Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more important getting that level and putting that right or getting the bottom level which to me would be more important |
| 2 | Giant freckles , called chloasma , sometimes appear on the face or neck in sunlight if you are pregnant or taking the combined Pill . |
| 3 | However , the richness as a cultural object of a deteriorated Windows 1.0 disc pack is cold comfort to an archivist or historian preoccupied with preserving or regenerating the operational environment of the product . |
| 4 | The pressure to please must have been especially strong for women writers who , if they wrote novels of ideas , were in danger of either being rejected as over-cerebral or having the intellectual content of their work ignored . |
| 5 | First , it is clear that putting the National Union of Public Employees , the National and Local Government Officers Association and the Confederation of Health Service Employees back in the driving seat will never solve the problem . |
| 6 | What about a game of chess — would n't that be more interesting than following a solitary pursuit — or how about gin rummy ? ’ |
| 7 | This would be very sensible if using an expensive substrate such as glass beads . |
| 8 | And the traders themselves told us that , by calling weekly and establishing a personal relationship with their customers , they can rely on collecting debts from people who might not reliably send off payments , say to an H P firm . |
| 9 | For each piece of field research aims at achieving a ‘ scoop ’ which will redound to the anthropologist 's credit , and the more interesting and exciting the raw data the better . |
| 10 | The British , with experience gained in the Boer War , had designed a standard rifle , light and holding the maximum number of rounds for fast , aimed fire at a specific target . |
| 11 | Sonia Heywood , assistant director ( child care ) for Wiltshire SSD , expressed some of her staff 's worries about getting it wrong and mishandling the whole issue . |
| 12 | They point to what they see as the devastating effect of the Exchange Rate Mechanism on keeping interest rates high and maintaining a debt-driven recession . |
| 13 | By breaking a task down into small , manageable pieces , keeping reward levels high and taking an analytical approach you can achieve a great deal in all spheres of life . |
| 14 | It is essential that management reward rather than punish the risk taking required in abandoning the old and trying the new . |
| 15 | ‘ I was too much in awe of you to utter in those days , ’ she confessed , lightly dismissive and matching the subtle mockery of his tone . |
| 16 | There could be no question now of the French fleet overwhelming the British and escorting an invading army to Scotland and Essex . |
| 17 | ‘ A European ’ , Temple wrote , ‘ can not exert a personal influence on the characters of more than one hundred to two hundred natives ’ ; but if he concentrated on ‘ guiding and controlling the native leaders ’ , then his influence would be ‘ magnified by a natural process a thousand fold ’ and the result would be that : ‘ The power thus exerted is infinitely greater in scope than any power or influence which it can be hoped that he will exert under the … system of Direct Rule . ’ |
| 18 | Our menu list will give you some idea of how tasty and interesting a low-fat diet can be . |
| 19 | When the Catholic hierarchy was restored in 1850 Shrewsbury , whilst defending the restoration in public and denouncing the Catholic peers who distanced themselves from it , felt that the triumphalist attitude of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman [ q.v. ] |
| 20 | These arguments yield the curve in Fig. 6.1 , sloping downwards from left to right , becoming less and less steep and cutting the horizontal axis at the natural unemployment percentage . |
| 21 | He 's described as five feet six inches tall , white , clean shaven and wearing a blue anorak . |
| 22 | Here are narrow buildings with ornate , stepped and curving gables , topped by sculptured finials standing side by side , each one different but creating a homogeneous whole . |
| 23 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 24 | The Orbital 's two-phase ( air blast ) direct injection fuelling system , which adds a finely atomised fuel charge to the cylinder only after the exhaust port has been covered , eliminates the economy and emissions problems of old while providing a high degree of control over charge stratification . |
| 25 | There 's nothing as exciting as having a new baby , I keep thinking , as I gaze into other mums ' prams at their new arrivals . |
| 26 | Having a wardrobe of fragrances is as exciting as owning a vast array of stylish clothes ( with the advantage , after you 've made your initial choice , that perfumes always fit ) . |
| 27 | The courts have been reluctant to undermine this power , typically either holding the claim non-justiciable as concerning a political question , or evading the issue by deciding the case on a narrower point . |
| 28 | For instance , some picnickers at the top of a high mountain , directing their glance towards the camp-fire , may observe , ‘ The water is hot enough to make the tea ’ , and then find they were sadly wrong when tasting the resulting brew . |
| 29 | Such trial trenches are far more cost-effective than undertaking a full-scale excavation without being sure if archaeological features survive on a site . |
| 30 | This also applies to an application for any order which would have the effect of varying or discharging an existing order . |