Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 2 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 3 | There were eighty-eight photos or illustrations relating to this court case and the aftermath , virtually equalling the number found for all the other rape cases in the year . |
| 4 | Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities . |
| 5 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 6 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 7 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 8 | The futures price tends to fall over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , at which time the basis is zero . |
| 9 | The futures price tends to rise over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , so again the basis is zero at delivery . |
| 10 | A massive 1000 t steel rotor with 10 m long arms could be spun so that the tips moved at 1000 m s -1 , equalling the speed of sound in steel . |
| 11 | The peaks of Ingleborough and Whernside are prominent southwards , and Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat in the Pennines eastwards , but the gem of the panorama is the serrated skyline of the Lakeland fells overtopping the Howgills and forming an exciting western horizon . |
| 12 | Unable to stop , she collided heavily with the man ascending the stairs , only his strength and quick reflexes preventing them both from tumbling the rest of the way . |
| 13 | Our wickets started tumbling the moment we went in . |
| 14 | There was no one much remaining to hear this — only Garvey , Lucie unbridling the horses , and Izzie and Gabriel standing by . |
| 15 | So our grand scheme for utopianizing the world was settled in two scuffles . |
| 16 | We have an awkward , and increasingly tense discussion about the use of such songs — for though I wholeheartedly agree that all the ideas they promote are self-evidently good things , I worry simply whether such songs have any positive effect — and they start bandying the word ‘ cynic ’ . |
| 17 | Over my dead body ! ’ — a tempting proposition — and bandying the phrase , ‘ Police harassment ’ , gleaned from the media , at every opportunity . |
| 18 | As he was a very intellectual artist , he was the ideal figure to take over from Metzinger the task of transmitting the principles of Cubism to the other painters ; and since he joined the group at a moment when the movement was striving for greater definition , his influence and importance can not be overestimated . |
| 19 | They used a fibre optic probe of 1250 , 700 or 450 µm diameter measurement area , transmitting the CL through an external light pipe to the entrance of a grating monochromator . |
| 20 | Ragusa became an important entrepôt , which , in the words of Sir Paul Rycant , a shrewd English observer , writing in 1668 , was ‘ the port for transmitting the manufactures of Venice , and all Italy , into Turkey ’ , and in return received the necessities of life for distribution to the rest of Europe , often in its own ships . |
| 21 | Given the most rapid detection possible , the most effective means of transmitting the call to the fire services and their most prompt attendance , it is reasonable to suppose that in the absence of an effective automatic fire extinguishing system or even the benefit of a conventional one , that the fire will have reached a well advanced stage on their arrival . |
| 22 | Transmitting the vision |
| 23 | ARGO is controlled by an IBM-PC , and will operate in a wide range of environments , storing data locally on floppy disk or transmitting the values to a collection site via telephone , radio or satellite links . |
| 24 | As mentioned earlier , the HMIs took an altogether more sophisticated view of the relationship of education to society and to social change , and like the Education , Science and Arts Committee ( 1981 ) saw a conflict between transmitting the values of society and preparing young people to change those values . |
| 25 | To know this is useful , but to identify those media is to identify the means for transmitting the values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture , and not to identify the political culture itself . |
| 26 | And a strong pelvic girdle with links was essential for transmitting the support of the fin/legs to a gradually strengthening spine . |
| 27 | They can be of great service in transmitting the Faith , even though they can never replace the personal witness which is essential to the proclamation of the full truth and value of the Christian message . |
| 28 | In the late 1980s , the need for education about the dangers of transmitting the AIDS virus justified a degree of public explicitness which would have been unthinkable in previous decades . |
| 29 | Some progress towards satisfying King 's other requirement ( the form of ‘ transmitting the project ’ through the organization ) will be considered in chapter 7 . |
| 30 | The television experiment was given greater significance , however , by the recent radical changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ; at the time when TV Martí began transmitting the Castro regime appeared more beleaguered and vulnerable to outside subversion than at any time since the early 1960s . |