Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The component , system , whole car or initiative making the greatest contribution to furthering safety in cars |
| 2 | The item , system , process or initiative making the greatest contribution to reducing the impact of cars on the environment |
| 3 | The Contempt of Court Act 1981 does not help to resolve the general problem since it simply defines a ‘ court ’ as including ‘ tribunal or body exercising the judicial power of the State . ’ |
| 4 | In Hinduism ‘ Om ’ is the primal sound or vibration accompanying the creative process . |
| 5 | If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee . |
| 6 | The contrast with Stadtverkehr –m War–del the glossy German government publication with its wealth of imaginative ideas that were reviewed in Chapter Five , could hardly be greater.Whether dealing with residential areas , walking , cycling , public transport , or traffic calming the British manual is bereft of new ideas , cautious in tone and apparently oblivious to the revolution sweeping through Europe . |
| 7 | Design a poster or collage showing the following parables : |
| 8 | Wallers , masons , builders and slaters ; those engaged building and maintaining water races ; surface carters , and labourers who might one day find themselves cutting grass for the mine horses and shovelling tailings or road repairing the next — all fitted into the day-worker class . |
| 9 | Model biles prepared with phosphatidylserine had a longer nucleation time ( 20 days ) than those prepared with phosphatidylethanolamine or phosphatidylcholine having the same fatty acid composition . |
| 10 | If you watch an effective policeman or nurse giving the same information to a row of people from different backgrounds , you will be surprised at the range and flexibility of the instinctive code switching . |
| 11 | A common criticism is that their ‘ telepathy ’ is nothing more than mumbo-jumbo covering the clever ‘ detective ’ work of extracting clues and information from their naive victims . |
| 12 | But then the cells at the tip begin to shoot out long filopodia which make contact with the wall and contract pulling the future gut further in . |
| 13 | So he 'd rushed to the field , catching a sun-dazed pony , scrambling onto the broad back , hair and scurf whitening the new trousers , cantering over the paddocks and clattering into the yard where Peter and Andrew were almost ready . |
| 14 | But however distinguished its history , Edinburgh very much sees itself as a University of the 1990s committed to research and teaching covering the hi-tech disciplines of the future , as well as disciplines rooted in the past . |
| 15 | But what one now sees belongs chiefly to the centuries of this book , the great church to the tenth and eleventh centuries , the atrium before it — though in form and function preserving the great courtyard of an early Christian basilica , where clergy and laity met before processing into the church for solemn eucharist — is of the early twelfth . |
| 16 | THE ACTORS march on to the stage of the New Victoria in Newcastle-under-Lyme as an Italian town band , with Chorus in a red hat and sash beating the bass drum . |
| 17 | Despite the warnings of Callaghan and Healey , the TUC at its conference in September 1977 voted for a return to ‘ unfettered collective bargaining ’ , with Jones and Scanlon taking the adverse view . |
| 18 | It was obvious that the latter had brought no great changes in the problems of poverty and inequality facing the working class in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 20 | If the mother notices that he does not like certain songs she at once introduces others with different phrases and melody embodying the same teaching . |
| 21 | The company partly blames the recession , but says its ability to stay competitive has been limited , ‘ due to the increased costs and uncertainty surrounding the major raw material , electricity , over the last two years . ’ |
| 22 | Example 2:5 Declaration as to party structures It is hereby agreed that : ( 1 ) one half in thickness of every internal wall floor and ceiling separating the demised property from any adjoining property is included in this demise ( 2 ) each such structure is a party structure ( 3 ) the tenant shall maintain each of them as such and shall be liable to pay a fair proportion of the cost of repairing or maintaining any such structure which shall have been incurred by any adjoining occupier or tenant or by the landlord such proportion to be determined ( in default of agreement ) by an arbitrator appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors |
| 23 | Also exhibited is an enamelled gold suite , a massive bracelet ( below ) , ring and stick-pin bearing the crowned L , cipher of Leopold I , who became King of the Belgians in 1831 . |
| 24 | Listening to her and Ferdinando discussing the latest onslaught — Piedmontese troops were said to be sweeping south throughout the summer — Wilson could hardly believe the enthusiasm displayed . |
| 25 | They also got very noisy , which must have been galling for Ron , standing out in the wind and rain supervising the keen members of his squad . |
| 26 | Financial orders on divorce negotiation and adjudication following the 1984 Act |
| 27 | Birmingham is still famed for its vision and enterprise building the National Exhibition Centre ( NEC ) , the International Convention Centre ( ICC ) , the beautiful new open space outside it — Centenary Square — and the National Indoor Arena ( NIA ) for sport . |
| 28 | He started by saying that after Montaine 's death Jean-Claude had survived in the dark — a dirty , torn piece of sacking over the window and newspaper plugging the broken panes , obscuring the merest ray of sunlight . |
| 29 | ‘ But Venutius opposed her and civil war broke out with husband and wife leading the warring factions . ’ |
| 30 | Thank you Mr President , congress Nigel , Director of Health and Environment moving the special report , Health , Safety , Environment Service Review . |