Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously , on the basis of very sparse data , estimates of the sidereal axial period ranged from +15 days to +224.701 days , the upper limit equalling the sidereal orbital period . |
| 2 | Overtopping the six waiting Titans of the Warlord class stood the solitary Emperor Titan — turtle head protruding , one plasma cannon held rampant . |
| 3 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 4 | The intelligentsia has an enhanced role in creating and transmitting the new national culture through a national educational system . |
| 5 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 6 | Brokers are already forecasting the 1993 pre-tax profits to be between £3.3m and £3.5m . |
| 7 | After trips to southern Africa and India , he practised briefly as a barrister , married , and settled down to the life of a gentleman , pursuing the two great passions of his life — the study of natural history and of great literature ( French , German , and Spanish , all read in the original languages , as well as English ) . |
| 8 | WOOD GROUP Fire Protection 's efforts in pursuing the local marine market were rewarded recently by the award of two contracts to supply fixed C02 protection systems . |
| 9 | Our part in this ‘ controlling puritan attack ’ consisted of making the occasional arrest , while pursuing the unquantifiable social role which filled most of our time . |
| 10 | We have to wait patiently a little while longer yet to determine whether the new generation Alpha RISC machines have turned Digital Equipment Corp around or whether the company is pursuing the same downward curve as IBM Corp , because the company has still scarcely started shipping the machines in real numbers — but it does not make it clear whether that is a function of supply or demand . |
| 11 | We , as a society , could learn from that , and , if we regarded the birth of every disabled child as a precious gift and were prepared to provide the necessary resources to the children and their parents to allow these gifts to develop , then perhaps we would be spared the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's blindness , deafness or other disability at whatever cost to themselves , their families and friends . |
| 12 | By deciding in late 1987 to take my daughter to Budapest 's Peto Institute for a spell of conductive education I ‘ contributed to the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's … disability ’ — ; in her case , cerebral palsy . |
| 13 | He lowered his head further , until he was drinking in the sweetness of her loins with his nose and his lips , kissing and teasing , sucking the tiny proud god who reared at the entrance to the Cave as she sighed and groaned softly far above him . |
| 14 | The Chancellor 's announcement of extra money for allowing the long-term unemployed help for full-time higher education or return-to-work schemes would have been ideal . |
| 15 | Mokhehle had strongly opposed the King 's policy of allowing the African National Congress ( ANC ) of South Africa to operate from bases in Lesotho . |
| 16 | Part of the trouble stemmed from a dislike of Sandys ' refusal to heed professional advice , and from his propensity for allowing the senior civil servants in the Ministry of Defence to usurp the powers that properly belonged to the Chiefs of Staff . |
| 17 | Assessors can use an accompanying checklist to make a more detailed assessment of certain factors , allowing the resulting completed form to reflect more closely and personally the assessed person 's needs . |
| 18 | While having no direct anti-tumour effect on the cells in vitro , it was found that cimetidine inhibited suppressor T cells allowing the initial anti-tumour response affecting cytotoxic T cells to persist and be effective . |
| 19 | All you have to do is answer the three multiple-choice questions ( right ) by circling the correct corresponding letter in the coupon and send , to the address given , by Friday June 14 , 1991 . |
| 20 | In it you remark that ‘ Mr Rabin has lately begun preaching the classical Zionist themes that a Jewish state should rely on Jewish labour . ’ |
| 21 | Study of a place 's people will be set within the context of both their physical and their built environment ( with the latter encompassing the entire human-created landscape and not just the pattern of buildings and settlements ) — with neither being determinate of the others , of course , but with all three inter-linked . |
| 22 | The ex-Soviet Turkestan Military District , encompassing the five Central Asian republics , had been abolished as of June 30 ; states in the area were establishing national armies [ see pp. 38825 ; 38916 ; 39010 ; 39012 ] . |
| 23 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 24 | By 1987 , the travel-to-work areas encompassing the seven major conurbations held more than 850,000 registered unemployed and , with the exception of Greater London , average unemployment rates were over 15 per cent ( DE , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | If the σ-subunit were also contacting the adjacent minor groove , at -40 instead of α , one good candidate to perform this task would be the non-recognition helix of the HTH motif . |
| 26 | Additionally , you should consider contacting the appropriate regulatory body . |
| 27 | The above ‘ spare time ’ could also include re-activating the full 39 Squadron Association Membership . |
| 28 | Most instrumentalists agree with Marx that parliamentary processes are meaningless charades , significant only as a means of maintaining the key ideological illusion that there is effective popular control of state policy-making . |
| 29 | On the one hand , the public sector institutions were thought of as being capable of maintaining the subject-specific national peer review system for themselves . |
| 30 | This has meant attempting to diversify energy imports with regard to the nature and the location of sources as well as achieving and maintaining the best possible balance between stability and flexibility in supply arrangements . |