | Growing skill in using computerized databases and statistical software for bibliometric ends ; and |
| 7 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 8 | The Fellowship , organised by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ( SPAB ) , is a six-month training programme during which the craftsmen travel thousands of miles round the country together , studying traditional methods of repairing historic buildings . |
| 9 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , some of them demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 10 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , mainly demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 11 | Specifically a monopolist in residence will equate marginal revenue and marginal cost and earn substantial profits as a result , yet ( small scale ) entry would be barred because costs of producing low outputs are so high . |
| 12 | Consequently , the original policy of allowing tariff-free imports into the zone had little coherence with other national policies . |
| 13 | On Dec. 26 the Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) quoted a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) spokesman in Baghdad as saying that " the justifications for maintaining economic sanctions against Iraq no longer existed " . |
| 14 | They should not be discharged immediately they reach their target weights , but should become accustomed to eating normal meals rather than the high-energy diet necessary for weight gain . |
| 15 | As well as the horror stories of the tsarist penal system and the Stalinist GULag , there are also examples of those exiles who managed to lead a relatively comfortable , if spartan , existence , taking regular exercise , hunting for sport , reading , writing and corresponding fairly freely with fellow exiles , enjoying connubial pleasures and composing theoretical treatises — one thinks particularly of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin who spent three reasonably fruitful and unexacting years , most of the time with his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya , living as a political exile in the home of a rich peasant in the village of Shushenskoe in southern Siberia ( 1897–1900 ) . |
| 16 | Nausea from eating rich foods , like in Pulsatilla , and after dietary indulgences . |
| 17 | A general amnesty was granted allowing political exiles to return freely . |
| 18 | Legislation allowing political parties could be introduced in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 19 | Cross-domain collocations did not appear to be effective , as was expected , which underlined the importance of accurate domain identification when using domain-specific dictionaries . |
| 20 | All I was going to say was that clearly I agree with one thing , but one would assume that as the paper is a really a general outline that we would be seeing specific targets as the agenda 's worked through over the next two three years . |
| 21 | ‘ I put on a light foundation and , using earthy browns , subtly highlighted Fiona 's eyes and shaded in her lips with an amber-coloured lipstick . ’ |
| 22 | Even quite elderly people , male or female , could often earn something towards their maintenance , while the practice of assisting low-wage earners with large families of young children was widespread . |
| 23 | Voluntary organizations already play a major role in providing day centres , lunch clubs , advice and pastoral counselling , and probably the most effective way of providing an acceptable mental health service is by attaching professional workers to the places where homeless people already go willingly for help . |
| 24 | The corps have become , according to Medhurst ( 1973 : 113 ) , ‘ a means of transforming administrative structures to serve private ends ’ . |
| 25 | Most institutions , including the RIBA under present proposals , fall into the middle category , although maintaining professional skills is an implicit , or in many cases explicit , requirement . |
| 26 | The institutions have an evident interest in maintaining professional standards , possibly backed by quality assurance , while competition also demands continuing development . |
| 27 | First , maintaining professional standards has arguably never been more important . |
| 28 | Although the UKCC is the central policy making and administrative body responsible for setting and maintaining professional standards , and much more ( see chapter 5 ) , it is the national board of the country in which you choose to practice that is responsible for executive action on nurse education , ensuring that it meets the UKCC 's rules and requirements . |
| 29 | Being capable of risking showing one 's own personal vulnerability while still maintaining professional standards . |
| 30 | Supra-national institutions can play only a very limited role in assisting disadvantaged areas if national governments have not established suitable domestic structures and procedures . |