Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | FRED 2 also proposes that the policy adopted should be disclosed , and draws attention to the requirement to apply the normal rules governing the recoverability of assets in those circumstances in which a company is contemplating the recognition of a deferred tax asset in respect of a provision of post-retirement obligations . |
| 2 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 3 | The currency reform followed a series of economic sanctions initiated by the interim government depriving the rebels of fuel , alcohol , tobacco and other items , in order to force the NPFL to conform to the demands of the peace plan brokered in Yamoussoukro , Côte D'Ivoire , in October [ see p. 38518 ] . |
| 4 | The company has just released the Interim Report showing the results for the first half of the current financial year . |
| 5 | The sinks and toilets were blocked with ice and the narrow cubicles connecting the carriages were thick with snow , their door handles stinging . |
| 6 | I knew that just beyond the narrow sea separating the two countries there were at least fifty warships ready to attack us , with many other smaller ships . |
| 7 | The narrow zone marking the relative movement between two plates , which in most cases is fairly clearly demarcated by seismic activity , is termed a plate boundary , with the peripheral region adjacent to this boundary being referred to as a plate margin . |
| 8 | ‘ No More War ’ was crudely scrawled in white paint on the brick wall of a wharf in Cotton Lane , and further along the narrow riverside turning the message ‘ Hands off Soviet Russia ’ appeared overnight . |
| 9 | Not far off she could hear rushing water where the Thames tumbled over a weir , and two more children were running along the narrow bank separating the lock from the river . |
| 10 | THE LIDs OVER the cannons ' eyes slid open as the pirogues approached ; the watch would have thought that he was only imagining the narrow prows breaking the black water , but the order had been given , ‘ Full alert ’ , and so the English sailor trusted his eyes and raised the alarm . |
| 11 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 12 | We have moved from consensus to conflict in politics : have we moved in that direction , too , as regards our constitutional order , taking that to mean the broad principles underlying the way government is organised and power exercised ? |
| 13 | The broad philosophy underlying the system is not at fault , although the somewhat inevitable complexity may have led to a failure to grasp implications of changes in time to prevent the odder features of instability . |
| 14 | If we look at a typical Midland deserted village site with the aid of air photographs and maps , we can see that it is made up of certain features which occur again and again on such sites , the most distinctive being the sunken holloways marking the courses of old roads and paths . |
| 15 | FIG. 3 A schematic bar viewed from the galactic pole showing the orientation implied by the infrared data of Matsumoto et al . . |
| 16 | Their financial resources separated European monarchs from their people in a thoroughly mundane way ; the divine aura surrounding the monarchy provided the celestial counterpart , just as relics of the saints jostled with jewels and plate and coins in the royal treasuries . |
| 17 | Platzer again was responsible for the statuary and it was from the Platzer workshop too , in the mid-18C , that the Jesuit saints flanking the nave came . |
| 18 | Western reports ascribed the relatively light sentences for the better-known dissidents to a desire to maintain good relations with the United States and the European Communities following the relaxation of sanctions in late 1990 [ see pp. 37783 ; 37859 ] . |
| 19 | By 1983 , with French , Italian and British troops patrolling the streets of west Beirut , American Marines protecting the city 's southern perimeter , the European community supporting the sovereignty of Lebanon , the country st ill seemed to be — as Murray 's guide pointed out in 1892 — guaranteed by the Christian powers . |
| 20 | In 1987 the European Commission reached a deal with airlines in the European Community extending the block exemption from EC Competition Law until 1991 in exchange for some small steps towards immediate increases in competition . |
| 21 | The textual space separating the first from later instances of the item " flock " shows the attentiveness required of the reader ( pp. 135 , 145 , 163 , 169 ) . |
| 22 | One fails to see what relevance this has to the present issue at hand which is to deal with the present-day traffic using the estate . |
| 23 | b ) At the end of the Laxfordian events affecting the Lewisian rocks a suite of granite intrusions and accompanying pegmatite dykes and veins were emplaced c. 1750 m.y . |
| 24 | But within the fields of the subtle tattwas comprising the inner energetic format , matrix or tapestry which makes each creature what it is , each one also possesses subtle perceptive abilities , just as we do . |
| 25 | The subtle energies comprising the instinctive mental patterns automatically produce a body and sense organs to match . |
| 26 | This major administrative reorganization threw into sharp focus the acute difficulties surrounding the management and financing of Advanced Further Education as a whole , not least the role of the local education authorities in the government of polytechnics and other colleges . |
| 27 | In Nicholson 's case , however , it is more interesting and quite important to characterize the age in which he found fame — the drug infested anti-establishment set of the Vietnam era — as one of the advance guard leading the underground movements of the Sixties to the surface of American life in a cloud of head-spinning smoke , at a time when marijuana was the best cash crop in Southern California . |
| 28 | They journeyed through the Andes , the rocky landscape repelling the staff until it sank in a valley in the centre of the earth . |
| 29 | We then draw attention to the strong assumptions underlying the studies that have been made , the limitations in the sources employed , and the problems in interpreting the results . |
| 30 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |