Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They held conservative views , some of them very radical in their implications , but they remained realists endeavouring to work within the existing political system . |
| 2 | It quickly became apparent that the BMC Management Committee was antagonistic towards training initiatives and dismissive of the training committee , instead preferring to talk to the external advisory board SACOMT , which contained real climbers and not the self-interested educationalists infesting the training committee . |
| 3 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 4 | ( Hobson 1982 , Ang 1985 , Radway 1984 , Brunsdon 1986 ) Perhaps women have most to gain by refusing to identify with the implied passive reader suggested by the ideological model . |
| 5 | COMPANIES wanting to break into the vast Russian consumer market have been told to cater for five distinct groups with very different tastes : Kuptsi , Cossacks , Students , Businessmen and Russian Souls . |
| 6 | Overall , however , our studies showed schools tending to cluster towards the following main types : |
| 7 | Shoulder to shoulder with the bankers of the City of London , Snowden fought off the attack on economic internationalism , while , with the Cabinet refusing to follow through the full deflationary logic of the Treasury approach to the slump , Britain drifted into financial crisis . |
| 8 | Mm there 's the Bare Naked Ladies er they come from Canada they are a brilliant group I think they 're brilliant I do n't care I like them and that 's called er Be My Yoko Ono I was going to go from the Bare Naked Ladies it was all planned I was going to go and say Mary Whitehouse how are you today and she was there er un unfortunately we 've we called this is serious . |
| 9 | The price wars that have left them bleeding and dying in the personal computer field this year are going to spread to the margin-rich personal computer server , Computer Reseller News predicts . |
| 10 | After the Treaty of Utrecht Britain remained at peace for a generation , declining to join in the only important continental war of the period , the War of the Polish Succession . |
| 11 | The vastly-experienced trio of Francis , Anderson and Waddle — with 105 years and four European Cup finals between them — were beginning to revel in the huge open spaces left by their part-time opponents . |
| 12 | In 1950 there were 174 000 students at the universities just beginning to emerge from the painful post-war reconstructions . |
| 13 | The accreditation , heralded as a major requisite for firms wishing to compete in the new European single market , does not guarantee any improvement in quality performance or customer focus , it is claimed . |
| 14 | The accreditation , heralded as a major requisite for firms wishing to compete in the new European single market , does not guarantee any improvement in quality performance or customer focus , it is claimed . |
| 15 | At least a little more flexibility was beginning to emanate from the British Foreign Office over the question of the Suez base . |
| 16 | British Columbia has announced plans to allow logging to continue in the ancient temperate rainforests of Vancouver Island and Clayoquot Sound , despite growing local and international opposition [ see ED 70 ] . |
| 17 | For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market . |
| 18 | One of the most enduring memories is of the Labour Government having to go to the International Monetary Fund , ‘ cap in hand ’ , to ask for a loan to prop up the UK 's sagging economy . |
| 19 | Instead of having to go through the hoary old DOS prompt when you boot up , you 'll go straight into Windows . |
| 20 | America 's carmakers did much the same in the 1980s by failing to respond to the growing Japanese competition in America 's small-car market . |
| 21 | Nicole Ward Jouve 's story of a French woman coming to live in the cold damp English countryside and her growing disenchantment is funny and telling . |
| 22 | She saw two little girls , nicely dressed , running up the steps to the nearest house , starting to beat at the paint-scraped wooden door . |
| 23 | It was tempting to think that he might live down there for ever , occasionally emerging to dodge through the empty quiet streets ; watching for the armed patrols of the faceless men in black . |
| 24 | Many of the difficulties experienced by users trying to cope with the idiosyncratic Shifting system could be solved through adding extra keys to handle the more commonly occurring characters such as the punctuation , mathematical symbols and Delete . |
| 25 | Since 7 January the 2nd Shock Army , the southernmost element of the Front , had been playing its part in the general Soviet counter-offensive by pushing northwards north-east of Novgorod , trying to pinch off the deep German salient across the Lovat River between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen , and thus to help relieve Leningrad . |
| 26 | I am trying to tease from the right hon. Gentleman what he thinks is the meaning of the new clause that he invites the House to adopt . |
| 27 | A fierce debate arose among those trying to respond to the unfavourable economic and social effects of occupation . |
| 28 | Return to the T-junction and carry straight on , not forgetting to look at the lovely wild flowers on the left bank — a mass of yellow pimpernel and birdsfoot trefoil . |