Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any farmer worth his salt knows that quality can only be achieved by pursuing the higher standards of welfare . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 3 | The blue eyes were cold and watchful as he lounged casually in front of her , the thin sea island cotton shirt allowing the darker hairs on his chest to show through . |
| 4 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 5 | For instance , if loan stock is issued with warrants when profits and share prices are rising , the exercise of the warrants will introduce further equity funds into the company whilst maintaining the higher gearing which the loan stock provides ( as distinct from convertible loan stock which has the effect of withdrawing the cheaper gearing on conversion into equity ) . |
| 6 | Then there was the problem of recovering the larger portions of wreckage , chiefly from the tail areas and rear fuselage of the aircraft . |
| 7 | Later neolithic houses were normally built on a stone footing and this system — building the lower part of the walls of stone , the upper part of mudbrick — became standard in the bronze age . |
| 8 | At the time of writing we have had two productive days clearing the front of the Horderley station platform and building the lower courses of the new facing wall . |
| 9 | That will be the first step towards building the wider Europe for which Britain has long argued . |
| 10 | The effect of this accounting on a stepped interest bond is that the overall effective interest cost will be charged in each accounting period : an accrual will be made in addition to the cash payments in earlier periods and will reverse , partially offsetting the higher cash payments , in later periods . |
| 11 | When knitting the water-lily pattern as an all-over design , I actually like black as the background and white or a pastel colour for the contrast , using the paler colour for the welts and details , as illustrated . |
| 12 | I can only stress again the importance of using the higher figures . ’ |
| 13 | Using the wider kin group as the basis for organizing social and economic life may not be characteristic of contemporary Britain , but some of the groups who have migrated to this country since the Second World War have brought with them , and retained , a pattern of kin relationships which differs from the white British norm and which in some cases includes a preference for cousin marriage . |
| 14 | Although the cultural background is different , a similar pattern of using the wider kin network for mutual aid has operated in earlier migrations , for example migration from rural Lancashire into the growing industrial towns in the early nineteenth century ( Anderson , 1971 ) , or Irish migration to America and elsewhere ( Arensberg and Kimball , 1968 ) . |
| 15 | Things get even worse using the simpler network benchmarks found in both the Norton and PC Tools 8 Sys Info programs : the Kamco lagged even further behind the other two servers we looked at . |
| 16 | Put the curlers in , using the larger size at the front and at the crown . |
| 17 | When it did become available , it was possible to repeat some of the earlier investigations with the CED and OALD using the larger sample size that was recommended , and to include the LDOCE as a further choice of dictionary . |
| 18 | While the exercises in this book are quite small and it is possible to get around using the simple cursor movements alone , you should practise using the faster ones because in longer documents you will need to be able to use all the short cuts you can . |
| 19 | A question which is often asked is , ‘ Are there any risks involved in using the quicker procedure of submitting a Building Notice rather than depositing full plans ? ’ |
| 20 | At first , no doubt , it was in the nature of an exercise just to see if he could still write : he was working very closely to the structure of " Burnt Norton " and seemed to be using the earlier poem as a model from which to draw inspiration . |
| 21 | Rabbani , he said , had violated the Peshawar Accord by using the smaller Leadership Council [ see p. 38915 ] , made up of mujaheddin leaders , as a personal power base . |
| 22 | Made some fatuous comment about using the smaller car . |
| 23 | However , the z-score for the newly indexed definitions ( using the longer lexicon ) is almost double that of the earlier version . |
| 24 | Using the broader measure of the proportion of the population living in a household headed by a NCWP-born person , the South East headed the regional averages in 1981 , closely followed by the West Midlands region , but again the main contrasts are more local in nature . |
| 25 | His mouth moved hungrily , devouring hers , his tongue darting , flickering , suggesting the deeper intimacy to come . |
| 26 | The criminogenic nature of the social system , as it was described , was that honest labour was rewarded only with poverty-level wages and filthy cellar homes , while the ruling class indulged itself in idle luxury ‘ enshrined in palaces , furnished in a style of Oriental splendour ’ , thus encouraging the lower orders to improvise their own short-cut to the universal aspiration of acquisition : |
| 27 | The mayor of Tamworth was there to officiate the opening of the facilities , and was encouraging the younger generation to help the environment by recycling . |
| 28 | Lee hoped to minimize the electoral consequences of this by encouraging the older members to retire , but with limited success . |
| 29 | Later in the report local authorities are enjoined to ‘ maximise choice and competition by encouraging the further development of private services ’ . |
| 30 | If we accept Massey 's ( 1984a ) argument regarding ‘ layers of investment ’ as the mechanism through which places are constantly being remade , then we are similarly accepting the longer-lived view of the landscape as a palimpsest , a parchment on which several ( perhaps many ) layers of human occupance have been laid , with the nature of each layer influencing that of the next . |