Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 2 | Taylor will then need convincing shows in the USA before the FA would give him another four years , equalling the eight-year reign of Bobby Robson . |
| 3 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 5 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 6 | Frequently , too , such people have been blessed with the ‘ sixth sense ’ , their quiet mind automatically transmitting the hungry intentions of a hidden tiger for example , for all creatures are linked at the level of the mind , as well as soul . |
| 7 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 8 | First , there is the problem of transmitting the huge volumes of data and managing it on its way through a network to users . |
| 9 | MUCH has been said in the Steam Railway press about the financial and management trouble of the ‘ Mid-Hants Railway ’ , some of it even forecasting the forthcoming demise of the Watercress Line . |
| 10 | Barely registering Gwen 's horrified face , she turned and whirled out , crashing the back door against the wall so hard that the echoes seemed to follow her fleeing figure . |
| 11 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |
| 12 | However , I shall leave this problem to one side for the moment and concentrate instead on pursuing the general line of reductivist strategy , which remains unaffected by the choice of basic entities . |
| 13 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |
| 14 | We will be making regular reports to the AEA Audit Committee in the interim and vigorously pursuing the remaining actions as an integral part of our strategy for commercial success . ’ |
| 15 | The British Ambassador in Madrid , Sir Samuel Hoare , rapidly appreciated the potential value , for pursuing the Allied objective of Spanish neutrality , of the monarchists ' increasing opposition to the Falange , Serrano Suñer and the pro-Axis policies they supported . |
| 16 | Given the pressure on sites within the Science Area the University is actively pursuing the possible provision of research facilities on other sites within the City , in addition to seeking to acquire the Radcliffe Infirmary ( see para. 3.2 above ) . |
| 17 | He also promotes his staff according to merit , rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady , age-linked advancement . |
| 18 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |
| 19 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 20 | ‘ Any farmer worth his salt knows that quality can only be achieved by pursuing the higher standards of welfare . ’ |
| 21 | Peter , North Yorkshire , I hope Mr is not suggesting that it would be the intention of the County or the District pursuing the new settlement to er include within it er polluting industry . |
| 22 | Mr Wilson added that he was still pursuing the wider issues of the case until it became apparent whether the case of Ian X was unique . |
| 23 | So far , the explanation of corporate crime has concentrated on the specific long-term goal-orientated feature of corporations and the personnel who might become suited knights ambitiously pursuing the Holy Grail of profits , and who would , if necessary , be willing to initiate and execute crimes for the good of the corporation . |
| 24 | But neither of them is incapable of pursuing the artificial fiction of being himself . |
| 25 | The problem throughout is to identify what motivates financial participants to choose one option rather than another in pursuing the basic aims of any corporate system : to create wealth and to keep on doing so . |
| 26 | The difference between these two sections is that the former is supposed to show you where you should start pursuing the main themes of the chapter . |
| 27 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 28 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 29 | A simple reason why the younger activists are not seen as often on the picket line as their elders were , is that they are too busy pursuing the same goals by other means . |
| 30 | The sages who lay down the law in this party have always said that if Ms Aloni left education , where she was ‘ poisoning the innocent souls of Israel 's children ’ , they could contemplate joining Mr Rabin . |