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 | There was to be no self-dramatisation and nothing that would set Amnesty International apart from the very people that it was seeking to protect from the same potential threat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Overall , however , our studies showed schools tending to cluster towards the following main types : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | we are going to get from the three national executives erm a list of what the contributions are going to be . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The fact is no-one knows what 's going to happen in the two new Milton Keynes constituencies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1950 there were 174 000 students at the universities just beginning to emerge from the painful post-war reconstructions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At least a little more flexibility was beginning to emanate from the British Foreign Office over the question of the Suez base . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Instead of having to go through the hoary old DOS prompt when you boot up , you 'll go straight into Windows . |
| 24 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 25 | Do n't you contribute to this picture of Dudley Moore by continuing to talk about the same old things ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She saw two little girls , nicely dressed , running up the steps to the nearest house , starting to beat at the paint-scraped wooden door . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The institute is responding to concern about the wider social and medical consequences of the project by establishing an ethics division , and by releasing groups of its gene sequences for general research use . |