Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fear of Cardiff 's rivals is that , without the same resources , they can only lose in a transfer war , and some are looking to the Welsh Rugby Union for legislative salvation . |
| 2 | Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones , carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work . |
| 3 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 4 | I think this is policing on the cheap , and it is something profoundly to be regretted . |
| 5 | This is emerging in the 90s with Post-modernism , particularly the kind of Reconstructive Post-modernism described by Suzi Gablik in her book ‘ the Enchantment of Art ’ . |
| 6 | Consequently there has been a marked fall in recruitment since 1964 — although it is still not enough on its own to create a shortage of labour — and this is contributing to the ageing labour force . |
| 7 | ( And the prospective mothers-in-law must be aware that this is going through the young man 's mind , must n't they ? |
| 8 | I appeal to the Government to think again , this is going down the wrong road , we do not need these appointed , these appointees appointed by the Home Office and they know how it 's done , they know this new method , but there is the list of the greater the good , and if there 's of course there will be a bias one way or the other arising out of the very method by which it is done . |
| 9 | This is playing of the first order . |
| 10 | The fine polish of his technique does not disguise the music 's refinements : this is playing of the utmost subtlety , strength and thoughtful insight . |
| 11 | This is verging on the tragic , because even if there is only a remote chance of these clumps being survivors from prehistoric times , it must be our duty to ensure their continuity . |
| 12 | All this is happening on the main bed , of course . |
| 13 | Bu but basically we are , we are now going for land reform and if the , if th th the momentum from this is coming from the spontaneous actions of the peasants themselves , and if it 's not coming then we 've got ta give them the guidance to move in that direction . |
| 14 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 15 | He has two kinds of Test performance — five for very few , and none for a lot , and this was looking like the latter . |
| 16 | But I knew this was wishing for the impossible . |
| 17 | Déjà vu was one thing , she thought irritably , but this was bordering on the ridiculous ! |
| 18 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 19 | All of this was happening alongside the steady decline of the Luftwaffe which did not enjoy our operational tour scheme and rest periods . |
| 20 | I say this having lived in such a time , and am GLAD that if such is coming upon the FIFTH DOMINION again . |
| 21 | All three are playing in the coca-cola cup this week … here 's the line-up … |
| 22 | It can be argued that controls by Central Government are desirable to ensure that a uniform minimum standard of efficiency is obtained where the taxpayer at large is contributing through the national Exchequer to local services . |
| 23 | Whatever had happened before or was to happen after , it is clear that the population of western Europe at large was growing between the tenth century and the thirteenth . |
| 24 | Although this feat was probably know to McBride , he most likely was responding to the increasing image control evident in a painting like ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ as a radical departure from the work he had encountered when he first began to review her exhibitions in 1923 . |
| 25 | Yes there are similarities in the sense that all are operating in the international environment I mentioned before . |
| 26 | Output is allocated among plants so that all are producing at the lowest point on their average cost curves . |
| 27 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 28 | Though all are feeding from the same source , and to some degree feed on whatever is most plentiful , competition is minimized by selective feeding ; Croxall and Lishman ( 1987 ) and Prince and Morgan ( 1987 ) summarize methods of feeding respectively among penguins and petrels in southern waters . |
| 29 | As a result of this FRG project leaders are able to predict and influence reactions in other departments because all are working to the same well-developed system . |
| 30 | The information about the total amount collected each week can assist people to see that many are responding to the diocesan needs at this time . |