Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the museum has moved to a new incarnation to accommodate its popularity — a former estate nearby , where a $9.2 million , 27,000-square-foot building has been constructed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects , seeking to replicate the mythical New England town hall , as does everything in the landscape from ice cream parlours to petrol stations . |
| 2 | Miss Fluck had not long changed her name to Miss Dors , and anxious to make her feel at home , the vicar decided to call her by her old name — though he was scrupulous in remembering to include the all-important L. ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , ’ he began when the great moment arrived , ‘ I am going to ask you to welcome a very special person here this afternoon . |
| 3 | By Aug. 13 a UNHCR representative was seeking to contact the Bosnian Serb military leadership to obtain the lifting of a siege on four predominantly Croat towns — Prijedor , Sanski-most , Bosanka-Krupa and Bosanki-Petrovac — in north-west Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 4 | Williams has emerged as the unrelenting villain as he patrols what has turned into Fortress Didcot , the race-team HQ , refusing to enlighten the enraged Mansell army on the reasons for their split . |
| 5 | After an injury-affected row at Queen 's Regatta when they finished third , BRC will be looking to lift the magnificent Shannon Rowing Club Challenge Cup won by Queen 's University 20 years ago with their main opposition coming from Galway . |
| 6 | This tended to give a certain bias to the work likely to be found in schools , especially as the coterie of advisers who knew each other 's work well , often teaching on each other 's courses and jointly helping to tutor the national D.E.S . |
| 7 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 8 | The two women were waiting to cross the busy Jamaica Road , and once they had scurried across between the trams Florrie continued her tale . |
| 9 | was going to extend the proposed L.R.T. system as far as Comber once this study was completed . |
| 10 | Attlee 's arguments pointed clearly to the foreign policy eventually pursued by the post-war Labour Government — attempting to manipulate the emerging US superpower in a way that was compatible both with the maintenance of Britain 's overseas Empire and with her traditionally limited commitment to entanglement in European affairs . |
| 11 | Morelli has moved from Donnelly Racing to join the championship-winning David Sears team , and McGarrity is returning to Luby Racing , the team he started with last year before switching to Venom . |
| 12 | Her father nodded his approval and for one moment Rachel thought he was going to ask the new MO 's name . |
| 13 | She had various consorts and was noteworthy for attempting to refuse the mighty ZEUS when she was engaged in seeking her abducted daughter , PERSEPHONE . |
| 14 | At first she tried to be as quiet as possible as she began preparations for lunch , but after a few minutes gave up and worked normally , deciding to impress the moody Dr Vaughan by making dumplings to top the soup . |
| 15 | Inadequate as its arable was , Sussex managed to build a considerable eighteenth-century prosperity on stock- and sheep-breeding , with an intensive use of downland and marshland grazing to complement the smaller Wealden pastures ; the beasts were moved from one to another as seasons changed . |
| 16 | A teenager who 's aiming to become the next Paul Daniels has joined the world 's most exclusive group of magicians . |
| 17 | The 94,000 houses identified as failing to meet the nine-point BTS criteria compares with a higher estimate from the National Audit Office and an estimate of 101,557 by the Scottish Office . |
| 18 | Gooch , having exceeded the mighty Hammond 's Test aggregate , edged into his stumps ; Hick messed up an attempted pull against Waqar ; Smith was held brilliantly by the substitute fielder at third slip ( Latif also happens to be the deputy wicketkeeper ) ; and on the stroke of tea Stewart , having batted imperiously for four hours , fell disappointingly to a catch at cover off slow left-armer Mujtaba . |
| 19 | The report concludes " there can be no confidence in an exercise which , having searched the whole UK mainland and continental shelf , identifies two nuclear sites as the best candidates for a repository " . |
| 20 | RAY HANDLEY was fired as coach of the New York Giants yesterday after failing to lead the two-time NFL Super Bowl champions to the play-offs for two successive seasons . |
| 21 | A well-known tortoise , named Jonathan , lives in the governor 's garden on St Helena Island and was once famous for allegedly having seen the exiled Napoleon there . |
| 22 | The UN people in Cambodia , having seen the promised Khmer Rouge offensive fail to materialise , are publicly calm about the new threat . |
| 23 | On Aug. 17 IRNA reported Rafsanjani as having told the Turkish President Turgut Özal during a telephone conversation that " peace with Iraq is a different issue , and we hold to our view that Iraq must evacuate its forces from Kuwait so as to create the necessary conditions for the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity " . |
| 24 | Hungarian radio said on Oct. 22 that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev 's spokesman had reported him as having condemned the 1956 Warsaw Treaty intervention in Hungary as a violation of international law . |
| 25 | Having evaded the other Fiats , Taylour headed for the carrier with his wounded TAG , where only prompt and skilful action by the ‘ Ark 's , surgeon prevented the loss of Howard 's leg . |
| 26 | In the course of visits to Prague , the Czechoslavakian capital , and Bratislava by French President François Mitterrand on Sept. 13-14 and by United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 16-18 , both leaders expressed their countries ' regret at having signed the 1938 Munich agreement , which had allowed Nazi Germany to dismember Czechoslovakia . |
| 27 | Randalstown also report little change in personnel , having lost the pregnant Carol Burns , but added Ballymoney 's flying winger Sonia Innis . |
| 28 | Having survived the worst Braintree hit back well and it became a question of how much damage Dean Ford could inflict , firing away with penalties as Romford became increasingly fractious . |
| 29 | Despite NEC 's adherence to the MIPS Technologies Inc R-series RISC , which it fabricates , the move seems to move NEC inexorably towards the Hewlett-Packard Co Precision Architecture RISC camp , because Convex plans to use the part in forthcoming parallel machines , and NEC already markets the Stratus Computer Inc fault-tolerant machines in Japan — having chosen the ill-starred Intel Corp 80860 as the basis of its first generation of RISC machines , Stratus plans to use Precision Architecture RISCs in future iterations of its systems . |
| 30 | CAMPAIGNERS fighting to prevent the proposed Darlington cross town route have re-doubled their efforts to complete a dossier against the road . |