Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denmark and Holland usually back Britain when it champions free-market causes ; yet , like Britain , they want the common agricultural policy to go on subsidising their large farms . |
| 2 | Like a grow-bag , however , they can not go on producing their rich harvests of vegetable crops such as celery and carrots for ever , since once the peat has all wasted away , poor acid subsoils , especially clays , are often all that remain beneath . |
| 3 | I do welcome those who have travelled from York and Hull , perhaps seeing their new Cathedral for the first time . |
| 4 | The criminals now embraced and encouraged their women , many of whom were patiently weeping their daily tearfall . |
| 5 | Fishes ' ’ songs ' , one should note , do not seem to be nearly so complex as those of birds , perhaps reflecting their lower position on the scale of consciousness and intelligence . |
| 6 | And , while not necessarily eclipsing their own songs , the rash of covers — chosen for maximum heartbreak potential — offer pointers into their mindset . |
| 7 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 8 | The peasants farm co-operatively and are together rebuilding their bombed-out village . |
| 9 | Political edge groups like The Redskins , Billy Bragg and The Three Johns held the music press to ransom , peddling their polemics while feverishly climbing their own ladders to success . |
| 10 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 11 | Intasun and Horizon are taking backward integration even further by not only operating their own airlines but also developing or buying up hotels and holiday centres in the Mediterranean area . |
| 12 | Not only does it hamstring itself by trying to please all nations , it also attempts to appeal to a mythical European consciousness that can not exist in the continent whose countries have spent centuries ever more jealously defining their national characteristics . |
| 13 | Give people who like gardening a chance to look after the Home 's own garden , perhaps growing their own seeds or vegetables . |
| 14 | The very transience of the wave , a purely provisional form doomed to decline into formlessness , condemns surfers to be story-tellers , constantly recalling their ephemeral experiences in the water , shaping and reshaping the past , immortalizing fleeting moments of intensity . |
| 15 | In our judgment there is force in each of those complaints and especially considering their cumulative effect . |
| 16 | Both may find a certain irony in the fact that some of the CPF industrial co-operatives founded in the 1880s are still trading successfully , while many retail co-operatives have failed , and have in the process of rescue become assimilated into other societies , so losing their individual identities and the reality of the democratic practice they are meant to activate , From well over 1,000 retail societies in the 1930s , the number has dwindled to 100 ; and the possibility of reducing it to 25 has been discussed ( see Chapter 1 above ) . |
| 17 | Still others argue that Parliament is not the most important site of political struggle for women , and that women would be better spending their political energies at the level of local politics or in everyday struggle . |
| 18 | Erm I , I wo n't go into them because you know basically erm I think the three main ones reflect the fact that he 's saying the peasants are rising up and they 're not only changing their political views erm but are obviously changing their cultural values as well according to , to , according to what he suggests . |
| 19 | Erm I , I wo n't go into them because you know basically erm I think the three main ones reflect the fact that he 's saying the peasants are rising up and they 're not only changing their political views erm but are obviously changing their cultural values as well according to , to , according to what he suggests . |
| 20 | A PAIR of tramps in the cellar of an abandoned hotel lengthily airing their psychological underwear until evicted by a ( superficially ) heartless boilerman : we seem to have been here before . |
| 21 | With the world trade talks perhaps nearing their final moment of truth , the senior spokesman for M Jacques Delors , EC Commission President , accused America of trade ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 22 | Friends say they have spent hours together discussing their marital problems . |
| 23 | Dr Gray does , however , advise people to take chips out of the frying pan , when possible , and cook them instead in the oven , so reducing their fat content . |
| 24 | While they are only following their natural instincts , digging can cause very serious problems in the longer term . |
| 25 | It has achieved a great deal of support from anecdotal evidence ( see Johnston , 1980 , for example ) , which clearly suggests that Senators and Representatives have been able to channel very substantial volumes of Federal money towards their home States , thereby promoting their political reputations , assisting them in the search for campaign funds , and enhancing their re-election prospects . |
| 26 | Delamont and Galton ( 1987 ) think that arts teachers may be attempting to overcome the low esteem in which their work is held by other teachers by adopting even more rigorous practices of pupil work assignment and evaluation than is to be observed in the practices of teachers in other areas of study thereby establishing their academic credibility . |
| 27 | In addition , it is feared that methods of collecting the community charge by establishing a register of all residents over the age of 18 may result in those who can not afford the tax not completing their electoral registration forms , as this may alert the authorities to their liability for the community charge ( or Poll Tax as it has become known ) . |
| 28 | All were equally intent on bringing the icon down and thus perpetuating their own careers . |
| 29 | Thousands of East German troops urged their comrades in the Romanian forces not to fire on their fellow citizens peacefully demanding their human rights . |
| 30 | Elean : A theme that recurs in your Soweto Stories is the theme of keeping the families together , not allowing their innate sense of solidarity with each other to be smashed and replaced by rampant individualism — on the other hand you show very sharply the negative side in this tradition , for example how it impacts on women . |