Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Following the debacle of 1931 , the trade unions came to play an increasingly important part in shaping Labour policy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 8 | At bottom I think the question of recovering economic loss is one of policy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The adolescent Bisus were coming out of trance , and now sat bruised and perspiring together , simpering and repairing each other 's damaged make-up . |
| 13 | Make regular water changes using conditioned water and occasionally some more ‘ starter ’ |
| 14 | Instead , we are trapped in a cycle of a low skilled workforce being supervised by poorly-trained managers , producing low quality goods and services . |
| 15 | Once the inner is up and pegged out the flysheet , made from 190D double coated pu nylon , goes over the top and is pegged to the ground using eight ground points and two guylines . |
| 16 | Using eight display screens the team on duty can monitor and control the pressures and flows of gas coming into the region through the national and regional offtakes , maintaining safe operating limits and ensuring demand is met . |
| 17 | However you may be interested to know what goes into producing each issue . |
| 18 | So it may well be that indirectly , whether consciously or unconsciously Trivers ' own thinking was influenced by Freudian findings erm , I do n't know , I 'm pursuing that possibility . |
| 19 | But I hope that by pursuing that course we can also help others set high standards — help others win the argument for paying for good journalism : for supporting good journalism ; for scheduling good journalism . |
| 20 | ‘ A Government with any heart and sense would already be pursuing that strategy . ’ |
| 21 | Whether or not he believed Maureen 's claim that her father met his death at the hands of political opponents , Brian Berg was dutifully pursuing that line . |
| 22 | You 're in danger of every time you 're praising that person , they 're going to be sitting back waiting for the straight away , so you could n't , if you go up to somebody and they 've generally done a superb job and you ca n't fault him , and he knows he 's done a really good job , but he 's just sitting back waiting for you to way what , what you 've done wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ Jorja , stop poisoning that boy 's mind against me . ’ |
| 24 | Those industrial societies which were ( and in a few cases still are ) collectivist and centrally planned , have had to cope with different problems , although they too were affected by economic recession , and faced some of the same difficulties in maintaining economic growth . |
| 25 | They are a lovey-dovey couple , much given , for reasons that remain obscure , to roguishly gagging each other with bits of masking tape , but tension sets in with the arrival of Clara 's best friend Lillibet from America . |
| 26 | Even is we use only the lowest numbers available , based on official statistics , we are still seeing acute poverty for 873,000 people . |
| 27 | The apple trees covered the whole orchard and were very close together , most of their branches touching each other . |
| 28 | And if the herd is threatened , they will gallop off together or maybe huddle together , touching each other for reassurance . |
| 29 | But it should n't make people scared of touching each other . |
| 30 | And she reached up and rubbed out the two upright strokes , replacing them with diagonal ones leaning in and touching each other at the top . |