Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parish representatives will have the opportunity to discuss with the Agencies of their choice the forms of support which they need to have in their task of bringing alive the mission statement of each parish . |
| 2 | These conceded Indian representation on an elective basis in both the central and provincial councils of government , while maintaining intact the principle of the irresponsible executive . |
| 3 | Now , if everyone had an average-sized lawn which they cut weekly for eight months using half a litre of petrol at each session , they would still burn less than 4 gallons a year . |
| 4 | At certain times of the month and whatever , I could be using half a gram a day and towards the end of the month whatever money I had left went on It . |
| 5 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 6 | This , as any British climbers knows , involved quaffing gallons of warm beer the night before , eating half a pig and the produce of a hen house the next morning , then spraying the countryside with this heady mixture while approaching the crag . |
| 7 | When I met Mike , he strolled into the office and apologised for bringing half a farm yard with him . |
| 8 | Anything , Richard thought , would be better than sawing half a man 's chest away . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 10 | However when using this the circuit was prone to electrostatic hum pickup . |
| 11 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 12 | This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program . |
| 13 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 14 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 15 | The latest , which has now been introduced on a voluntary basis , is that , instead of one of his A levels , a pupil may take two AS ( supplementary ) level examinations , demanding half the time each of a full A level . |
| 16 | And every day Allan and Barbara and the doctors treating him have to face the dilemma of keeping alive the boy they feel would be better off dead . |
| 17 | As a certified inmate of Friern Hospital , Iris behaviour stability periodically , keeping alive the hope that time would be the healer . |
| 18 | The Orthodox Church had played a more important role in keeping alive the culture of the exiled Serbs in Catholic Austria than had the Greek-speaking hierarchy of the Orthodox communities in the Ottoman empire . |
| 19 | Visit the Ironbridge Gorge , cradle of the World 's Industrial Revolution and The Black Country Museum at Dudley , working museums keeping alive the skills and industries of the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 20 | Middlesbrough 's Mayor Eddie Bolland was on board the 3,200ton ship , keeping alive the links which begun in 1975 until the last possible minute . |
| 21 | It does suggest that teachers corporately have a responsibility to assist in keeping alive the research tradition , but that there is also only a minimal obligation on individuals to participate in the research enterprise . |
| 22 | But it is in sustaining morale , keeping alive the seed of self-help , rather than providing permanent solutions . |
| 23 | Renamo was said to have proposed an army of 24,000 soldiers , with a further 1,000-strong air force and 800-strong navy , with each side contributing half the force . |
| 24 | This was all happening half a century ago , before the invention of the aqualung . |
| 25 | He found another Brahmin cultivating half an acre of land which Ragu had laid claim to and beat the man up with a stick , causing arm fracture , hospitalization and a court case . |
| 26 | When confronted with the difficult problem of explaining this the diffusionist will try to establish the movement 's place of origin . |
| 27 | ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’ |
| 28 | Representing half a mile of coastline , its 72 paddles can produce waves and set up currents and tides for scientists to study . |
| 29 | During the 1970s for example , this proportion was around 19 per cent for manufacturing firms representing half the West German and about one third of UK or US levels . |
| 30 | I know you 're eliminating yeah and al and also eliminating half the brain cells in the room ! |