Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as a Portuguese Euro-minister claims that Britain 's oil may have to be controlled by the authorities in Brussels , Jacques Delors demands another £2bn and ERM-inspired interest rates force thousands on to the dole , how long will it be before one of our major political parties has the guts to campaign against the European Community in its present form , rather than sticking their collective heads in the merde and pretending that everything 's coming up roses ? |
| 2 | An accurate picture of the growth of the business was revealed when the partners — although maintaining their day-to-day management intact — sold their equity to Chatles Barker in 1986 , for an initial consideration of £3.16m. , finally equal to £9m . |
| 3 | The Western Isles council are presently considering the proposal , but in their present financial straits following the BCCI collapse , they will no doubt be more interested in saving face with jobs than saving their unique landscape heritage . |
| 4 | These are likely to be self-serving , but , in Berle and Means ' view , the possibility is also opened up that rather than furthering their own interests , or those of the shareholders as currently required by law , management might act in the interests of society as a whole , evolving into a ‘ purely neutral technocracy balancing a variety of claims by various groups in the community and assigning to each a portion of the income stream on the basis of public policy rather than private cupidity ’ . |
| 5 | He makes the point that predicting what people will do is always harder than measuring their current behaviour . |
| 6 | What would be easier than withdrawing their overseas investments , something that would decimate our markets ? |
| 7 | Partly to overcome this , the Housing Corporation now favours local groups linking to existing national or regional associations rather than starting their own associations . |
| 8 | Orthodox Protestants doing no more than exercising their democratic right to protest against the paying of tribute to the Antichrist were taken to court and fined . |
| 9 | People tend to think about languages as a single entity , rather than identifying their own priorities within the four elements : speaking , reading , writing and listening . |
| 10 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 11 | The horticultural overtone is not unattractive ; we ‘ tend ’ the plants in the garden and the term to a gardener implies more than supplying their basic needs . |
| 12 | Guests at their big Los Angeles show included KURT COBAIN and COURTNEY LOVE , who were so impressed by king of the skins BRENDON O'HARE that they are seriously considering naming their imminent first-born after him ! |
| 13 | This is partly because of the tight political control exercised by the state , but also because in Syria refugees have always enjoyed equal rights with Syrian citizens while maintaining their own identity . |
| 14 | The most likely explanation is that they saw it as a way to keep the Catholic-educated Mary out of Scotland , while maintaining their formal loyalty to her , thereby maximizing their opportunity to advance the Protestant cause while minimizing the need to clash directly with their sovereign ; there was , after all , no sign that Mary was particularly interested in the internal affairs of her kingdom , and although it was a gamble , and a risky one , leaving her to continue to enjoy life in France appeared to be the best chance they had . |
| 15 | Some gods , while keeping their usual forms , were also thought to be manifest in a living sacred animal , who was regarded as the Ba or power of god and was a cult image , herald and intermediary . |
| 16 | He made her feel naked anyway , despite the fact that there was nothing transparent about tonight 's outfit and even its low round neckline fully concealed her breasts while revealing their shapely swell . |
| 17 | US opposition to the convention had been co-ordinated by the Industrial Biotechnology Association , whose director , Richard Godown , had claimed that the treaty " was designed to hurt an industry that the US dominates , so that other countries may impede the US industry 's growth while developing their own industries using our technology " . |
| 18 | That should n't take away the value of the announcement : Cognos , a company well regarded as technically sound and with much work on exploiting object-orientation quietly under its belt , is offering users a firm bridge into distributed and client/server computing while preserving their existing applications . |
| 19 | Enterprise says the system is ideal for large companies wishing to organise their data management systems into a more coherent whole while preserving their current hardware and application investments . |
| 20 | Inside , Titford and Barwick could apply the soft-talk while lining their elegant pockets with silver . |
| 21 | Or are we seeing yet another example of the application of double standards , with Ministers providing no money for the public sector , while sending their own children to school in the private sector ? |
| 22 | Many people are in this situation of trying to find time to care adequately for parents in their own home , while running their own jobs and family . |
| 23 | The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases . |
| 24 | The Mauritanian Renewal Party ( PMR ) was led by Moulay al-Hassan Ould Jeydid , described as an engineer and former mayor of the northern town of Zouerate , who accused the PRDS of using state facilities , claiming that several ministers had become officials of the PRDS while retaining their ministerial privileges . |
| 25 | Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty-year-old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks . |
| 26 | One hundred and forty asthmatics ( 134 men and six women ; age range 21–76 years , mean ( SEM ) 54 ( 1.1 ) years ) were studied while taking their usual combinations of theophylline , trbutaline , inhalants , and prednisone . |
| 27 | For example , the distribution of the labour force between agriculture and industry has always been regarded as an important indicator of economic growth , if not precisely development , because most of the present advanced industrial societies , in particular the United Kingdom and the United States , exhibited a marked tendency to reduce their agricultural labour force while increasing their industrial labour force . |
| 28 | Large apparatus to climb into/out of/through/under/over , and push/pull toys of various sizes may help to give the children ideas of weight , speed , height , width and length , while increasing their spatial awareness . |
| 29 | Simultaneous statements issued by the UK Foreign Office and the Argentinian Foreign Ministry , while asserting their respective claims to oil and mineral rights , displayed a reluctance to jeopardize the improved climate and practical co-operation between the two countries [ for restoration of diplomatic relations in February 1990 see p. 37245 ] . |
| 30 | The communique issued by the participants stated that ‘ surplus countries committed themselves to following policies designed to strengthen domestic demand and to reducing external surpluses ’ and ‘ deficit countries committed themselves to encourage steady , low-inflation growth while reducing their domestic imbalances and external deficits . ’ |