Example sentences of "[v-ing] [n mass] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March 1992 , 3.64m people had opened Tessa accounts , depositing £10bn and therefore removing that much spending power from the economy for five years — a side-effect for which Mr Major might not wish to claim too personal a responsibility . |
| 2 | A more sophisticated use of doubling and halving was used by another pupil to find how much 3 lbs of pears would cost : the pupil doubled 2 lbs costing 30p to obtain 4 lbs costing 60p and then said that 45 was halfway between 30 and 60 . |
| 3 | Ken would go on upsetting people and then apologizing for his actions . |
| 4 | Either by cutting staff and hence costs , or by finding outside customers . |
| 5 | We shall not attempt a complete classification of the different possibilities for using graphics but simply give a few examples and point out some general possibilities and dangers . |
| 6 | The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard . |