Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [adv] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spanish are now promoting the use of the caper berry , the fruit that is produced after the plant has flowered , as a garnish for both food and drinks . |
| 2 | MBV and Lush are perhaps pointing the way with their 50/50 male-female splits . |
| 3 | ‘ This is however nearing the end of its useful life and is therefore currently under review . |
| 4 | This is simply watching the patient who has been given the medicines . |
| 5 | This is really scraping the bottom of the barrel , selling off the defence related industries of our country and I do n't believe the people of this country will be prepared to put up with that . |
| 6 | This is gradually strengthening the case of those who argue that Britain should have a Bill of Rights which incorporates the European convention . |
| 7 | This was broadly speaking the approach adopted in Chapter 2 , and it led to a model which located each discipline somewhere in a three-dimensional space , defined by its object , stance and mode , all of which may vary over time . |
| 8 | This was perhaps stretching the point . |
| 9 | In July 1628 he became vice-chamberlain to Queen Henrietta Maria , and on 30 March 1629 was unsuccessfully seeking the comptrollership of the household . |
| 10 | Many are still facing the uncertainty of life in refugee camps a year after leaving their homes . |
| 11 | Unix System Laboratories ( which has a stake in Chorus ) and Unix International are also supporting the effort , which aims to integrate the Chorus/Mix microkernel technology into Unix System V.4 . |
| 12 | It seems highly likely that CFCs and N 2 0 are already damaging the ozone layer . |
| 13 | While Unix International is currently keeping the report under wraps , Locus is keen to talk about its own conclusions . |
| 14 | In the above quote , Sioned is simply acknowledging the authority of the lecturers to define what ‘ physics ’ is , and accepting that this will necessarily result in formal relationships . |
| 15 | United are rapidly reaching the stage where you would be lucky to give them away . |
| 16 | London-based Personal Workstations Ltd is now offering the XI extension to XVT 's graphical user interface toolkit for £275 : developed by Orca Software , Colorado , XI allows portable database applications to be created that take advantage of the environments XVT supports . |
| 17 | During the night a German 88 was intermittently shelling the road , making sleep impossible . |
| 18 | But even in the teeth of a recession , companies large and small are successfully gaining the backing of the venture capital funds and paying them back handsomely . |
| 19 | Even in the teeth of a recession , companies large and small are successfully gaining the backing of the venture capital funds and paying them back handsomely |
| 20 | If ( 15 ) and ( 17 ) provide only weak and uncertain support for the " emphasis " solution , the cases in ( 18 ) count as very strong evidence against it ; in ( 18 ) no amount of determination to treat the adjectives as emphatic permits them to become postnominal : ( 18 ) a child intelligent could do that in five minutes the juggler skilful wanted a pay raise cranes squeaky were soon unloading the cargo Some further explanation is therefore clearly needed . |
| 21 | I 've got me 'ands full wiv servin' an' lookin' after Rachel — that 's besides runnin' the 'ome . |
| 22 | That 's further compounding the maintenance burden on the I T department or the information systems provider . |
| 23 | They had it righted and the Number-One was again adjusting the aim . |
| 24 | He moved his hand and gently touched one of hers that was tightly gripping the steering-wheel . |
| 25 | We 've had the rebellion and the lingerie but that was only priming the pump , giving the public what it wants . |
| 26 | Thousands are still facing the burden of a 20 per cent . |
| 27 | Our two eight foot steel cutters , Vigilant and Valiant were now nearing the end of their useful life and were not really fast enough for our purposes . |
| 28 | Unix System Labs Inc is currently evaluating the Architecture Neutral Distribution Format work done by the UK 's Defence Research Agency , according to marketing vice president Joe Menard . |
| 29 | Apple Computer Inc is now shipping the beta test version of QuickDraw GX software to some 15,000 Developer Programme members worldwide . |