Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [v-ing] the [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 | I feel there are a lot more important things in life than looking good , and in countries where life is harder you do n't have time to worry about such things , you 're too busy working or preparing the next meal . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is essential that management reward rather than punish the risk taking required in abandoning the old and trying the new . |
| 11 | These aims will be achieved by video-recording children at play with their mothers , starting when the children are six months old and following the same children through until twenty-one months of age . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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. ] |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At least 17 women compositors emigrated permanently ( 12 ) or temporarily ( 5 ) in the years immediately preceding or following the Great War . |
| 19 | being accessible and providing the appropriate degree of support when necessary ; |
| 20 | Listening and speaking ; Lado ( 1964 ) explains that this approach to language teaching considers listening and speaking the first task in language learning , followed by the mastering of the reading and writing skills . |
| 21 | Many aviation memorials tend to be stones with plaques attached , stark and simple and reflecting the high cost of even a basic design . |
| 22 | Most aviation memorials tend to be stones with plaques attached , stark and simple and reflecting the high cost of even a basic design . |
| 23 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |
| 24 | It could certainly be argued that those values and attitudes — fairness , change without violence , deference for order — marked the discussions both preceding and following the 1944 Act . |
| 25 | A PENSIONER caused havoc after getting lost and driving the wrong way up a motorway . |
| 26 | Keep them warm while frying the remaining mixture . |
| 27 | Transfer cooked croquettes to a plate and keep them warm while frying the remaining mixture . |
| 28 | This debate conducted in the case law is instructive when viewing the present position of the courts . |
| 29 | As I sat in the graceful room looking at Mrs Rumney , cool , poised , tranquil , with the little white creature resting on her knee I could n't help feeling how right and fitting the whole scene was . |
| 30 | If the national curriculum were about bringing difference Into the open instead of separating the desirable from the undesirable and suppressing the latter , we might see more people who are confident in their identity and can integrate from the basis of knowledge and strength rather than one of weakness . |