Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] the [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 | ‘ I think it 's time we stopped poisoning half the land and concreting in the rest . ’ |
| 4 | However when using this the circuit was prone to electrostatic hum pickup . |
| 5 | Between 1941 and 1947 , Rank 's companies were to be responsible for financing half the films made in Britain . |
| 6 | This is why you 're only seeing half the Winchess program . |
| 7 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a certified inmate of Friern Hospital , Iris behaviour stability periodically , keeping alive the hope that time would be the healer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it is in sustaining morale , keeping alive the seed of self-help , rather than providing permanent solutions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | When confronted with the difficult problem of explaining this the diffusionist will try to establish the movement 's place of origin . |
| 18 | ‘ I can not believe you were here , in Roma , while I was employing half the detectives in New York to find you ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I know you 're eliminating yeah and al and also eliminating half the brain cells in the room ! |
| 21 | The intention — set out in Plan for Action — was to increase consultant numbers by 2.8% a year while keeping constant the number of senior registrars and reducing modestly the number of career registrars . |
| 22 | most times keep interfering all the time |
| 23 | What no one , as far as I know , has ever done is to show whether there is any space , weight , efficiency or cost saving that results from assembling all the windings onto one core . |
| 24 | For each proposal a group was given the task assembling all the arguments in favour of the development , while another , the reasons against . |
| 25 | A few children were assembling all the props on a table over by the far wall . |
| 26 | This they call the " balanced slate " , and their insistent message is that whereas under our present system a vote for a party is a vote for just one candidate regardless of his precise political stance , the operation of the STV would allow a party , or rather oblige it , to put up a spread of candidates embracing and representing all the factions it supposedly includes . |
| 27 | David is the officials ’ representative , representing all the grades 8 to 10 in Glasgow , as well as the regional auditors and the regional marketing controllers . |
| 28 | A coach departed from Leeds at 8.15pm with parties representing all the constituencies in Leeds plus a party from Shipley and another from Bradford . |
| 29 | With BCM delegates reserving their position , the remaining delegates adopted the Harare declaration and further resolved to call for a ‘ constituent assembly , established on a non-racial basis and representing all the people of South Africa , to draw up a new constitution for our country ’ . |
| 30 | A young man stops his pick-up and calls me over , laughing all the while . |