Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by qualifying for either the English Tourist Board crown grading and quality scheme , or one of the other nationally recognised quality schemes , can establishments be singles out with the relevant symbol and this is the result of independent , objective assessment by trained inspectors , not as a result of decisions by council staff . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't understand why they pose for the tourists , ’ she said , marvelling at how the huge hoods were wired to flare out in soft folds around each tightly wrapped skull . |
| 3 | Others see it occurring at exactly the same time each day , but with no obvious connection with any other activity . |
| 4 | Besides having this example of baronial efficiency before his eyes , common sense might have suggested the importance of revealing at once the new conditions for ecclesiastical support which he had brought back from the Roman Council of 1099 . |
| 5 | There is , however , clear evidence of a small ridge of higher 100-μm intensity protruding from below the galactic plane and curving around the southern side of the remnant . |
| 6 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard , writing in both the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph , says that he was ‘ stunned ’ to learn of Rigoberta Menchu 's success . |
| 7 | Elean:Would you say that this ’ technical problem ’ , which is a technical problem for many writers is made worse because you are writing , not from the relatively safe ’ exile ’ of a liberal-democratic , capitalist European country ; but you are writing from inside the very belly of apartheid , where you do not have , at your disposal the support services and facilities , to help you to authentically reflect the true ’ spirit ’ of your people . |
| 8 | What is it really like , writing from inside the very belly of apartheid ? ' |
| 9 | In the pyramid of control , according to both the formal theory and the practical application of it in organizational design , authority would reside in individuals by virtue of their incumbency in office and/or their expertise . |
| 10 | The hope cherished by the NIH team is that recombinant vaccinia viruses may be used to combat hepatitis B virus in Africa and Asia according to exactly the same strategy that succeeded so brilliantly with smallpox . |
| 11 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 12 | ‘ If Cllr Murphy is aware of any specific incidence of malpractice or wrongdoing , he should detail the same in writing to either the chief executive or the independent consultants appointed to look into this matter , ’ she said . |
| 13 | On the other hand , such bodies are , of course , acting to further the public interest , and it has not always proved easy to strike the right balance between independence and public accountability . |
| 14 | Living at just the right distance from things is impossible cos one had to move about in order to know where one is — the principle of 2 or more radar points plotting the position of an object . |
| 15 | She thought she was peaking at just the right time for her battle of the sexes match with Jimmy Connors scheduled for Las Vegas on September 24 with a 500,000 dollar first prize . |
| 16 | is that tomorrow , when we start getting into planning , prioritizing , looking at where the new diaries and all that sort of stuff . |
| 17 | Two people looking at exactly the same thing may have quite different perceptions depending on experience , background and interest . |
| 18 | Comparison of the patterns of demographic change suggested by the overall and gerontic ratio illustrates the importance of looking at both the total population and its component segments . |
| 19 | We begin therefore by considering our current practice , and then looking at how the National Curriculum fits in . |
| 20 | These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century . |
| 21 | In corporate finance you may get a call at 4pm and have to prepare papers for a crucial business meeting at 9am the next morning . |
| 22 | Authorisation is in the hands of the Department of Trade and Industry and depends upon a trust 's deed meeting at least the following conditions : |
| 23 | Yet they remained , practically and culturally , a fractional formation , and this can be seen especially with the advantage of hindsight , since it is now evident that they were expressing at once the highest values of the bourgeois tradition and the necessary next phase of a bourgeois social and cultural order . |
| 24 | ‘ It was n't easy paying for both the new carpet and the runabout . ’ |
| 25 | The world mile record holder , racing for only the second time since recovering from the groin injury which threatened to ruin his Olympic hopes , ran the third stage for Britain in the 4 x 1500 metres relay . |
| 26 | We denote all the terms in the square bracket as A s , which are the same for every unit cell , and sum all the scattered waves illuminated by the incident plane wave within the probe coherence area , containing N 2 unit cells , to give The first two summations are the structure factor , which amount to constant coefficients in the LEED I-V spectra , leading to Thus the main effect of long-range order , as distinct from short-range order , is to produce intensity at Bragg beam positions ; it does not influence the I-V dependence at a given Bragg beam position . |
| 27 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 28 | Felling at precisely the right time , possibly a tall order for the commission , the UK 's largest timber producer with 900,000 hectares of forest valued at £2.8 billion , could add 15 per cent to timber value , according to the audit office . |
| 29 | According to preliminary UN estimates , the total food aid requirement for the region came to 3,800,000 tonnes , the highest estimate ever made , surpassing by far the average requirement of 1,400,000 tonnes in each of the three years 1987 , 1988 and 1989 . |
| 30 | There is no better example of the uncontrollable exercise of state power , resulting in perhaps the worst invasion of individual autonomy imaginable , than the decision to use nuclear weapons ; and the aftermath of their use reveals the uncontrolled assumption by the state of virtually limitless emergency powers leading to the forced starvation of some of the population and the summary execution of others ( as depicted for example in BBC 's ‘ Threads ’ ) ( Campbell , 1985 ; Laurie , 1983 ) . |