Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is essential that management reward rather than punish the risk taking required in abandoning the old and trying the new . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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. ] |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At least 17 women compositors emigrated permanently ( 12 ) or temporarily ( 5 ) in the years immediately preceding or following the Great War . |
| 15 | being accessible and providing the appropriate degree of support when necessary ; |
| 16 | Many aviation memorials tend to be stones with plaques attached , stark and simple and reflecting the high cost of even a basic design . |
| 17 | Most aviation memorials tend to be stones with plaques attached , stark and simple and reflecting the high cost of even a basic design . |
| 18 | A PENSIONER caused havoc after getting lost and driving the wrong way up a motorway . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In this ‘ evangelism equals church planting ’ model , the priority may be seen as a desire to make sure every community throughout the earth is covered by a church that is alive and preaching the good news of Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | Of ‘ all the oppositions that furrow Freudian thought ’ it can be said that ‘ one is but the other different and deferred , one differing and deferring the other ’ ( Margins of Philosophy , 17 — 18 ) . |
| 22 | It means searching through every tuple of the relation COURSE-DETAIL ( figure 3.24(b) ) or module ( Figure 3.25(b) ) looking for ‘ status ’ = Basic and updating the associated ‘ unit-points ’ . |
| 23 | Conservationists have an enormous job to keep the populations high enough for continued existence , while preventing them from growing too large and wrecking the little bit of space that is left to them . |
| 24 | I trundled along the valley , keeping the curve of the plateau to my left and watching the distant Land Rover , which seemed to be going too far south . |
| 25 | ‘ What 's so funny ? ’ asked Jenny Dale , sitting to his left and piloting the single-engined , low-winged plane in her usual deft manner across the turbulent , cumulus-covered sky . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special . |
| 27 | Indeed , other things being equal and accepting the other aspects of the RAWP formula , the SMRs suggest that the worst region requires 24 per cent more resources than the best ; each of the three morbidity indicators would suggest that much greater disparities in health and therefore funding needs existed , with the worst region requiring respectively , 110 , 33 or 46 per cent more resources than the best . |
| 28 | Noel was present and presenting the Welsh independence in and also Gethyn was present erm I 'd like to see , er , know that Gethyn was representing the Church in Wales apart from the fact that he 's also a baptist . |
| 29 | In Britain the concept of case management gained currency rapidly after 1985 , when the House of Commons Social Services Committee 's report on community care recommended that ‘ the government give high priority to encouraging and monitoring the developing use of keyworkers . ’ |
| 30 | In Rostock , East Germany , and Greenwich , South London , the ugly face of racism reared its evil head last week at almost exactly the same time , victimising the innocent and intimidating the weak . |