Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] and [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vitamin A has two main effects on the immune system — enhancement of non-specific immunity by maintaining the physical and biological integrity of epithelial tissue as the first barrier to infection , and increasing the effectiveness of the immune response to infection once the epithelial barrier has been breached . |
| 2 | This lays down a general statutory objective of making provision for new or better ways of providing legal services and a wider choice of person providing them , while maintaining the proper and efficient administration of justice . |
| 3 | The information and recommendations contained in the report provide an excellent basis for building the flexible and responsive approach in relation to Europe which will be required over the next few years . |
| 4 | The dots touching the upper and left side borders of each subarea were counted while those on the lower and right side were ignored . |
| 5 | Cellular Inc of Englewood , and TVX Inc , Broomfield , both Colorado came together in Dallas yesterday to introduce a means of transmitting video images from a miniature camera to a personal computer using the cellular and terrestrial phone network . |
| 6 | Once you have explored the first match — which you can do using the left and right arrow keys , press the Down arrow to find the next record ( pressing the up arrow goes to the previous record ) . |
| 7 | He had also put forward basic structural ideas about the monosaccharides , suggesting the five and six-membered ring structures , furanosides and pyranosides which are still sometimes referred to as Haworth formulae and appear in every organic chemistry text today . |
| 8 | The cost of policing the Labour and Conservative party conferences this year were £4,000 and £1 million . |
| 9 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 10 | TALKS aimed at settling the ‘ dirty tricks ’ dispute between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic collapsed in London yesterday bringing the long and bitter row to a new low . |
| 11 | About 300 reporters and editors issued a joint communiqué on May 13 , 1990 , demanding the immediate and unconditional abrogation of a law governing the Thai press known as Decree No. 42 . |
| 12 | Thatcher ) , who has succeeded in abandoning her resistance to German blandishments and has formed a common front with Chancellor Kohl in demanding the immediate and unconditional recognition of Croatia . |
| 13 | In 1963 he turned to the theatre , directing Titus Andronicus and other plays at the Birmigham Rep , and showing himself adept at producing the intimate and affable atmosphere of the small screen on stage . |
| 14 | While the 1988 Act requires a greater involvement of governors in such matters , the head 's role in shaping the professional and educational culture remains critical , and certainly this was the expectation during the period of PNP . |
| 15 | But more interestingly for our purposes , they poured scorn upon the primitive church , seeing the dramatic and mythological story of redemption as crude , unsatisfactory , and even immoral ! |
| 16 | The ‘ social ’ factors of which Millett writes are here seen as pressures which are ‘ external ’ to the self , and which have the effect of thwarting the conscious and unitary rationality of female individuality , or the female ego . |
| 17 | In this review we have charted the substantial progress which has been made in understanding the cellular and molecular basis of NMDA receptor-dependent LTP in the hippocampus . |
| 18 | This meant a ban on all unauthorized rallies , marches and ballots , and greater legal supervision of registered public organizations such as the nationalist Moldavian Popular Front and rival groups representing the Russian and other minority populations in the republic . |
| 19 | Moldavia 's Supreme Soviet adopted a sovereignty declaration on June 23 , but in the absence of deputies representing the Russian and other minority communities , who had walked out following a stormy debate on the issue . |
| 20 | As the history of Shakespeare criticism has shown , Lady Anne has all too often been seen either as a particularly silly person or as representing the weak and malleable sex . |
| 21 | It is an action plan for the immediate future , representing the operational and tactical end of the corporate planning chain . |
| 22 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 23 | The Council for the Protection of Rural Wales is a voluntary body established 60 years ago with the expressed purpose of protecting the natural and man-made beauty of rural Wales . |
| 24 | ‘ Protecting the physical and mental development of children is the most important of all investments in the social and economic development of our societies . ’ |
| 25 | In challenging the structural and cultural marginalization of Britain 's black minority communities , they also began to shift the terms around which British national identities had sedimented over the years of colonial domination and imperial grandeur and before . |
| 26 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 27 | Opening the fourth and final day 's debate on the budget , Mr Heseltine flatly denied that he and Mr Lamont had fallen out over the VAT rise . |
| 28 | Rather than providing a survey of English Literature , the ten units are aimed to guide students towards acquiring the linguistic and critical awareness which will enable them to read for pleasure , discuss and write about literature . |
| 29 | In March Jim was the beaten finalist at the Amor Open in Holland after defeating the Russian and Dutch No 1 's , ranked 12th and 14th in the world . |
| 30 | Commercial advertising , for Pear 's soap , bleach and disinfectant , addressing women as consumers and domestic labourers , intensified the focus on home health and cleanliness in keeping the moral and physical threat of disease at bay . |