Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Presidential Council initially appeared designed to supplant the CPSU central committee politburo as the main centre of political decision making in the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | How far these findings apply to short-term contract working in the manufacturing sector is the subject of the following section . |
| 3 | Madeleine Albright , 55 , currently teaching at Georgetown University , was a political scientist specializing in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe . |
| 4 | Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness . |
| 5 | A private buyer bidding in the room purchased two appealing lots , a large ‘ Allegory of Abundance ’ ( lot 73 ) by Domenico Piola ( £180,000 ; $288,000 ) and a Venetian ‘ Masked Ball ’ by Giovanni Antonio Guardi ( lot 80 ) for £305,000 ( $488,000 ; est. £180,000–200,000 ) . |
| 6 | A strong wind blowing in the right direction can put a metre on a high tide in exceptional circumstances , and the wind can also prevent the tide from receding as much as it should . |
| 7 | That is how such an absurd position has been reached in the middle of a horrific recession , with genocide in Yugoslavia and economic collapse threatening in the East . |
| 8 | Thinking of the frail figure sitting in the gloomy room at the sanatorium , trusting the great Bonanza . |
| 9 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 10 | The tests followed a progressive programme terminating in the destruction of the tested stabilisers , and the official report on the accident states that ‘ the character of the spar failure produced on test was strikingly similar to that evident in the wreckage of G-BEBP ’ . |
| 11 | Of course , we are still receiving the odd British shell dropping in the orchard . |
| 12 | A sulking Myeloski climbed back into the Moskvich with the sulking driver getting in the front . |
| 13 | ‘ I doubt there is a single child in the entire school who has read that book , and here you are , an unhatched shrimp sitting in the lowest form there is , trying to tell me a whopping great lie like that ! |
| 14 | Right : An unusual Doctor Johnson ‘ association ’ item : a manuscript ink and watercolour chart ( much reduced ) of the armies of Frederick the Great , drawn by an English soldier serving in the Emperor 's Body Regiment and purchased in Berlin by Hester Piozzi ( formerly Thrale ) , immortalised by her friendship with Doctor Johnson . |
| 15 | The future will bring very high speed faxing in the shape of Group IV , which will use ISDN ( Integrated Services Digital Network ) lines to blast faxes out at 64,000bps |
| 16 | I certainly felt sad , as I pictured the French girl standing in the middle of the field waving goodbye . |
| 17 | Reuters , the centre of foreign exchange dealing in the UK , is directly authorised by the SIB . |
| 18 | Some gibbering old fool sitting all alone drooling on his shirt Some senile old fart playing in the dirt . |
| 19 | When I met Belle she was an old lady living in the end-of-terrace where her mother had died . |
| 20 | I found much that I identified with , the old lady looking in the TV shop window , enjoying all channels , one assumes , the ‘ Eye-drop ’ queue in the hospital . |
| 21 | The injured girl and another fifteen year old girl travelling in the back with her , were taken to Milton Keynes General Hospital . |
| 22 | I HAVE recently joined a National Economic Development Council working party on European public purchasing , which is seeking to contribute to the opening up of public sector purchasing in the EC . |
| 23 | The demand for more public accountability in the 1970s , along with the demand for real reductions in public sector spending in the UK and the USA , has included demands for greater ‘ value for money ’ from government . |
| 24 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 25 | The term itself only began to be generally used in the early nineteenth century in Western Europe , and one of the first systematic discussions is to be found in the book by Lorenz von Stein , where the social movement is portrayed as a struggle for greater social independence culminating in the class struggle of the proletariat . |
| 26 | Whilst these issues are particularly considered in the context of office systems , opportunities exist to improve the quality of electronic record keeping in the following types of developments : groupware , optical imaging systems , executive information systems ( EIS ) , text retrieval systems , electronic data interchange ( EDI ) , compound document management and work flow management , amongst others . |
| 27 | Further , it seems likely that although it may have been the case in the earlier nineteenth century that the proportion of the English population living in the higher-waged North increased both as a result of a higher natural rate of increase and from in-migration , in 1801 53 per cent of the population still lived south of the Severn/Wash line , while north of it counties like Herefordshire and Worcestershire were not high-waged . |
| 28 | If the maser radiation of the main features intersects dense , plasma-like , compact ionized regions , the stimulated Raman scattering in the plasma ( due to nonlinear interaction between the longitudinal and transverse waves ) is expected to produce additional waves with up- and down-shifted frequencies , which are separated by the plasma frequency from the original one . |
| 29 | Mucky Beck was a frightening rat-infested torrent , with steep moss-stained steps at either end of the alley and untold danger lurking in the shadows between . |
| 30 | Along the path of a light ray travelling in the equatorial plane in Schwarzschild space eqn ( 8.1 ) reduces to where Z is . |