Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to be outdone the Wesleyan Methodists rejoiced in 1898 ‘ in the growing sense of kinship that marks our relations with the United States ’ , expressed their ‘ warmest sympathy ’ with America 's efforts to ‘ disburden suffering peoples of the pitiless and truculent misgovernments under which they have groaned ’ and rejoiced that ‘ In fusing together the two great divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race , the Churches have played the chief part although ’ , they added as a reprove to their more ‘ political ’ friends , the Baptists and Congregationalists , ‘ like their Lord , they do not cry nor uplift their voice in the highways of International politics ’ . |
| 2 | A pity he could not have read Alec Wilder 's American Popular Song ( 1972 ) which , using basically the same musical criteria as Adorno — derived from European bourgeois art music — could have been designed as a riposte to his view of this repertory |
| 3 | Staff of the Tectonics and Database Group ( bringing together the former Deep Geology Group and the Land Survey database staff ) continued to provide much specialist input to the multidisciplinary mapping projects that are a major part of the BGS Core programme . |
| 4 | Somalia , independent since 1960 , was formed by bringing together the former British Somaliland Protectorate and the UN Trust Territory of Somalia ( once an Italian colony ) . |
| 5 | At national level , the National Council for One Parent Families acts as a central organization drawing together the various statutory and voluntary bodies concerned and generally offers advice and information in this field . |
| 6 | Hang the door within the aluminium frame using only the two outer screws in each hinge . |
| 7 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 8 | Behind the beautifully restored façades of the buildings with their smart paint and gabled roofs there was evidence of a rich and varied culture , Gina observed , walking down the crowded cobbled pathway where restaurants and cafés spilled out towards the water 's edge . |
| 9 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 10 | He is an expert in grading wools that come from all over the world and blending together the many different types for yarn production . |
| 11 | Super Sally joined an exclusive club by becoming only the fifth British girl athlete to strike gold and only the second ever on the track , following Ann Packer in Tokyo 28 years ago . |
| 12 | The Junkers , predictably , wanted none of this and their interests in the government , civil service and the military persuaded the government to continue shoring up the ailing Ost-Elbian estate system through continued tariff protection , artificially high grain prices and a policy of grants and loans . |
| 13 | It agreed to draw on creative Marxism and other traditions and transform itself into an empowering organisation in order to contribute to opening up the new political formulations that will be needed across Europe in the post cold-war era . |
| 14 | Keeping up the good old traditions . |
| 15 | The initial pitches gave easy climbing up the low angled base , but as usual with routes having ( F6a ) and ( F6b ) moves , there were only two or three bolts a long way apart . |
| 16 | In the Old World , the Omomyidae were highly successful , crowding out the two other families , who were only able to make a living by becoming nocturnal . |
| 17 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |
| 18 | The emigration has been encouraged by a series of British Nationality Acts stripping even the 3.25 million people holding Hong Kong ‘ British ’ passports of any rights to residence in Britain . |
| 19 | Numerous other fragments of buildings , many of barn-like or shop-like forms , have been discovered in the suburbs , representing almost the entire Roman period from the lat e first century onwards . |
| 20 | In another room , there was a smiling , life-sized dummy of a Nazi paratrooper , Nazi guns , Nazi uniforms , a 1942 BMW motorcycle used by the Nazis and material explaining how the Nazi airborne invasion of Crete in 1943 had been an inspiration to the Americans . |
| 21 | The answers should have important implications for understanding how the normal nervous system develops and functions and how it responds to injury and disease . |
| 22 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 23 | I doubt that she 'll ever go upstairs again , ’ he added , going to the window and pushing aside the long red drapes . |
| 24 | Spent and trembling once the nasty little interlude was over , she then set about trying to tidy herself up . |
| 25 | Beyond that there is the sheer cost involved in visiting all of its customers and replacing the BT box on their wall with another , more expensive one and writing off the old analogue exchange line cards . |
| 26 | Brushing aside the major political problem of French colonialism , ( 'there was no reason to discuss the question further' ) the real problem for de Lattre was guaranteeing priorities on the delivery of equipment . |
| 27 | So at least the first two cells are still picking up the right two numbers , because we used the range names , we 've inserted a row on the other file , but er , we 're still about range names found where those cells are . |
| 28 | Projections suggest that FUNCINPEC will have 57 seats in Cambodia 's constituent assembly , against the CPP 's 52 , with minor parties picking up the remaining 11 seats . |
| 29 | GCHQ began in 1919 as the Government Code and Cipher School ( GCCS ) , picking up the few remaining members of the army and naval teams of codebreakers who had operated in Britain during World War I. A very small team was formed , working on a tiny annual budget in MI6 's offices at 56 Broadway , in London . |
| 30 | Two days later she 'd be back , picking up the same rubber skirt and saying , half you got ziss in one leetle size bigger ? |