Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This result might seem puzzling given the conventional characterisation of most Friends in the eighteenth century as quietist ‘ following their habit of attending religiously to their internal impressions ’ . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the overall credibility of the experiment with solar forcing alone must be considered low , as it is illogical to neglect greenhouse forcing given the well-established case for its existence . |
| 3 | In spite of taking my time , the wheelbarrow fell over every couple of minutes , when balancing required the left leg to take the strain . |
| 4 | But erm quite frankly I ca n't see myself ever getting given the same sort of circumstances . |
| 5 | I was always getting told the Three Bears . " |
| 6 | All Sun units have reportedly been told to trim expenses 9% to 11% with the sales force getting hit the hardest . |
| 7 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 8 | Having received the unspoken messages which every corner gives ( the condition of the toilets , the way books in the library are presented , the displays along corridors and in classrooms , the amount of litter around the building , the beauty or devastation of the flower beds , the graffiti on the walls ) judgements are made about school and schooling . |
| 9 | And the only record that we have in scripture of any evidence of folk having received the Holy Spirit was that they spoke with other tongues . |
| 10 | EVERYONE must be wondering what is happening on the Mid-Hants Railway , the ‘ Watercress Line ’ , having received the startling news from the pages of a contemporary magazine that volunteers have been resigning from the work force in substantial numbers . |
| 11 | Having examined the various sectors er we 've come to the view that there are three sectors which are least worst in that effect , erm which is the north east sector , south east and the south west . |
| 12 | Having examined the parliamentary history of sections 61 and 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , it was held that the parliamentary intention was that in-house benefits should be assessed for income tax on the basis of marginal costs to the employer and not as a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; that this effect applied to the education of the children of teachers who were employees ; and that section 63 of the 1976 Act should be construed accordingly . |
| 13 | Having examined the indirect approaches to selling , we shall now look at the more direct methods . |
| 14 | Having examined the main reasons which explain the predominance of localised , single-employer bargaining on the North American continent we now consider the case of Japan , the other major country in which collective bargaining is normally conducted on an enterprise basis rather than in the form of industry-wide agreements . |
| 15 | This is also the reason why , having examined the main dimensions of employment change in the next two chapters , we return to the topic of population in Chapter 7 . |
| 16 | Moreover , he assesses such people ( in his book The Nightmare , 1985 ) as being ‘ markedly open and defenceless , not having developed the psychological protection most people have … they have thin boundaries ( between conscious and unconscious states ) and let things through . ’ |
| 17 | Having considered the intrinsic nature of the problem presented in this appeal , and having consulted the relevant authorities , my conclusion … is that an action lies in negligence for damages in respect of purely economic loss , provided that it was a reasonably foreseeable and direct consequence of failure in a duty of care . |
| 18 | Britain thus paid a heavy and increasing penalty for not having joined the European Economic Community in the early post-war period . |
| 19 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 20 | Besides being the more outgoing of the two , as well as having joined the local drama group , he had lived in London longer . |
| 21 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 22 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 23 | Having recalled the federal parliament in early September in order to authorize the referendum , Mulroney joined federal Liberal Party leader Jean Chrétien and New Democratic Party ( NDP ) leader Audrey McLaughlin in an unofficial truce whereby issues of partisan politics were put aside in order to maximize the impact of the campaign in favour of the new constitutional package . |
| 24 | Having withdrawn the original proposal to tax in-house benefits on the open market price charged to the public , the Financial Secretary gave assurance that in a number of specific cases benefits would continue to be taxed as before , and in the specific case of school teachers paying concessionary school fees , the charge would be nil or very small . |
| 25 | Having dismissed the logical difficulty there is an empirical problem as far as methods 1 and 2 above are concerned . |
| 26 | Having dismissed the Hayekian argument , are you not forced into some form of socialism ? ’ |
| 27 | so so you 're proud of having stopped the oldest hunt in , in Scotland ? |
| 28 | Having checked the main stable doors , Seb climbed the steps at the side of the stable and pushed the door to the hay-loft . |
| 29 | The Sinfonia continues its policy of including a Scottish work in each of its concerts , having given the first performance the previous evening in Lanark of Nigel Don 's Suite for Cello and Strings . |
| 30 | The magazine , unfortunately with a deadline of well before Christmas , has this to say of Romania in its summary of how changes in Eastern Europe might affect the game there : ‘ No visible signs of change and with the recent party congress having given the despotic president Nicolae Ceausescu another five years in office and dissident opposition ruthlessly crushed by the secret police , Romania will remain in the Dark Ages for the foreseeable future . ’ . |