Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is just as horrifying an idea to contemplate being walled into such a Paradise Garden as being condemned to spend eternity playing games with balloons which never burst , receiving presents from Santa without wondering how they were paid for , being organised into teams with leaders chosen arbitrarily from among us , or eating a permanent celestial buffet of ice cream and salmon sandwiches . |
| 2 | Despite tough talk about holding Saddam Hussein and his officers accountable for any war crimes , there is little enthusiasm in London for seeking jurisdiction inside Iraq after the war , or pursuing a defeated Iraqi president through his country . |
| 3 | Consequently , their concern was to prevent elected representatives from acquiring too much independent power or becoming a permanent self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 4 | This portal was swallowing , or vomiting a fat endless worm … |
| 5 | Though Hellenistic Greek kings were frequently portrayed naked , a device suggesting superhuman status , Roman Republican notables were more modestly portrayed in military dress or wearing a traditional Roman garment — the toga , a large woollen cloak with curved hem . |
| 6 | But Cindy , 26 , just could n't help looking a million dollars — or providing a beautiful free advert for her new exercise video , Shape Your Body , due here by Christmas . |
| 7 | The Central Authority itself had to fix its own tariff for the bulk supply of electricity to the Boards and initially did well in reflecting costs by resisting pressure for ‘ postalisation ’ or charging a common national price . |
| 8 | Everyday concerns such as urinating , taking a shower or having a routine medical examination become nightmares of concealment , lest someone spot his giveaway lack in the foreskin department . |
| 9 | Thus it is often erroneously supposed that a provision of the Convention which merely prevents it from displacing or affecting a particular legal right thereby effectuates that right , whereas in truth the sole consequence of the provision is to leave the matter to be determined under the applicable national law . |
| 10 | Generalising from your experience of reading one unique passage or making a specific concrete observation leads to speculation about patterns or regularities , and beyond this to thinking about causation and correlation , which are central to explanation and argument . |
| 11 | This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group . |
| 12 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 13 | If painting in powder colour and using a large sized brush you will want a reasonable size of paper . |
| 14 | At the opening congress session the outgoing BCP general secretary Petur Mladenov ( responsible for ousting Zhivkov in November 1989 — see pp. 37027-28 ) delivered a report entitled On restructuring the party and building a democratic socialist society . |
| 15 | A few years later , between 1743 and 1747 , he carried out some improvements to his property , partly remodelling the modest Elizabethan house in the Gothic style and building a picturesque thatched cottage and an octagonal Gothic tower on the nearby escarpment of Edgehill ; and these works at once establish Miller as an important figure in the early history of the Gothic revival . |
| 16 | We supported their case that the future prosperity of the Valleys depends on healing the scars of the past and building a new industrial and commercial base that actually improves and protects , rather than destroys , the environment . |
| 17 | The system uses a gas burner to heat the spraying sheet , thereby changing the way in which the drops are formed and producing a narrow drop-size spectrum , with few small particles . |
| 18 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 19 | His government overhauled the world 's seventh largest economy by privatising state firms , launching a hated value-added tax and signing a pioneering free trade agreement with the US . |
| 20 | The octopus can even modify the texture of its skin at high speed , a smooth , plain surface suddenly furrowing up into complex folds and ridges and gaining a complex blotched patterning at the same time . |
| 21 | On Aug. 18 , after deliberating for 10 days , a New York City jury convicted three Harlem youths of raping and brutalizing a white female jogger in New York 's Central Park . |
| 22 | As she walked down the wide stone steps to the ground floor her confusion was diverted by the sight of two men in their twenties , chatting together and keeping a watchful early evening eye over two three-year-olds playing hide and seek round the curve of the banisters . |
| 23 | Powered by a Ha 70/1 ‘ double ’ -Atsuta buried in the fuselage and driving a six-blade constant speed propeller via an extension shaft , a crew of two sat well forward in the nose because of this arrangement . |
| 24 | That 's why I 've taken the liberty of preparing and enclosing a suggested Personal Itinerary , which incorporates an abundance of ways you might enjoy your stay with us … |
| 25 | During the night the Earl of Atholl , jealous of Bruce and foreseeing a probable English victory , descended on Gambuskenneth and killed the depot commander and his men . |
| 26 | A top league of ten clubs is also intended to appease those who were intent on breaking away and forming a Scottish Super League , since there will be a built-in level of autonomy for them within the Scottish league framework . |
| 27 | These include : abolishing VAT tax on energy efficient products ; introducing an energy labelling scheme ; and establishing a powerful independent agency to replace the ineffective Energy Efficiency Office . |
| 28 | The Indians attempted to provide support against the LTTE by arming and training a Tamil National Army ( TNA — a coalition of three pro-IPKF Tamil militias ) . |
| 29 | By the mid-60s , Guy Thomas , who had been news-reading and fronting a weekly current affairs programme , became the main presenter of " Here Today " . |
| 30 | Labour 's White Paper , Your Good Health , pinpoints the need to promote health by creating a healthy environment and workplace and promoting a free public health service . |