Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of this house will recall that this matter was raised er in relation to an amendment er at committee stage and we argued during the committee stage of the bill that it was not feasible for an entirely new electoral system to be set up for the European elections in June nineteen ninety four and that it was er silly to apply a different system for the additional six seats to that applying to the other eighty one . |
| 2 | This implies splitting up the data for each time period ( each day , say ) , into that relating to the individual outstanding futures contracts . |
| 3 | Now if we look forward through time we see regular bands like this occurring through the mid sixteen hundred to sixteen forty , on up into sixteen sixty sixteen eighty still broad regular bands , conditions very conducive to coral growth , and in the early seventeen hundreds on up into the mid seventeen hundreds one can see a remarkable change in the character of the growth bands . |
| 4 | Interiors are light owing to the large clerestory and aisle windows . |
| 5 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 6 | In countries like Colombia and Venezuela , there has been some tinkering with the traditional agrarian system , but on the other hand , Cuba has experienced a complete restructuring of the agrarian sector . |
| 7 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 8 | Infant mortality rates are rising rapidly , reaching 17.9 per 1,000 births in 1991 according to the Russian statistical classification , although the report states that if international standards were applied the figure could be three times this level . |
| 9 | There 's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we 've put our best designers to work on our range . |
| 10 | Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million . |
| 11 | In 1870 the ninety serving in the French foreign ministry , for example , were dwarfed by the 1,500 employed in the ministry of finance , the largest of all French central government departments . |
| 12 | Within the ancient royal estates ( and later hundreds ) of Cannington and North Petherton , a large holding had been assembled by 1066 belonging to the Saxon Alfwy . |
| 13 | From the first cravenly petit-bourgeois Embassy all those years ago , to the predictable monogrammed-slippers appeal of Balkan Sobranie , via the posturings of menthol and the hideous austerity of low-tar , through the Rive Gauche authenticity of fat-thumbed hand-rolling ( with or without aromatic additions ) and its brusque mechanical equivalent ( those Stakhanovite mangles , that floppy deck-chair of rubber I could never quite subdue ) , all leading to the current confident plateau , the équilibré intake of Gauloise and Winston , alloyed occasionally by the fierce kick-start of a little Swedish number named after hoi polloi 's Alsatian , Prince . |
| 14 | The problem is that a good gimmick is contagious — everyone in Hollywood gets it all at once , and then you get a rash of movies all suffering from the same big idea . |
| 15 | Pickups are two EX humbuckers and a single coil , all running through the customary five-position switch with single volume and tone controls . |
| 16 | Alan Irwin captains the side and he will have Robert Glenn , Brian Faith , Taff Watson and George Neilly all fighting for the other two berths in the back row . |
| 17 | The effect of the war can be seen under five heads , all following from the actual European conflict : the running of the war effort ; the advance of Labour ; the advent of democracy in 1918 ; the effect of war on the party structure and organization ; and the effect of war on popular attitudes . |
| 18 | Although all separate entities , they do co-operate with each other as , naturally , they are all working towards the same ideal . |
| 19 | This means that when they watch another group 's work they are affected by what they do , they 're all working within the same fictional context . |
| 20 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 21 | The aim of our study is to identify among subjects treated using the same endoscopic protocol — that is , urgent sclerotherapy , those dying within the first six weeks of their first variceal haemorrhage . |
| 22 | The problems with such an approach can be divided broadly into two : those relating to the nature of RB provision per se ; and those relating to the underlying educational perspectives of the liberal tradition itself . |
| 23 | In our study , all strictures appearing in the first decade and 82% of those appearing in the first two decades of disease were benign , while most ( 61% ) arising after 20 years or more were malignant . |
| 24 | A more valid comparison would be between Black and White arrest rates of those living in the same small areas , because their living circumstances are more likely to be similar , as is their policing . |
| 25 | Comparisons between the three race groups were between those living in the same small areas i.e. in roughly the same circumstances , rather than over a whole city or London borough . |
| 26 | Those waiting for the other light operas depicted on the new stamps , will have to wait a little longer to see them staged . |
| 27 | This was important to her as she was self-supporting and had found it tough going in the last two years . |
| 28 | A Boeing 707 belonging to the Colombian national airline Avianca crashed on Long Island , New York , on Jan. 25 , during a second attempt to land at the city 's John F. Kennedy airport , causing the death of 67 people and injuring some 80 of the remaining 91 people on board . |
| 29 | Some Christians , notably those belonging to the Roman Catholic tradition , receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation , popularly called ‘ Confession ’ . |
| 30 | In other words , a large proportion of the elderly receiving supplementary benefit are elderly women living alone and apart from those belonging to the very top socio-economic group , such women may be in receipt of supplementary benefit irrespective of the socio economic background of themselves or their deceased husbands . |