Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presents no problem if the seller has a certificate or certificates representing the precise amount sold to a single buyer . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | In Hinduism ‘ Om ’ is the primal sound or vibration accompanying the creative process . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Previously , advertising was handled by local agencies in each country , with Gregory Ellis Martin & Partners handling the international duty-free campaign . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Design a poster or collage showing the following parables : |
| 8 | Of course , it was most important that no one should see Colin , Mary , or Dickon entering the secret garden . |
| 9 | There was the most horrible letter in England or Britain joining the Common Market . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And rules prohibiting the commercial use of some products that the plant was designed to produce have not been rescinded . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Despite the warnings of Callaghan and Healey , the TUC at its conference in September 1977 voted for a return to ‘ unfettered collective bargaining ’ , with Jones and Scanlon taking the adverse view . |
| 20 | These changes were of particular symbolic importance for moral entrepreneurial groups , and brought into sharp relief what appeared to be the declining importance of certain social arrangements concerning the family , and certain moral ideals and values affecting the social significance of Christianity . |
| 21 | It was obvious that the latter had brought no great changes in the problems of poverty and inequality facing the working class in Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | Over a cup of tea she regaled the old lady with the story of her son and grandchild saving the wounded squirrel , and , leaving her to pass it on to her companions , she drove back to the surgery . |
| 23 | Morceli says he is ‘ 80 per cent ’ confident of providing himself with the perfect 23rd birthday present by eclipsing Eamonn Coghlan 's ten-year-old mile mark of 3min 49.78sec but Norman believes other records will also tumble , with Colin Jackson in the 60m hurdles and Murray providing the British challenge . |
| 24 | There is no place for surgical scrub solutions or other antiseptic solutions , as they damage the cells of the wound as well as those in the blood and other natural cells and secretions helping the normal process of repair . |
| 25 | Physically , he was stiff and tense , the muscles in his back and shoulders resisting the comforting embrace of the padded flight couch . |
| 26 | The woods and walks surrounding the old Sussex manor house are peopled by children who died young ; the visitor , who is the narrator , is aware of them , but can not actually see them ; his hostess , who is vividly aware of the children 's presence , is blind . |
| 27 | Either it permits an obdurate East Berlin leadership to continue , at the risk of deeper disaffection among the population and growing isolation among its allies , or it encourages reform , and risks destroying the fragile foundations of East German statehood entirely . |
| 28 | Some have as many as a hundred photographs and captions describing the various stages of the project . |
| 29 | THE Association of Cricket Statisticians and Scorers of India has compiled its yearly bible of facts , figures , records , tables , scorecards , lists , quirks and curiosities scrutinizing the Indian season in microscopic detail , and leaving no statistical stone unturned . |
| 30 | So CrossWind is adopting a client/server strategy with Unix on the server and clients running the native Mac , Windows or OS/2 interface . |