Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 A good way of starting to do this is to either join an already-existent writing class ( you can find one by looking on the noticeboard in your local library , telephoning the local Further , Adult or Higher Education Centre or contacting the nearest Workers ' Educational Association ) or , if there is n't one of these in your area , by forming your own writing group .
2 There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) .
3 Breavman , the main character of his autobiographical novel The Favourite Came recollected his father singing the old soldiers ' song ‘ K-K-K-Katy … ’ !
4 In my spare time I saw a lot of John Keay , an Agriculture graduate of the U. of Saskatchewan and a good friend , as well as Jerry Harwood and Quincey Moffat with whom I was closely associated in organizing the annual Boys ' Parliament elections .
5 Reflecting the Nordic countries ' close relations with the Baltic states Iceland on Aug. 26 , 1991 , became the first country formally to establish diplomatic relations with Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania [ see p. 37945 ] .
6 The memorandum ( endorsed by the National Joint Advisory Council representing the British Employers ' Confederation , the TUC , and the nationalized industries ) identified as the essential problem the provision of a place in society for the ever-growing proportion of elderly persons and suggested that : ‘ Age sixty-five for men and sixty for women ought no longer to be regarded as ‘ normal retiring age ’ ' .
7 Dennis was on his first visit there and signing the star-studded visitors ' book is enough to make even a former world champion feel a little over-awed .
8 Since the Second World War the family has entered the international arena by its contributions to multi-racial education in Africa , by establishing the International Students ' House in London for students from overseas , and by founding the Michael Wills Scholarships at Oxford University to replace the Rhodes Scholarships which had been discontinued for Germans in 1939 .
9 Both Celie and Ponyboy are fourteen when the books start and both books follow their main characters through the most eventful periods of their lives , expressing the main characters ' outlook on life , their feelings and most importantly , their own personal tragedies and joys .
10 THE CAASE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING The Chartered Accountants ' Advisory Service on Ethics answers a variety of members ' enquiries .
11 They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church .
12 Henry Crabb Robinson equally perceived a party spirit at work but , noting the younger Wilberforces ' drift away from their father 's associates , defined it differently .
13 Recently , even those outlets have been drying up because they too have been selling the big breweries ' beer in return for cheap loans .
14 Article Five set out a number of principles governing the two states ' foreign policies .
15 In Sirnak on Feb. 28 Turkish soldiers were involved in a confrontation with villagers supporting the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) ; clashes in other villages followed on March 3 , 7 and 15 , with soldiers firing on demonstrators and making arrests .
16 In 1987 the para-profession of licensed conveyancer was created removing the legal professors ' effective monopoly in this area .
17 WHITBREAD yesterday denied that the 12 deals it is finalising to lease more than 1,000 pubs to regional brewers and pub chains go against government orders , aimed at loosening the big brewers ' tie .
18 The demands of party competition mean that alternative political leaderships will sustain the popular belief that full leadership control is feasible , even while impugning the current incumbents ' realization of this potential .
19 In February 1780 merchants of Westminster , Southwark and Middlesex petitioned against Lord Beauchamp 's bill for amending the so-called Lords ' Act ( 32 Geo II of 1759 ) to extend the escape route afforded by the bankruptcy laws to non-traders .
20 I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ .
21 A working party chaired by has been examining the Non-Intending Practitioners ' Course .
22 But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse .
23 They represent the best hope in years of cutting the rich countries ' farm subsidies which , at taxpayers ' expense , build up huge surpluses of foodstuffs that are then dumped on world markets at low prices — and which then put third-world farmers out of business .
24 At an informal level , they had not wholly lacked it before ; £3000 had been sent to them in August 1559 , and in January the English Admiral Winter had appeared in the forth , officially searching for pirates but actually cutting the French troops ' line of communication between their strongholds in Fife and Leith .
25 As a defence to exceeding the normal drivers ' hours of work , it was argued successfully , before the Kent Justices sitting at Sandwich , that these hours had to be departed from having regard to the care and comfort of the passengers .
26 The House of Mattli is expanding from couture into ready-to-wear and one of the big Bristol stores , Taylors , are putting on a show to publicise the fact that they will be stocking the new prêt-à-porter ' , Arlene explained .
27 Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps .
28 The notion that won through involved stopping the American companies ' strong-arm booking tactics and reserving a space in the domestic market for British films by requiring that exhibitors and distributors handle a proportion of domestic product .
29 Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people .
30 But they will begin life by taking the 20 years ' accumulation of magnesium oxide cladding from around uranium fuel rods used in the Magnox reactors .
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