Example sentences of "[det] [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This implies splitting up the data for each time period ( each day , say ) , into that relating to the individual outstanding futures contracts . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There 's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we 've put our best designers to work on our range . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pickups are two EX humbuckers and a single coil , all running through the customary five-position switch with single volume and tone controls . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although all separate entities , they do co-operate with each other as , naturally , they are all working towards the same ideal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Those waiting for the other light operas depicted on the new stamps , will have to wait a little longer to see them staged . |
| 15 | Some Christians , notably those belonging to the Roman Catholic tradition , receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation , popularly called ‘ Confession ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thirdly , however , it is likely that the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ will have operated amongst the middle class , the working class employed in the new expanding consumer industries , and those migrating from the old industrial areas to the South East and the Midlands . |
| 18 | Among those missing from the first Grand Slam event of the year are Andre Agassi and Jimmy Connors , who has not played the Australian Open for more than a decade . |
| 19 | In contrast with the SDPJ , the three smaller opposition parties each lost seats , with the JCP and the DSP each falling below the 20-seat minimum threshold required for a party to propose legislation in the lower house . |
| 20 | The reason for this can be traced historically to the fact that research on creativity in academic psychology has formed a quite separate strand of enquiry from that originating in the early pathographic analyses carried out by medical writers . |
| 21 | Or could it also be to do with conflicting concepts of femininity , both competing in the specific historical arena of élite European culture ? |
| 22 | ‘ We need a strong system of local government capable of both planning at the wider geographical level and of acting sensitively and accountably at the most local level , ’ he said . |