Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Interiors are light owing to the large clerestory and aisle windows . |
| 32 | Society makes a different response to old men and to old women , sometimes resulting in the greater denigration of older women ; this takes some combating on a personal and a professional level ( Sontag , 1978 ; Macdonald and Rich , 1984 ) . |
| 33 | Such a system could incorporate images to be construed ; hold relevant information to be drawn upon as required ; include a capacity to enlarge or select from the image under consideration ; provide cues aimed at stimulating a search for undiscovered features or ideas and be partially interactive in a non-verbal mode by means of direct pointing with a light pen . |
| 34 | There was no question of this amounting to a statutory contempt as proceedings were not ‘ active . ’ |
| 35 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 36 | Within the cathedral is a collection of early and medieval carved stones , some belonging to a previous monastery . |
| 37 | This could be light radiating from a light source , or reflected light . |
| 38 | You can be sure that some will be heard loud and clear complaining about the long Christmas holidays being taken by other people . |
| 39 | Measurements of the HI and CO lines enable one to infer for each point on the sky the column density of HI and H 2 moving with a given velocity , but the inferred H 2 column densities are cruder because of the extra interpretive step required . |
| 40 | She 'd never retire ; but she could fix up the house , put in some extra loos and bathrooms , have the kitchen completely refitted — get her business on a sound footing for the first time in her life . |
| 41 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 42 | More simply , this striving for the clear assertion of ‘ fundamentals ’ is an age-old and pandemic aspect of humanity : the striving for certainty and predictability . |
| 43 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 44 | 2 Coping in the difficult situation |
| 45 | The promised money fails to appear because , says the broker , of some failing in the would-be borrower . |
| 46 | He said : ‘ I wrote to the Serjeant at Arms on March 2 asking for a full investigation . |
| 47 | In countries like Colombia and Venezuela , there has been some tinkering with the traditional agrarian system , but on the other hand , Cuba has experienced a complete restructuring of the agrarian sector . |
| 48 | This is because those two theories postulate a particular event — the spontaneous arising of a self-replicating entity — as occurring only once in about a billion years , once per aeon . |
| 49 | IN 1985 graduating from the Slavonic Studies Department , I had no idea of the influence that Russian would have on my life and job today . |
| 50 | Neither Count Louis de Nevers , who died in 1346 fighting on the French side at Grécy , nor his successor Louis de Mâle supported the towns in their negotiations with Edward , and both remained loyal to their French suzerain despite the pressures which Edward brought to bear on Flanders . |
| 51 | Within the Lateran palace itself , a further ceremony with two seats of porphyry ( one of St Peter and one of St Paul ) signified the double apostolic foundation and the jurisdictional and magisterial power of the pope , demonstrated by his half lying and half sitting across the two . |
| 52 | As a result , I did n't do much spontaneous playing in the actual studio . ’ |
| 53 | She was half laughing , half melting under the determined onslaught of his caresses . |
| 54 | ft was the mindless pacing of a caged animal . |
| 55 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 56 | Delaney staggered over , half falling into the vacated chair . |
| 57 | Half seated , half leaning on the wooden structure and pushing with her feet against ground well worn by many such operations , she managed at last to move the gates gradually apart . |
| 58 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 59 | Is this referring to a moral triumph over injustice ? |
| 60 | That looking at a bald head , a stupid girl , and something else . |