Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injected , catalysed , with 24-valves apiece and an individual coil on each plug to speed the spark , the 2-litre 150bhp and the 2.5-litre 192bhp engines enhance the company 's reputation for building arguably the smoothest ‘ 6 ’ s in the business . |
| 2 | ‘ He had experience in administering effectively a large public museum ; he has demonstrated skills in fund-raising ; and thirdly , we get the bulk of our annual budget from Congress , and Rusty got the bulk of his budget ( $15 million a year ) from the Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles and showed great skill in dealing with them . |
| 3 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 4 | Some see it as reflecting only an odd set of ancient taboos . |
| 5 | ‘ Obediently she did as he bade her , her gaze travelling round the empty room , seeing only the elegant lines of fitted furniture , the newly made bed , the bedside table with one large volume hanging open — and another fallen untidily on the floor beside it . |
| 6 | Thus began the pattern of alternating concession and repression which marked the Indian path to independence , the British constantly frustrated by their inability to rise permanently above the use of force , the nationalists , with the notable exception of Gandhi , seeing only the adroit employment of the carrot and the stick . |
| 7 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 8 | Unsurprisingly , he left after completing only the one film , and his position was taken over by his erstwhile colleague , Victor Saville . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 10 | We have discussed how the requirement for external confidentiality will limit the approach to potential purchasers and the consequential sale strategy which will involve contacting only a small number of potential purchasers , most of which are likely to be foreign companies . |
| 11 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 12 | The race has always been known as le grand boucle , the great belt , a circuit binding together a large and various country whose distant regions — Provence and Picardy , Brittany and Savoy — knew little of each other . |
| 13 | The first is that it increasingly appears that LTP-like phenomena are not restricted to the hippocampus , but can under appropriate circumstances be shown in many other regions of the brain , including especially the cerebral cortex as Lynn Bindman in London , and Lyosha Voronin , in Moscow , have shown . |
| 14 | A pity he could not have read Alec Wilder 's American Popular Song ( 1972 ) which , using basically the same musical criteria as Adorno — derived from European bourgeois art music — could have been designed as a riposte to his view of this repertory |
| 15 | Steadily , then , over the two years or so following Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship , together with Sir David Cardinal , who became his closest ally during that time , succeeded in gathering together a broad alliance of figures who shared the conviction that the situation in Germany should not be allowed to persist . |
| 16 | Dalgliesh raised it with careful fingers touching only the extreme edge of the cloth and saw underneath a smudge of blood on the carpet about two centimetres long and thicker at the right end than at the left . |
| 17 | For example , by good care a patient may be made less severely ill and , therefore , may have a lower actual mortality while , at the same time , accumulating only a low APACHE score with low predicted mortality . |
| 18 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 19 | The development , important to the company 's portability strategy and to developers interested in maintaining only a single application , addresses the multiplication of platforms and graphical user interfaces in the marketplace . |
| 20 | He also refilled air-bottles for scuba divers , ran sports-fishing excursions and , despite his slow left knee , was a good enough tennis player to have been hired as a coach at some of the Lucaya hotels , though the Maggot 's career as a tennis coach had been somewhat jeopardised by his insistence on helping only the prettier guests to improve their game . |
| 21 | Documents containing both text and simple graphics can be created using much the same equipment except that a graphics screen will now be essential in order to see the charts and graphs . |
| 22 | Women were even more mobile , reflecting perhaps the large proportion who at some time of their life entered service and married extra-parochial partners . |
| 23 | But Henry II took into his own hands the county of Cornwall and all the Earl 's estates in England , Wales and Normandy and kept them to provide for his youngest son John , allowing only a small portion to go to Reginald 's daughters . |
| 24 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 25 | It was already chaotically busy with officials and administrators knitting together the many responsibilities which would eventually make a successful tournament . |
| 26 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 27 | Projects provide a useful means of bringing together a wide range of skills and for integrating different activities within a module . |
| 28 | APERTURE No.98 , " Western Spaces " , addressed landscape , bringing together a critical article by Lewis Baltz on the CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES of Edward Weston , an essay by Robert Adams on the legacy from the nineteenth century pioneers of landscape photography in the United States , and selections of photographs by David Avison , Richard Misrach , Art Sinsabaugh , William Clift , Frank Gohlke , Robert Adams , Edward Ranney , Lawrence McFarland , Mark Klett — including his work for the " Rephotographic Survey " undertaken by the University of New Mexico , Marilyn Bridges , Terry Husebye , David Hockney , NASA and Emmet Gowin ( a strikingly different interpretation of Mount St. Helen 's from Frank Gohlke 's ) . |
| 29 | An IT system is one which satisfied the information requirements of an enterprise by bringing together a relevant combination of technologies which capture , generate , transfer , store or process information . |
| 30 | Niall Cooper , the national organiser , said that the lobby had been a tremendous team effort , bringing together a unique alliance of Church leaders , Christian organisations , tenants and people in housing need . |