Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor will then need convincing shows in the USA before the FA would give him another four years , equalling the eight-year reign of Bobby Robson . |
| 2 | And his hat-trick for Wales earlier this month against the Faroe Islands puts him on 23 goals for his country — equalling the Welsh record held jointly by Trevor Ford and Ivor Allchurch . |
| 3 | City : Why Tokyo is tumbling The Japanese stock market has halved in value since 1989 . |
| 4 | In Eastern Distributors v. Goldring the original owner ( the customer ) clearly intended to make the deception . |
| 5 | Some were already sprouting feathers and were busily preening the new growth , some were sleeping off their last feed of fish , while others were food-begging from every bird within reach . |
| 6 | There will be times when courses , seminars , workshops and secondments will be the appropriate vehicles for transmitting the relevant material , especially when new practices have been tried and tested . |
| 7 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 8 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 9 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 10 | In Britain it is the curriculum which bears the main burden of transmitting the national idea . |
| 11 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 12 | MUCH has been said in the Steam Railway press about the financial and management trouble of the ‘ Mid-Hants Railway ’ , some of it even forecasting the forthcoming demise of the Watercress Line . |
| 13 | Between 1976 and 1986 the average error in the Treasury 's forecasting of the PSBR ( whether negative or positive ) was £2.3 billion , and in the 1983 edition of the Treasury 's Financial Statement and Budget Report it was estimated that the average error in forecasting the public sector borrowing requirement for the year ahead was ofthe order of 1.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 14 | The second feature is a protection mechanism that stops NetWare Loadable Modules from crashing the entire server , by adding memory protection . |
| 15 | Barely registering Gwen 's horrified face , she turned and whirled out , crashing the back door against the wall so hard that the echoes seemed to follow her fleeing figure . |
| 16 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 17 | His lawyer , Cameron Fyfe , praised Mr McTear 's determination in pursuing the legal action . |
| 18 | Fleming was no chemist and appears not to have been interested in pursuing the chemical problem . |
| 19 | There she bargained with the Queen , and in return for not harrying the English ships that were pursuing the Spanish Armada , O'Malley was allowed a free hand in Connaught . |
| 20 | It points out that strategies for pursuing the general interest that seem obvious in one generation will come to be questioned in another , and so will be changed naturally , from within the judicial process , not outside it . |
| 21 | However , I shall leave this problem to one side for the moment and concentrate instead on pursuing the general line of reductivist strategy , which remains unaffected by the choice of basic entities . |
| 22 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |
| 23 | The British Ambassador in Madrid , Sir Samuel Hoare , rapidly appreciated the potential value , for pursuing the Allied objective of Spanish neutrality , of the monarchists ' increasing opposition to the Falange , Serrano Suñer and the pro-Axis policies they supported . |
| 24 | Given the pressure on sites within the Science Area the University is actively pursuing the possible provision of research facilities on other sites within the City , in addition to seeking to acquire the Radcliffe Infirmary ( see para. 3.2 above ) . |
| 25 | He also promotes his staff according to merit , rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady , age-linked advancement . |
| 26 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |
| 27 | Without high social standards throughout the Community , the Single Market will encourage companies to continue trying to compete by cutting costs — moving to the areas with low wages , low environmental protection and low skills — instead of pursuing the only strategy which offers success in the global economy , that of high-skill , high-wage , high-quality production . |
| 28 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 29 | Peter , North Yorkshire , I hope Mr is not suggesting that it would be the intention of the County or the District pursuing the new settlement to er include within it er polluting industry . |
| 30 | But it remains to ask again why the state 's policy of pursuing the common interest always fosters the political interest of the ruling class . |