Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A very rudimentary knowledge of detective fiction tells you that any photographic blackmailer worth his salt keeps producing copies of the incriminating material until he 's blue in the face .
2 This offer failed to impress GFT and , having taken some informal advice from their company solicitors on winding-up procedures , instructed the local firm of Sam Sword and Spade , debt collectors , to serve a formal notice demanding payment of the outstanding £1250 ( see below ) .
3 The carer may be under too much stress , both physically and mentally , to cope with paperwork relating to such matters as the patient 's sick pay from work , relevant insurance claims , or simply organizing payment of the normal household bills .
4 We checked the assumption of proportionality by using graphs of the log-log survivor function .
5 In Europe , for example , the removal of temperate forest began more than 5 kyr BP when permanent agricultural systems replaced the hunting and gathering strategies of the mesolithic period ( sections 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 ) ; and has continued ever since , though post-war afforestation policies have redressed the balance to some extent ( section 8.2 ) .
6 And his toe-nails were long and curved , like the horns of a goat , reminding Melanie of the cloven hooves she thought he might have had .
7 I smiled understanding and held on to the last wedge of the broken window , catching glimpses of the brown Yucay River snaking its way between the terraced hills .
8 The ULF decided to follow the " contracting in " system of the Trade Unions , allowing non-members of the Labour Party to remain in the Federation without being able to decide the ULF representation at the Party 's Conferences .
9 Tatiana Rovkatch , 12 , remembers the shock of seeing pictures of the deserted villages around the plant .
10 The plasma gun slewed askew , however , obscuring part of the rusty view .
11 Although we had little notice of the tour , branches were keen to help and the Association will receive £6,628 representing 50% of the total profits .
12 Salvidge of Liverpool was the best-known example , becoming chairman of the National Union in 1913 and often cited as the only party boss on the American model in English politics , but his authority in Liverpool was no greater than that of Sir James Oddy in Bradford or Sir Percy Woodhouse in Manchester .
13 Notably , it proposed that a " clear organic relationship " be established between the Western European Union ( WEU ) and the new political union , with the WEU eventually becoming part of the political union and developing " a common security policy on its behalf " , which would not , however , interfere with existing defence arrangements .
14 The SARU are determined that they shall not be pushed into premature agreement with the other bodies just for the sake of becoming part of the international fold .
15 They were given the choice of becoming part of the maintained system or becoming independent ; most chose the latter .
16 It 's out with the old hairdressers , the cliff-edge guitar posturing , the in-stadium clips of religious fandemonium , and in with pumpingpop bass-lines , strutting down mean urban streets and becoming part of the real world .
17 Sir Leon said the Community should , in effect , support the integration of East Germany into the Federal Republic as a precondition for East German territory becoming part of the European Community .
18 The development of British industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries opened up new avenues for achieving success and becoming part of the upper strata .
19 As I sat there first at EDC [ Economic Development Committee ] and then at Home Affairs , I reflected on the way that Cabinet Committees as well as the Cabinet itself are becoming part of the dignified element of the English constitution .
20 Will my right hon. Friend extend to them his best wishes on becoming part of the property-owning democracy and will he send a message of best wishes to the management and employees of West Midlands Travel — the country 's biggest bus company — who yesterday concluded a £70 million buy-out ?
21 Death en masse was becoming part of the natural order of things .
22 This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War .
23 But does he see himself as becoming part of the theatrical establishment in his middle-age ?
24 ‘ Now information that a school used to retain for its own purposes is becoming part of the public domain .
25 Following a short religious ceremony led by the Dean of Belfast , the Very Rev Jack Shearer , more than 50 crosses representing units of the armed services , civil defence and military associations were planted in the grassy areas in front of the Cenotaph , next to the City Hall .
26 On the other hand , the controlling or checking functions of the judicial branch can only consist in impartial application of the law , and where constitutional law places restrictions on legislative power , a duty to declare the law seems to imply a duty to declare when such restrictions have been violated , whether by the legislature or by anyone else .
27 The United Kingdom in particular regarded the organization as complementary and subsidiary to NATO , and accordingly stressed the strictly peacekeeping functions of the new force .
28 In some unions the emphasis is more upon representing aspirations of the working class as a whole rather than functioning as collective bargaining agencies merely for their own members .
29 Walking south of the Great Wall he met a farm-worker who looked at an illustration of the Wall in Thubron 's tourist map .
30 Katharine was tempted to use too much inside rein to create the bend , and was therefore losing Benji 's shoulder by not keeping hold of the outside rein .
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