Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even in a co-operative relationship , Soviet military capacity was still " the most significant factor " of which NATO had to take account in maintaining the European military balance . |
| 32 | The Department of Transport is responsible for maintaining the 25 000 kilometres of trunk roads in England . |
| 33 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 34 | Maintaining the previous Prime Minister 's attitude to the selection of senior civil servants — ’ Is he one of ours ? ’ — will lead to the politicisation of the civil service at the top level , and I believe that that has happened . |
| 35 | The Forces were then given four strategic roles : maintaining the British strategic nuclear deterrent ; defending the United Kingdom Base ; contributing to the landward defence of Western Europe ; and helping to secure our seaward defences in the eastern Atlantic . |
| 36 | The attack was within the context of a speech largely praising the Roman catholic church in Ireland . |
| 37 | Shouting at the two children talking when they should n't during assembly rather than praising the other two hundred for sitting quietly is typical of a pre-occupation with failure . |
| 38 | Poland has stopped building the only atomic plant it had in mind . |
| 39 | Cos I 've been silly in the past , I 've told Evelyn lots of times and we had a new machine , a rapid na nailer , it er nailed er army sho er soles onto the at five hun it used to do three hundred and fifty nails a minute and we m made one just for I er went out on the road , er to five hundred a minute you see , and er we were building the first half a dozen and er er there 's two pawls at the back of the machine |
| 40 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 41 | His churches showed an equally acute awareness of changing fashions : the neo-perpendicular of his fan-vaulted church of St John , Edinburgh ( 1818 ) , which challenged comparison with anything in England at that date , was superseded by the elegant Early English and neo-Norman of the numerous churches he built for the Duke of Buccleuch in the 1830s , and in 1843 by the mid-Decorated of his St Mary 's , Dundee , in which he reproduced in a much richer form the arcades and clerestory of the burned-down medieval church instead of building the usual preaching box desired by presbyterian divines at that time . |
| 42 | Lockheed is building the TR-1 tactical reconnaissance version ( above ) on jigs that the United States Air Force kept in storage since production of the original U-2 ended . |
| 43 | The results of the latest 24-hour workshop are now beginning to bear fruit in Juan 's view , as plans are now in place to strengthen relationships with customers such as Kansai , Tokyo Electric Power and Japan Nuclear Fuels Limited , which is building the large nuclear fuel cycle complex at Rokkashomura . |
| 44 | Her fingers slid inside , rediscovering the hair-roughened wall of his chest , touching the flat male nipples and feeling them harden beneath her tentative exploration . |
| 45 | The towers of Manhattan seemed almost to be touching the cold grey sky . |
| 46 | May I take the liberty of reminding the right hon. Gentleman of his relative 's famous quote in relation to his own personal position : that each man 's life is like a diary in which we set out to write one account and finish up writing something different and that our most humble moment comes when we compare what we have written with that which we intended to write . |
| 47 | One particularly memorable Easter Friday say two tall , hooded monks hammering a papier mache dog onto a six foot crucifix in the middle of the dance floor and parading the impaled club-mascot high above their chanting heads . |
| 48 | However elaborate the equipment , it is merely magnifying the natural psychic ability ( or lack of it ) that the individual might have . |
| 49 | One µg of mRNA was reverse transcribed using M-MLV RT and subjected to PCR using the following internal primer pairs : ( 1 ) AD13/AD15 , ( 2 ) AD13/8E2 ( 3 ) AD15/3200 . |
| 50 | The agreement of rates with sub-contractors may be undertaken using the following alternative methods or combinations thereof ’ where appropriate : ( a ) A photocopied extract from the unpriced bill of quantities or internal take off is forwarded to the sub-contractor for pricing . |
| 51 | Repeat the picking pattern on strings 5–2 using the following major seventh shape : *INSERT CHORD BOX * |
| 52 | Previously , using the former communist regime 's arrangements , taxes had been deducted from the total wage fund of each enterprise . |
| 53 | We saw in chapter 1 how single projects should be evaluated using the adjusted present value ( AP ) method when sources of finance are linked with specific projects . |
| 54 | Unlike civilian frogmen , who use compressed air , Crabb was using the naval closed-circuit oxygen diving equipment which leaves no trail of tell-tale bubbles to disclose a diver 's presence . |
| 55 | The role of the law in constraining and shaping responsibilities in families is an important topic in its own right and I discuss it in chapter 4 , using the Victorian poor Law as a key example . |
| 56 | A programme for Microbiology/Biotechnology can be constructed using the above two modules together with : |
| 57 | ‘ The factory makes malt for us 24 hours a day using the pure Scottish water in the lake which is next door to the Drambuie factory . ’ |
| 58 | It is the same form of strain energy function as is found by using the Gaussian random walk theory of molecular configurations , in which case the constant C has the value , where n is the number of chains per unit volume . |
| 59 | For Ca 2+ influx rates using the neutral red assay , Ca 2+ -calmodulin was observed to increase the K m for cGMP from 34μM to 51μM without affecting the Hill coefficient ( n=2.2 ) . |
| 60 | The effect of Ca 2+ concentration on the calmodulin modulation of channel activity was also measured using the neutral red dye assay . |