Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 2 | He went to the 1928 Olympics , equalling the 100 yards record in the semi-final . |
| 3 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 4 | Frequently , too , such people have been blessed with the ‘ sixth sense ’ , their quiet mind automatically transmitting the hungry intentions of a hidden tiger for example , for all creatures are linked at the level of the mind , as well as soul . |
| 5 | First , there is the problem of transmitting the huge volumes of data and managing it on its way through a network to users . |
| 6 | Earnings analysis is concerned with forecasting the future earnings patterns of firms . |
| 7 | Second , there is the issue of what is to happen to Lord Denning 's tidal wave of European law , crashing the national barriers and submerging the legal and constitutional independence of the nation state . |
| 8 | In the latter case , however , the commissioners give consideration because they refrain from pursuing the threatened proceedings . |
| 9 | [ I intend pursuing the other objectives this Autumn . ] |
| 10 | We will be making regular reports to the AEA Audit Committee in the interim and vigorously pursuing the remaining actions as an integral part of our strategy for commercial success . ’ |
| 11 | John Horam , of Fulham , a former Labour minister , believed the Chancellor was pursuing the right policies . ’ |
| 12 | Probably the incident to receive the greatest publicity , at least in Britain , involved the shooting-up of two British Warrior armoured personnel carriers by an American A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft while all three were pursuing the retreating Iraqis , resulting in nine British infantrymen being killed . |
| 13 | ‘ Any farmer worth his salt knows that quality can only be achieved by pursuing the higher standards of welfare . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It appears to me therefore that if a man diligently followed this desire , pursuing the false objects until their falsity appeared and then resolutely abandoning them , he must come out at last into the clear knowledge that the human soul was made to enjoy some object that is never fully given — nay , can not even be imagined as given — in our present mode of subjective and spatio-temporal experience . |
| 16 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 17 | The problem throughout is to identify what motivates financial participants to choose one option rather than another in pursuing the basic aims of any corporate system : to create wealth and to keep on doing so . |
| 18 | The difference between these two sections is that the former is supposed to show you where you should start pursuing the main themes of the chapter . |
| 19 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 20 | A simple reason why the younger activists are not seen as often on the picket line as their elders were , is that they are too busy pursuing the same goals by other means . |
| 21 | of what needs to be done to en ensure that while pursuing the cultural objectives . |
| 22 | The sages who lay down the law in this party have always said that if Ms Aloni left education , where she was ‘ poisoning the innocent souls of Israel 's children ’ , they could contemplate joining Mr Rabin . |
| 23 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 24 | Each of the 300 occupied a slightly different ecological niche : some living among the rocks inshore ; some in the depths ; all ( as many cichlids do ) holding their developing young in their mouths for protection ( ‘ mouth breeders ’ ) ; and some highly specialized types earning a living by sucking the young ones out of the mouths of brooding mothers . |
| 25 | However , the two state-run foreign-exchange earners , the Suez Canal Authority and the Egyptian General Petroleum Company , continued to be paid at the old Central Bank rate , allowing the extra Epounds 0.40 to be retained in special accounts to subsidize the price of such staple foods as wheat , flour and cooking oil . |
| 26 | The results , presented in Table 2 , show that allowing the extra sources of income to matter ( Model 4 ) produces very different results from Model 1 and Model 5 ( where the extra income is assumed not to matter ) . |
| 27 | There is some precedent for allowing the extra costs of subsistence when working away from home , by virtue of Statement of Practice SP16/80 , which specifically applies to lorry drivers . |
| 28 | The British stumble after the Americans trying to copy their technology but waste their limited resources because their agencies are run by an amateurish elite who are too highly politicised and target the wrong enemies , allowing the real spies to go free . |
| 29 | It also contained a North Korean promise to release the fishermen within a month , and a commitment to consider allowing the Japanese wives of North Korean citizens to make visits to their homeland . |
| 30 | The Foreign Minister , Enrique Dreyfus , who had discussed the matter with President Cristiani of El Salvador , was among those who held Ortega responsible , pointing out on Jan. 4 that Nicaragua had violated international agreements by allowing the Soviet missiles to be used by third parties without authorization . |