Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun pl] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities then appeared to back down , accepting the students ' own nominees . |
| 2 | The way in which the finance ministry is handling the banks ' bad-debt problems shows clearly how low a priority it attaches to fostering a competitive banking industry . |
| 3 | REFLECTING the Scots ' growing influence in top level squash , five players — Mark Maclean , Peter Nicol , Derek Ritchie , Martin Heath and Emma Donaldson — will be on the trail of world-ranking points at events throughout Europe within the next few weeks . |
| 4 | The call came from trade union leaders representing the ferries ' 103-strong workforce and follows a £6m investment by Merseytravel to revamp the ferries in 1990 . |
| 5 | The call came from trade union leaders representing the ferries ' 103-strong workforce . |
| 6 | Eurotunnel 's only hope seems to lie in satisfying the banks ' technical adviser that his forecast can be reduced — which means at least to the contractors ' £7.5bn , if not to Eurotunnel 's own £7bn estimate . |
| 7 | Many teachers were ill prepared to teach language , and so might present the subject in an unenthusiastic manner , so repressing the pupils ' natural interest in language . |
| 8 | And we proved it by cracking the manufacturers ' secret codes . |
| 9 | Machine knitting plays an important part in stimulating the residents ' creative talents and a small textile workshop has been set up with some encouraging results . |
| 10 | Other comparable UK initiatives are taking place : the Royal Society of Arts is sponsoring a Higher Education for Capability programme ; the National Council for Vocational Qualifications , with its ideas on a competency based curriculum , is beginning to turn to higher education ; and the Council for Industry and Higher Education talks of developing the students ' personal transferable skills . |
| 11 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |
| 12 | Thirdly , and most importantly for our purposes , the natural-entity theory overcame the problems of the artificiality in the case of large companies of analysing the directors ' managerial power as being derived from the contractual agreement of the shareholders . |
| 13 | Offsetting this barrier is the possibility that the costs of imitating the leaders ' original innovations can be much cheaper . |
| 14 | We would be imitating the Bolsheviks ' own rose-tinted over-concentration on their favourite study topics ( like the proletariat state and collective farms ) if we lingered here too long . |
| 15 | Privately , they have backed Lamb and admired him for disclosing the Pakistanis ' ball-scuffing skulduggery . |
| 16 | WEST INDIES clinched the three-match one-day BPSA challenge Series with an overwhelming win in Trinidad , overhauling the visitors ' modest total of 152 with all their wickets — and a massive 24.1 overs — in hand . |
| 17 | The programme 's objectives include improving the divisions ' financial accountability and increasing emphasis on shareholder wealth . |
| 18 | The game afoot , he vented his embarrassment by scoring the Lions ' first try after 64 seconds . |
| 19 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 20 | But what is required now is not more research , but sustainable alternatives for harvesting the oceans ' bountiful resources — methods such as squid jigging or tuna trolling which have a negligible effect on non-target species . |
| 21 | Although Mr Smith welcomed the ‘ considerable potential ’ of the register , he ruled it out as an alternative to removing the unions ' constitutional influence outright . |
| 22 | In July 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev , speaking in the great Pacific port of Vladivostok — the name means ‘ Rule the East ’ — made what turned out to be a seminal address displaying the Soviets ' keen interest in the region . |
| 23 | On the one hand , the supporters need to learn how not to collude with any counterproductive dynamics of the institution they are trying to serve ( such as the expectation of direct advice , collusion with which would further heighten the expert image of the ‘ deskilling ’ specialist come to deliver solutions ) ; on the other hand , since their primary task is augmenting the teachers ' own skills , they must be able to cope with attributed evasion of responsibility , with not knowing their job , with letting people down . |
| 24 | Many of the new middle class girls ' schools sought to show that they took the problem of adolescent development seriously by appointing doctors to safeguard the welfare of their charges , and until well into the twentieth century pupils attending the Girls ' Public Day School Trust schools , the first of which opened in 1872 , went to school only in the mornings so that they should avoid strain and be allowed to be at home with their mothers in the afternoons . |
| 25 | It is typical of Orwell — recruiting the readers ' commonsense to conquer history . |
| 26 | SES/objectbench currently consists of two products : a graphical modelling tool for creating OOA model and an animated simulator for examining the models ' dynamic behaviour . |
| 27 | This new sort of foundationalist , who will be considered further in chapter 6 , could escape the demands of F 2 , but only at the cost of abandoning the foundationalists ' favourite weapon , the regress argument . |
| 28 | Viruses multiply inside cells by hijacking the cells ' own molecular machinery and forcing it into the service of the viral life-cycle . |
| 29 | glowing the hills ' drab shawl |
| 30 | Agfa , Kodak and Fuji produce ranges of colour slide and print films ranging from ISO 25 to 1000 , with an HR suffix indicating the films ' high resolution capability by virtue of the very thin emulsions used in the colour separation layers . |