Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hoped for recovery in the UK economy in 1992 failed to materialise , but the last few months have seen several actions by the Government intended to prevent 1993 becoming the third consecutive year of recession . |
| 2 | I felt that there was such an understanding of Italian art by the British spanning the last three or four hundred years . |
| 3 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 4 | Following a resolution taken at a conference of the Council of Museums , celebrations will take place in 1995 marking the 2,500th anniversary of one of the oldest Eastern cities in the world , Bukhara in Uzbekistan . |
| 5 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 6 | He will forsake china production schedules for fine tuning the first of many travel itineraries planned for ‘ my new career of retirement ’ , as he put it . |
| 7 | With the academic year 1992/93 seeing the first full year of modularised courses at Napier , it was seen as an appropriate time to examine undergraduate , postgraduate , and HND courses in relation to the inclusion of enterprise/ transferable skills in course descriptors . |
| 8 | The system design was submitted to Nuclear Electric in December 1992 satisfying the first key date . |
| 9 | A disguised car 4 heading the 75th Anniversary procession in 1960 . |
| 10 | Scientists , especially theoretical physicists , are all awaiting the next revolutionary breakthrough that overthrows the paradigms of theory and practice . |
| 11 | HIT THE NORTH , a celebration of Scandinavian bands , takes place at London 's Marquee with Eggstone , Poverty Stinks and Sharing Patrol playing the first night and Bel Canto , SS Sol and Inferno 5 playing the second night . |
| 12 | A ceremony on Oct. 5 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis at Babi Yar near Kiev was attended by Jewish , German and US delegations . |
| 13 | There is , therefore , little tradition yet of using even the growing numbers of full text CD-ROM databases let alone those embodying the first elements of multimedia . |
| 14 | I 'd be happy going the fourteenth of February . |
| 15 | Twelve hundred words a week , week in , week out , at a rate something in excess of £1 per word — well , not too bad a life , actually , would be the most likely response of those facing the 14th , 15th , 16th … years of Conservative rule in rather more straitened circumstances — if , of course , they were to read his column . |
| 16 | Fifty-nine heads of state and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali were among those attending the 10th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) on Sept. 1-6 in Jakarta , presided over by Indonesian President Gen. Suharto . |
| 17 | Note that a filter element such as |<>TOP*&&<>CONF*| will allow all modules to be hard copied , as all those failing the first filter will satisfy the second . |
| 18 | For those surviving the first year of life , however , the chances were improving ; death-rate fell from 23 per 1,000 ( living ) in 1841 to 18 per 1,000 in 1901 . |
| 19 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 20 | Part one featuring the first four days of the route is on page 18 and we 'll be publishing parts two and three in our August and September issues , so September might be a good time to do the whole thing — if you can wait that long . |
| 21 | A. B. Chalmers of Inverness started out like the shopkeepers in Inveraray with a delivery barrow , graduating to a pony and trap for outlying districts and in 1907 introducing the first steam lorry to the Highlands . |
| 22 | The route has now taken a bit of hammering with a Yugoslav bagging the third ascent and Sean Myles and Andy Pollitt steaming in for the fourth and fifth ascents soon afterwards . |
| 23 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 24 | There were two daughters of the marriage , the elder , Irene , in 1906 becoming the first woman in London to be arrested in the cause of militant feminism . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may adjourn any meeting held by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above from time to time during the period of one month next following the first day of such meeting , but no longer . |