Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album .
2 All right then , just this once , and only because Strawberry Story sound like Andrea from the Darling Buds singing the first Mary Chain album .
3 Glorious curls by Stephen Way and Jeanne Braa using the luxury Paul Mitchell styling range
4 How far has the idea of the University purchasing the former Warburg Library building in Heilwigstraße on the River Alster progressed ?
5 A government team led by Foreign Minister Michael Somare signed an interim peace agreement on Aug. 5 , with a delegation representing the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) , following eight days of negotiations on board the New Zealand naval supply ship Endeavour .
6 Isotopic and other compositional data relating the Southern North Sea gas accumulations to these Westphalian humic sources have been discussed by Barnard and Cooper ( 1983 ) .
7 Questioning from the floor , led by Mr Brook Land , a high-priced London lawyer representing the disgruntled Yehuda Mendelson , revealed that shareholders had not been fully informed of the arrangements between Norton and its chairman , Jimmy Tildesley .
8 An amusing note was that the old London Underground stock operating the remaining BR line has recently been upgraded from 1924 Central Line units to postwar Bakerloo Line stock .
9 The second force defining the modern West has been the intensive and intense encounter with other cultures brought about by imperialist expansion .
10 Voters were asked to choose only one of the 25 parties contesting the 120 Knesset seats .
11 Noble had returned in 1894 from Liverpool to London and , after some months attending the fashionable Bloomsbury Square chapel where Stopford Brooke preached to a large intellectual gathering , had decided to join the Unitarian chapel close to their new suburban home at 6 Patten Road , Wandsworth Common .
12 So CrossWind is adopting a client/server strategy with Unix on the server and clients running the native Mac , Windows or OS/2 interface .
13 The airline sells T-shirts , teddy-bears and a series of children 's books featuring the intrepid Joey , flown by the aptly-named Captain Keen .
14 This linking of two aspects of a teacher 's professionalism would prevent appraisal being regarded as simply a tiresome extra and could , on the positive side , help the process of planning ( West and Bollington 1990:9 — 10 ) : Planning for appraisal … needs to be carried forward in the light of the full range of the demands confronting the particular LEA , the particular school , the particular teacher .
15 Berg implies that they settled for a stable relationship , Frances acting the perfect Hollywood wife and ultimately finding consolation in religion , while Sam 's unspent emotions were burned off in work .
16 The other , Turpins Tavern , is a new building replacing the old Cross Keys , and provides accommodation , food and entertainment — especially at weekends .
17 In warm afternoon sunshine I spent a pleasing hour wandering the narrow Gassen ( lanes ) round the Münsterplatz .
18 Walter S. Melion Shaping the Netherlandish Canon : Karel van Mander 's Schilde-Boeck ( University of Chicago Press , Chicago , 1992 ) 386pp. 114ills. £35.95
19 Some leaders spoke out against the new trend ; in a paper on preaching delivered at a Free Church Council meeting the quixotic Joseph Parker defended congregational applause during a sermon because it encouraged the preacher and allowed the Holy Spirit to work through the listeners .
20 The sombre light , evoked through the use of half-tones , creates a brooding melancholy , binds together the complex figure groups and at the same time subdues the havoc surrounding the spotlit Nelson .
21 The Fabs are still the act logging the most US Number Ones since 1955 , 20 in all , while Paul McCartney ( 32 ) is the most successful writer , followed by John Lennon ( 26 ) , the all-time ace producer being George Martin ( 22 ) .
22 In a marble group in the British Museum depicting the bull-slaying Mithra the most striking feature is that three spikes of wheat are shown issuing from the wound of the sacrificed bull .
23 When Verzy was practically a white grape village ( now almost eighty per cent Pinot Noir ) , the exception was the vineyards near St Basle , which is above the village bordering the famous Faux de Verzy .
24 The most important thrust affecting the Outer Hebrides is the Outer Hebrides Thrust , a low angle thrust , dipping to the east , and cropping out along the eastern seaboard of the island chain ( Francis and Sibson 1973 ) .
25 The extremely utilitarian front end of the Sprinters is displayed against the massive ironwork of the Forth Bridge by No 150284 as it heads south working the 13.40 Dundee to Edinburgh train on 29 August 1988 .
26 The Ukrainian environment minister , Yuri Shcherbak , has warned that the concrete shell encasing the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor is cracking and that the plant is now " the most dangerous nuclear facility on earth " .
27 MediaStar managing director Bob Offen is likely to assume administrative control over the two self-contained media teams , with HCK 's ‘ director , media ’ Mark Taylor leading the self-contained HCK operation .
28 More than 260 Windows applications were on show , covering dedicated 32-bit applications for the 386 and 486 range of PCs , multimedia solutions for home and business based on the recently released Microsoft Video for Windows technology and applications using the new Microsoft Windows for Pens operating system .
29 Say the following short sentence up-to-time using the do-it-yourself SAS method .
30 It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed .
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