Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Organizing respectable credit for respectable people became the respectable part of an accountant 's work , whose training enabled him to ensure that it was sound , that is , within the bounds of profitability . |
| 2 | Even quite elderly people , male or female , could often earn something towards their maintenance , while the practice of assisting low-wage earners with large families of young children was widespread . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman would be well advised to pay some regard to the settlement of next year 's budget , and to set arguments for including specific references to social cohesion in the Maastricht treaty in the context of the bargaining that that budget will involve . |
| 4 | It is also possible that in this continuum a tumour increases the amount of large cells and develops higher grades of malignancy transforming low grade into high grade as occurs in nodal counterparts . |
| 5 | It may appear harsh to criticize the Library Association for not pursuing possible cases of professional misconduct and it may seem even harsher to pillory members of the Association for putting personal interests first and professional interests second , but censorship , and being party to censorship . |
| 6 | It turns out that it is possible to reproduce exactly the results of non-relativistic quantum mechanics by attributing definite properties to individual systems . |
| 7 | Those who did not inhabit this universe of discourse had less difficulty in accepting possible discontinuities between different movements or forms of racism . |
| 8 | Cycling is the ideal form of ‘ green tourism ’ , since it brings people into the countryside to enjoy it ( thus also bringing economic benefits to rural communities ) . |
| 9 | Two makeshift goal-posts had been erected using assorted lengths of strapped sugar cane , and she could hear a lively dispute about the penalty rules . |
| 10 | The interplay between semantic and social conditioning factors may then be interpreted as reflecting differential preferences by social groups for certain communicative styles which involve different degrees of assertiveness . |
| 11 | For , at one extreme , we have a description of that unique quality for which the arts , and the arts in education in particular here , are quite properly prized : namely their existence , according to Ross , as ‘ special ways of knowing ’ , in which our ideas and feelings are expressed through an engagement with ‘ sensuous forms ’ using that form of direct symbolization identified by Langer , which , by definition , relies upon non-discursive forms of communication that by their very nature defy translation into words . |
| 12 | Any matrix may be partitioned , by drawing dotted lines between adjacent columns and adjacent rows , into submatrices . |
| 13 | He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town . |
| 14 | Many people expressed alarm at the plans , seeing possible conflicts with flying operations from the Imperial Museum 's airfield . |
| 15 | German car manufacturers are now producing advanced designs at affordable prices . |
| 16 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 17 | ‘ I really do n't like them eating that sort of disgusting junk food , ’ Laura protested . |
| 18 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 19 | Communities may vary in all these respects urban areas producing different responses to rural areas . |
| 20 | The Community has adopted two distinct approaches to maintaining public confidence in cross-border transactions : |
| 21 | Others , reflecting popular frustration with empty shops and official bureaucracy after 72 years of socialism , were harsher . |
| 22 | During his visit Hammadi reportedly attempted to persuade Iran to press SAIRI into accepting some form of power-sharing deal . |
| 23 | Leaving aside here the more extreme version of the theory of elites as expounded by Pareto or by Ortega y Gasset ( 1930 , p. 49 ) in his distinction between the inert masses and ‘ the select men , the nobles , the only ones who are active and not merely reactive ’ , we can identify two types of political theory which , while accepting some aspects of modern democracy , are concerned to limit its significance . |
| 24 | Under the various agreements , Ilo would be developed jointly as a free zone with full industrial and commercial facilities , with Peru allowing free access to Bolivian goods along a route leading to Ilo from the Bolivian border town of Desaguadero . |
| 25 | For a long time , she managed to keep up her little flat herself , maintaining careful arrangements of dried flowers , folding newspapers into tidy piles , even sewing a teddy bear for a local charity raffle . |
| 26 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , emphasised yesterday that opting-out was not an escape route from closure threats , where councils were spending millions of pounds maintaining empty seats in empty classrooms . |
| 27 | What does happen historically is that integrated songs become gradually less common through the course of Elvis 's career , while the song-types tend to diverge , as the relatively small , well-defined audience of the Sun days gives way to a large , heterogeneous market demanding different types for different sub-sections . |
| 28 | On the one side stood Henderson 's commitment to maintaining popular control of economic life . |
| 29 | Leeds is best known as a pioneer in the typological study of artefacts , producing detailed analyses of various brooch types ( 1912 ; 1949 ; 1971 posthumously with M. Pocock ) . |
| 30 | Major record companies , by the very definition of the world ‘ major ’ , are intent on targeting different audiences with specific styles of music . |