Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Projecting and protecting British interests overseas . |
| 2 | But at another level , if we could show love , respect and acceptance for each other in the magnificent diversity that that we show as women , instead of patronising and attacking each other on the basis of our body shapes , that would be a great step forward ! |
| 3 | Both submarines were nuclear powered and carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | The aim is to make something people can instantly get excited about but which also stands up to close analysis in terms of being musically interesting and having some kind of content and meaning … ’ |
| 5 | Following the Pliatzky Committee 's report , the ISBA published a very practical guide for its members , describing the process of making a commercial and detailing much of what is involved . |
| 6 | Fig 3 Beginner 's sail : easy to uphaul , light and offering good control in light winds . |
| 7 | BRITAIN 'S economic and financial crisis is grave and growing graver by the hour . |
| 8 | It 's being tackled from three angles : more efficient burning to reduce output at source , exhaust after-treatment and devising cleaner fuel . |
| 9 | Although the sun was shining brightly , the wind was distinctly fresh and getting stronger . |
| 10 | A perfect way to keep you feeling fresh and looking good , Femfresh are also dermatologically tested and gynaecologically approved . |
| 11 | This funny and moving new play was the winner of the 1990 London Weekend Television plays on stage award . |
| 12 | Stunningly visual and full of rich language , Sue Glover 's funny and moving new play follows six women as they laugh and work , flirt and fight their way through a long hard year on the farm . |
| 13 | The all-important top soil quickly disappears , and leaches into the rivers , making the water muddy brown and scuppering any chance of a new forest growing up . |
| 14 | ‘ With a forlorn expression , a pansy voice and a surprisingly athletic body Mr Crawford makes a real joy of his role , tumbling about , doing everything wrong and getting 99 per cent of the laughs . ’ |
| 15 | Headlines in a US paper saying the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves . |
| 16 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 17 | All of us are very good at blaming ourselves if things go wrong and feeling upset , but we must be fair with ourselves and take the credit when things go well . |
| 18 | In humid tropical environments , where organic activity is very high and leaching intense , we would expect silica to be removed in solution as silicic acid : |
| 19 | There are goods in the stores , but prices are high and getting higher , as is unemployment . |
| 20 | Five feet high and weighing one hundred and seventy pounds , a veritable Humpty Dumpty of a woman , Mrs Stych had no hope of ever being able to wear pants gracefully . |
| 21 | This is bad news for Littlewoods since turnover among agents tends to be high and recruiting new ones costs the same ( about 50 ) irrespective of the amount of business they bring . |
| 22 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 23 | Rents are already high and going higher . |
| 24 | Erm , I think it 's probably inevitable but most of the Republics will become independent , but I think the idea of them becoming independent in their present borders is very worrying indeed cos that , most of the borders are grossly irrational and becoming independent with those borders ethnic conflicts built into it , erm , and I think unless there 's some sort of er negotiations about what border these countries will have before they become inde independent , we could see quite a lot of bloodshed . |
| 25 | For a start , the actors all play many different roles , shedding old and assuming new parts with bewildering speed and ease : sometimes indeed they play several different roles at the same time , representing different things in different relationships . |
| 26 | They spent a year painting designs on the walls , finding new designer furniture to replace the old and making modest alterations like removing doors to create space and light . |
| 27 | Such pressure is often regarded as improper and undermining editorial sovereignty and responsibility ; undermining , in other words , ‘ press freedom ’ . |
| 28 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |
| 29 | The performances are conducted by the Brazilian Roberto Duarte ; it sounds as if he knows his jungle , too , for his interpretations are full of life , pointed rhythms , striding basses ( Villa-lobos has in common with Havergal Brian that his textures often inhabit the bottom end of the orchestra , with free and easymoving bass lines ) . |
| 30 | Chatam will join stablemates Run For Free and Rushing Wild in the Gold Cup line-up next month . |