Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , it may be mentioned that Hassan , Feinstein and Manko ( 1990 ) have recently obtained another particular solution describing the non-colinear case using the generating technique of Gutsunaev and Manko ( 1988 ) as described here in ( 12.56 ) and ( 15.57 ) . |
| 2 | Mr Parsons had turned to stand with his back to the fire , the eternal male hogging the best place in the room . |
| 3 | On 30 November Edmund died , Cnut had little difficulty persuading the English to ignore the claims of his relatives , and the country was re-united under his rule . |
| 4 | unc Once you have learnt this method you will have little difficulty solving the following equation . |
| 5 | From the start , feminists had little difficulty uncovering the sexist assumptions lying at the roots of most of the established trees of knowledge . |
| 6 | There was no coherent ideology embracing the entire middle-class , but there were two ideologies that subsumed its more active sectors . |
| 7 | The encoder is used to make changes to presets , parameters and values and it ‘ clicks ’ through 360 degrees , with each click changing the selected parameter by one step . |
| 8 | This on the contrary is the work of political genius requiring the ripest wisdom and the freshest vigour , and it is done with an elegance and a style that will compel and will receive an instinctive respect throughout the civilized world . |
| 9 | Whether the issue is education or health , pollution or overseas aid , one sees the same mishmash of self-righteous resentment , sentimentality and wishful thinking providing the same simple answers to every problem , without the slightest reference to the real world . |
| 10 | Fifty years ago , the British expeditionary force fighting the German army in France , was driven back to the beaches of the town of Dunkirk . |
| 11 | Once more among his Party faithful in Nuremberg in September 1938 , his proclamation contained the usual cliché about the infant Nazi Party beginning the fight against the greatest enemy threatening the German people , international Jewry , and a few days later , still at the Party Rally , he attempted to justify Germany 's attempts to rid itself of its Jews by the stereotype reference to an over-populated country . |
| 12 | The strength of the West German mark in the last quarter of 1989 and first quarter of 1990 , following the Bundesbank 's increase in its discount and Lombard rates [ see p.37165 ] , was also attributed to political optimism surrounding the economic and monetary union of East and West Germany . |
| 13 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | Now it 's blown up into a dispute between the two , with each side blaming the other for the lack of progress . |
| 15 | The present study shows that the intraarterial injection of endothelin-1 increased tissue type plasminogen activator activity in the regional blood accompanying the mucosal injury in a time dependent manner . |
| 16 | This means it can ‘ see ’ cool clouds of dust and gas , with the longest wavelength detecting the coldest . |
| 17 | This season no great turn around was expected : for the first time the Show 's organisers had had some difficulty filling the sixty-four available booths . |
| 18 | I have some difficulty understanding the hon. Lady 's objections to this policy . |
| 19 | This quake happened in Tangshan province in north-east China and is the only one ever known to have occurred in a really densely populated area , in this case involving the major cities of Peking and Tientsin . |
| 20 | To a foreign correspondent covering the British election for a foreign audience , whether a party leader appears energetic or decisive is simply a matter of objective reporting : a perception . |
| 21 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 22 | The prospect of spending eight months aboard a 67-foot yacht racing the wrong way round the world against the prevailing winds is not something that most seasickness sufferers would relish . |
| 23 | Study , explore and anticipate social change affecting the global environment ; |
| 24 | A map and accompanying literature showing the conservation areas in Juniper Green . |
| 25 | The nationalists strengthened their position until the British admiral commanding the naval force at Alexandria decided that he must destroy its fortifications if his ships were to be safe . |
| 26 | Count the number of words in this sentence using the –1 key . |
| 27 | This concrete provided a rigid mass covering the open space . |
| 28 | The decision to drop the case against him was made by Director of Public Prosecutions Barbara Mills , after the collapse of another trial involving the same company , Plasser Railway Machinery . |
| 29 | Golf : An uphill struggle mastering the 18th |
| 30 | This fragmentation following the 1986 restructuring produced a lack of co-ordination and an absence of overall control . |