Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silent serial recall of similar-sounding words ( homophones ) or signs sharing the same handshape ( non-homophones in English ) was used as a base for considering the effect of overt rehearsal either in sign ( into sign ) , or in words ( into words ) . |
| 2 | Or Strauss congratulating the two of them on ‘ this piece of poetry which is quite exceptionally suited to music ’ ? |
| 3 | This presents no problem if the seller has a certificate or certificates representing the precise amount sold to a single buyer . |
| 4 | The component , system , whole car or initiative making the greatest contribution to furthering safety in cars |
| 5 | The item , system , process or initiative making the greatest contribution to reducing the impact of cars on the environment |
| 6 | The Contempt of Court Act 1981 does not help to resolve the general problem since it simply defines a ‘ court ’ as including ‘ tribunal or body exercising the judicial power of the State . ’ |
| 7 | In Hinduism ‘ Om ’ is the primal sound or vibration accompanying the creative process . |
| 8 | After the war the number of readers who would laugh at pictures of seasick passengers , or bosuns getting the better of the second mate , diminished rapidly . |
| 9 | If you would prefer to renew your licence starting a new period , rather than have a duplicate or replacement showing the same period as the original licence , you may do so on payment of the full licence fee . |
| 10 | The contrast with Stadtverkehr –m War–del the glossy German government publication with its wealth of imaginative ideas that were reviewed in Chapter Five , could hardly be greater.Whether dealing with residential areas , walking , cycling , public transport , or traffic calming the British manual is bereft of new ideas , cautious in tone and apparently oblivious to the revolution sweeping through Europe . |
| 11 | Previously , advertising was handled by local agencies in each country , with Gregory Ellis Martin & Partners handling the international duty-free campaign . |
| 12 | A further change occurred in 1804–5 when the firm 's style was altered to Rundell , Bridge & Rundell following the senior partner 's nephew , Edmond Waller Rundell ( 1768 ? –1857 ) , son of Maria Eliza Rundell [ q.v. ] , being admitted into the business . |
| 13 | Design a poster or collage showing the following parables : |
| 14 | Of course , it was most important that no one should see Colin , Mary , or Dickon entering the secret garden . |
| 15 | There was the most horrible letter in England or Britain joining the Common Market . |
| 16 | Wallers , masons , builders and slaters ; those engaged building and maintaining water races ; surface carters , and labourers who might one day find themselves cutting grass for the mine horses and shovelling tailings or road repairing the next — all fitted into the day-worker class . |
| 17 | Model biles prepared with phosphatidylserine had a longer nucleation time ( 20 days ) than those prepared with phosphatidylethanolamine or phosphatidylcholine having the same fatty acid composition . |
| 18 | If you watch an effective policeman or nurse giving the same information to a row of people from different backgrounds , you will be surprised at the range and flexibility of the instinctive code switching . |
| 19 | The findings were , essentially , that those rats or students receiving the uncontrollable unpleasant experience began by making determined efforts to stop or escape it , but after a lack of success , eventually became passive and helpless . |
| 20 | And now she was entirely alone , brother and sister both lost to her , Jonathon upstairs , Victoria downstairs and Melanie treading the dangerous route between them , connected to neither . |
| 21 | But then the cells at the tip begin to shoot out long filopodia which make contact with the wall and contract pulling the future gut further in . |
| 22 | So he 'd rushed to the field , catching a sun-dazed pony , scrambling onto the broad back , hair and scurf whitening the new trousers , cantering over the paddocks and clattering into the yard where Peter and Andrew were almost ready . |
| 23 | But however distinguished its history , Edinburgh very much sees itself as a University of the 1990s committed to research and teaching covering the hi-tech disciplines of the future , as well as disciplines rooted in the past . |
| 24 | ( Remember Dupin being able to tell his friend step by step just what his silent train of thought had been , and Holmes doing the same to Watson . ) |
| 25 | But what one now sees belongs chiefly to the centuries of this book , the great church to the tenth and eleventh centuries , the atrium before it — though in form and function preserving the great courtyard of an early Christian basilica , where clergy and laity met before processing into the church for solemn eucharist — is of the early twelfth . |
| 26 | Thorneycroft insisted , like Sandys before him over the TSR 2 , that economies should be made by the Navy and RAF using the same airframe for their future supersonic fighter , but he was equally unsuccessful : the requirements for the two environments were far too far apart . |
| 27 | There are so many other causes and sponsorships chasing the same money . |
| 28 | And rules prohibiting the commercial use of some products that the plant was designed to produce have not been rescinded . |
| 29 | THE ACTORS march on to the stage of the New Victoria in Newcastle-under-Lyme as an Italian town band , with Chorus in a red hat and sash beating the bass drum . |
| 30 | In Newham the development officer 's heaviest referral months were May to September , and January and February ( the summer holiday and severest winter weeks ) ; in Ipswich the pattern was slightly different , with January and February being low referral months , but with October , December and March matching the high referral summer months . |