Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were arranged so that eight of those attending the seminar gave evidence as expert witnesses . |
| 2 | Although the Oregon Health Commission made strenuous efforts to involve the public , two-thirds of those attending the meetings were graduate educated professionals , and 60 per cent of those were health care workers . |
| 3 | A standard deviation of 8.27 was ascribed to studies using the 21 item scale and 6.81 to those using the 17 item scale . |
| 4 | From that date , certain tram and trolleybus depôts and bus garages were renamed , in cases where there had been one of each bearing the same name . |
| 5 | The procedure thus adopted is one of first checking the spatial relationships in the orthogonal reference space and , if not as desired , moving down to a local containing domain before the uncertainty is reported . |
| 6 | The spacious stone house had originally been one of three sharing the same hilly and thickly wooded parcel of land . |
| 7 | He was a member of commercial deputations to the council , one of the City élite who gave nominal assent to the accession of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] by signing the letters patent of 1553 in her favour , and then one of those organizing the defence of London in 1554 on behalf of Queen Mary against rebels led by Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Then one of those holding the captives at gun point nodded familiarly to the sheriff . |
| 9 | He must have become a fairly senior member of his own company , since he was one of the receiving trustees of Painter-Stainers ' Hall in 1580 , and one of those releasing the hall to others in 1605 . |
| 10 | ‘ Will be one of those guarding the victim , but they may never meet . |
| 11 | But a recent poll of white voters showed only one in four giving the party their support . |
| 12 | He had made his millions by first cornering the estate-agency business in the gaudy resort , and then expanding throughout the north-west . |
| 13 | McBride won world acclaim in 1961 by first suggesting the widely-used sedative Thalidomide , marketed in the 1950s as a cure for morning sickness , was linked with horrific deformities in the babies of mothers who used it . |
| 14 | It was the day that first passengers were pulled , with Hunslet Tank ‘ Alan George ’ No 606 of 1894 providing the traction . |
| 15 | Three pounds , I 'm doing two signings , one is this Sunday at the Radio Lincolnshire Open Show , I 'll be there on Sunday from two till four signing the Good Old Days Quiz Book , two till four this Sunday at Radio Lincolnshire 's Open Day and on Wednesday December the eighth I 'll be at at Nottingham , and doing a signing there for the Good Old Days Quiz Book , B B C publication . |
| 16 | This vector contains the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase promoter from -105 to +51 driving the chloramphenicol acetyl transferase gene followed by the small T intron and polyadenylation signals from SV40 . |