Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] " 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 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 3 | Taken together , therefore , these new courses and the DMS represent relatively little decline overall in the numbers of students in the maintained sector pursuing post-experience management education in the last few years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After lunch in a sheltered spot in the garden she 'd vetoed the idea of going sailing , despite Rune 's assurance that like many Danes he was a competent sportsman on the water , enjoying water-skiing and sailboarding as well as yachting . |
| 6 | Although the line can be wrapped overarm onto the handle easily , there is always the risk of generating that ‘ twist ’ . |
| 7 | Rather than start from a symbol and find what sentences can be generated from it , one can begin with a sentence and a grammar , and find a way of generating that sentence . |
| 8 | The cash would eradicate borrowings , allowing Allied to expand . |
| 9 | Following the debacle of 1931 , the trade unions came to play an increasingly important part in shaping Labour policy . |
| 10 | Still floppy from giggling they were careful to avoid catching each other 's eye , but there was warmth and repose enough there to set against the hardness of the day 's demands . |
| 11 | Ultimately , however , Egyptian Christianity 's most lasting effect was less its simple perpetuation of Nazarean thought than its development of an administrative system for housing and transmitting that thought . |
| 12 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 13 | After a dazzling spell at the Beaux Arts school in Paris , Nouvel got his first few jobs building private houses . |
| 14 | What is the difference between building private wings and privatisation ? |
| 15 | At bottom I think the question of recovering economic loss is one of policy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now such respected independent institutions as the Fraser of Allander Institute are forecasting that recovery will not arrive until the second half of the year . |
| 18 | Icke , whose only previous North-East connection was in forecasting that Teesside later amended to Tayside would be under water by Christmas , has been signed as a goalie by Jewson Wessex League club Ryde Sports . |
| 19 | By the next morning its hyperactivity had returned , and to make future ease of handling possible it was decided to employ the Walther method of de-clawing . |
| 20 | Who gets to define , measure and act on quality in the NHS is , according to Pollitt ( 1992 ) , divided up along " tribal " lines reflecting professional demarcation boundaries and struggles for control among competing groups . |
| 21 | The adolescent Bisus were coming out of trance , and now sat bruised and perspiring together , simpering and repairing each other 's damaged make-up . |
| 22 | Make regular water changes using conditioned water and occasionally some more ‘ starter ’ |
| 23 | Consequently readmission has little future as a general indicator of outcome , even though the increasing ease with which this index may be calculated by using computerized patient admission data bases is a strong attraction . |
| 24 | Growing skill in using computerized databases and statistical software for bibliometric ends ; and |
| 25 | The advantage of the Garrett system is that it is a convenient way of handling largish numbers of PP3s . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , some of them demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 28 | Produce , independently , pieces of writing using complete sentences , mainly demarcated with capital letters and full stops or question marks . |
| 29 | ‘ Right now we 're concentrating a lot of experimentation on bass strings , and especially on producing low B strings for 5-string basses . |
| 30 | 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 . |