Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the last decade of the eighteenth century there is evidence that the wider powers of the Church , even in rural England , were weakening rather than enhancing its spiritual authority . |
| 2 | Restoring confidence in London 's financial centre will be harder than fixing its bomb-damaged buildings |
| 3 | Rather than having its own satellites , AFSAT uses transponders ( relay devices ) on several spacecraft of different types . |
| 4 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 5 | The government of Ecuador is seriously considering sending its armed forces on a major exercise in the Galapagos Islands . |
| 6 | It spells out categorically that the golden days when the Government could cut taxes and repay debt while financing its economic policies by taxing North Sea oil and selling state assets have gone for ever . |
| 7 | The present concern for sport as polling day approaches is typical of how politicians are adept at using the subject for short-term gain while ignoring its long-term problems . |
| 8 | However , NATO would remain a defensive alliance and must continue to provide for the common defence , while enhancing its political component . |
| 9 | Overall , the company will invest $1,600m on new plants and equipment this year , while expanding its US-based manufacturing workforce by about 18% . |
| 10 | The bombings appeared to indicate a new strategy of bombing tourist complexes while observing its declared suspension of military activities . |
| 11 | But this analysis concentrates unduly upon the intellectual content of nationalism , while neglecting its social sources , and it attributes to intellectuals an exaggerated importance as leaders of nationalist movements . |
| 12 | The EEC 's attitude is somewhat baffling to the Višegrad trade negotiators : it lectures them on the merits of free trade , while closing its own markets . |
| 13 | In her densely argued and complex paper , Hodge points out that one can distinguish between the subject , a notion with ontological and metaphysical commitments , and subjectivity , an empiricist notion ( developed , for example , by Hume ) which retains its epistemological function while abandoning its ontological links . |
| 14 | I have tried to show how such an approach is necessary if language teaching is to draw maximal benefits from developments in the informing disciplines while retaining its own identity as a domain of enquiry which has to meet its own conditions of relevance and accountability . |
| 15 | Since 1947 the O'Neill family has owned this fine Georgian building into which they have introduced the highest standards of comfort while retaining its original character and creating an atmosphere of charm and warmth . |
| 16 | In water , it splits like a spider 's web into gossamer strands while retaining its basic strength . |
| 17 | Withdrawal from the Coalition Government was critical if the process was to go any further : how could Labour make genuinely independent peace overtures to the German socialists while retaining its direct involvement in the Lloyd George Government ? |
| 18 | Draught Guinness is well positioned to meet the current consumer trend for sophisticated premium products , while retaining its enviable heritage and tradition in the black beer market . |
| 19 | What the Festival was looking for , she says , was a completely new corporate identity to simultaneously reflect the changes in the Festival while reinforcing its perceived strengths . |
| 20 | Conflict keeps the organisation sensitive to the need to change , while reinforcing its essential framework of control . |
| 21 | Personally , while admitting its close relation to the ‘ true ’ Lyrical Ballads , I prefer to describe this as a commemorative poem , related to the large number of poems ‘ On the Naming of Places ’ and the poems ‘ written on tour ’ ( see p. 122 ) . |
| 22 | Nozick wants to unroll this sceptical argument while admitting its first move , and it is the argument from error that forces that admission . |
| 23 | content with the policy of the Communist Party and its tactics in the United Front had grown in the ILP to an extent which caused many of its remaining members to adopt the theoretical arguments of Trotskyism while resenting its organized activities . |
| 24 | As its name implies , it has affinities with Realism , while rejecting its simpler canons . |
| 25 | The North receives a kind of colonial tribute in debt service , whilst getting its raw materials at rock-bottom prices . |
| 26 | The Grand offers many modern facilities whilst retaining its Victorian grandeur . |
| 27 | The Party , whilst retaining its formal prerogatives in the military-security field is in fact alleged to be increasingly hostage to the technical competence of what Frunze once called the ‘ brain of the Army ’ : an organisation with the expertise as well as the staff support to determine the framework within which issues are discussed and decisions taken . |
| 28 | The workshops at Kingsmere carry out all maintenance work on the railway as well as building its rolling stock . |
| 29 | The ideal model helps to differentiate the workforce ( by age , sex and colour ) according to how far different groups approximate to the model and can be seen as representing its exemplary qualities of commitment and reliability . |
| 30 | A GRAND is the average amount that a British family pays out when booking its annual holiday package . |