Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [noun] of [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently , the chips are able to handle a maximum resolution of 1,024 horizontal by 512 vertical pixels allowing delivery of extremely high resolution still images . |
| 2 | Marketing director Robin Whitbread said : ‘ We expect this will be significant with more than eight million shoppers taking advantage of over 750 lines . |
| 3 | And the attraction for them is not the crystal clear images of HDTV , but the prospect of broadcasting up to a dozen channels carrying pictures of today 's conventional clarity over cables or satellite transponders that now carry only one channel , a marvel made possible by digital compression . |
| 4 | The terms under which the EIB was formed prescribe that the purpose of finance provided shall be to support : projects aiding development of less advanced regions of the Community ; modernization and conversion projects in essentially declining areas ; and projects , usually large , which are of interest to several member countries or the Community as a whole . |
| 5 | Foreign financial instruments might be listed without restriction on the Spanish stock market , and companies seeking loans of over 1,550 million pesetas ( about US$14,750,000 ) would no longer need to secure official permission . |
| 6 | Colourful houses are on every side , with frescoes celebrating heroes of long ago and episodes that are remembered from centuries back in Swiss history . |
| 7 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 8 | Position the pieces leaving gaps of about 18mm between each . |
| 9 | Recent studies involving measurement of both intracellular and canalicular pH in isolated rat hepatocyte couplets suggest that ursodeoxycholic acid does not directly activate acid base transport systems in hepatocytes ( although an effect on bile ductular cells has yet to be excluded ) . |
| 10 | The crystal structure shows that CsA binds to CypA with the side chains of MeBmt-1 , Abu-2 , Sar-3 , MeLeu-9 , MeLeu-10 and MeVal-11 of CsA making contacts of less than 4 with the CypA residues Arg 55 , Phe 60 , Met 61 , Gln 63 , Gly 72 , Ala 101 , Asn 102 , Ala 103 , Gln 111 , Phe 113 , Trp 121 , Leu 122 , His 126 ( Fig. 3 a ) . |
| 11 | There were all these different characters pursuing activities of vastly varying degrees of dodginess . |
| 12 | There is a matching 1 per cent discount for 12 months for borrowers wanting loans of more than £50,000 . |
| 13 | SFV Holidays , based in Oxford , collapsed last week leaving debts of more than £1 million and more than 3,000 customers with no holiday and no refund because the company had no insurance . |
| 14 | The seymouriamorphs were a major phylum on the evolutionary ladder with a skeleton featuring characteristics of both reptiles and amphibians , and probably were descendants of a missing link of transitional animals . |
| 15 | Although the EC offered in August 1990 to abolish all support for projects involving aircraft of under 100 seats , and to reduce all other development aid by one-third , the US government threatened in mid-1991 to take the issue to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 16 | The main reason for this exceptional growth was the supply of Rufus Dog Food to in Germany achieving sales of over £3.5 million in its first year . |
| 17 | League tables ranking the top earners show executives such as Tiny Rowland of Lonrho and Sir Ralph Halpern of Burton enjoying salaries of around 1 million per year . |
| 18 | An impressive set of performances , then , though at a total playing time of less than 57 minutes it should surely have been possible to fit in another item . |
| 19 | Erich Kunzel and the Rochester Pops Orchestra makes a good job of Candide , but then disaster strikes : over 28 minutes ( out of a total playing time of less than 62 ) is devoted to a certain ‘ Promenade Orchestra ’ , conducted by Alfred Gehardt , in some of the naffest arrangements of five numbers from West End Story that you 're ever likely to hear . |
| 20 | The seminars also address some of the ethical issues surrounding investigations of politically sensitive issues in education . |
| 21 | In using the datafiles , pupils will be expected to use and extend the following general categories of enquiry/communication skills selecting information ( communication skills ) processing information ( inquiry skills ) communicating information ( communication skills ) with the selecting and processing of information combining elements of both inquiry and communication skills . |
| 22 | The child care initiative launched by my predecessor involving expenditure of over forty million pounds over the period is giving training and enterprise councils the opportunity to come forward with some very imaginative and innovative schemes . |
| 23 | These high-performance , rugged tools are claimed to offer the best value for money on the market for the enthusiastic d-i-yer and tradesman , and for the first time offer the possibility of a battery recharging time of just a quarter of an hour . |
| 24 | They had no reason to lack confidence in their own assessment — Holland was the home of Fokker and KLM had been established since 1919 , each company producing generations of highly competent aeronautical engineers . |
| 25 | A thumping 83% of both bosses and outside directors said , ‘ represent shareholder interests ’ — way ahead of any other function . |
| 26 | Further journal files are kept of all file activity permitting recovery of virtually all data in the event of catastrophic disc failures or other disasters of comparable severity , using ‘ roll-forward ’ protocols . |
| 27 | Planning should begin with an analysis of the present position taking account of both internal and external factors and a forecast of future developments , moving on to the definition of broad aims . |
| 28 | There is typically a gradation over tens of metres from fresh bedrock , through weathering material incorporating corestones of relatively unweathered rock , to clay-rich horizons capped by a soil . |
| 29 | A dossier containing details of more than a hundred prisoners who may have been wrongfully convicted has been presented to the Home Office . |