Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) . |
| 2 | From her sensible shoes to her practical haircut , her appearance proclaims her membership of that generation of British women who survived the privations of wartime and went on to spend their lives in ungrumbling toil creating the now tarnished Jerusalem of the Welfare State . |
| 3 | The prospect of fresh elections marked a dramatic turnaround in political events following the military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in May [ see pp. 38894-95 ] . |
| 4 | At the same time the policy sets certain limits on house-building in rural areas allowing the erection of houses for agricultural workers , for family members working on a full-time basis on a family farm , and on a one-to-one replacement rule . |
| 5 | There were no cultural bureaucrats in State-subsidised theatres imposing the Brechtian avant-garde on uncomprehending audiences . |
| 6 | After two months of production delays due to ‘ unprecedented demand ’ and a shortage of chips , Elonex Plc has churned out 17 new models of personal computers from its factory in North London : these comprise eight types of upgradable Intel Corp 80486-based desktops with local video bus — price ranges from £1,100 to £1,750 ; two higher entry-level desktops based on Intel 's 80486SX-25 chip — the PC-425XM Entry Level and the PC-425XB Entry Level start at £1,100 and will replace the former 20MHz PC-420X Entry Level models ; four types of WS-400 upgradeable LAN workstations based on processors ranging from 25MHz 80486SX to 66MHz 80486DX2 with Ethernet modules based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc PCnet AT chip set ; a Token Ring module will be released in due course using the IBM Corp Tropic chip set ; prices start at £950 ; and three fault-tolerant mirrored file server systems based on Novell Inc NetWare SFT III v3.11 are planned ; Elonex also intends to ship modular notebook personal computers this month . |
| 7 | Loop in top growth using the fillis soft string , to prevent the head swaying about , check over for any broken or split damage and , finally , make quite sure that the identity label is legible and attached securely . |
| 8 | The player in top form approaching the event is Richard Wheeler from Gosfield Lake . |
| 9 | The vocabulary of moral and legal confrontation ( duty , obligation , rights , and so on ) is acquired in social contexts involving the recognition of ‘ give and take ’ . |
| 10 | Officers have been guarding inmates who can not be accommodated in overcrowded jails following the riots at Strangeways jail in Manchester . |
| 11 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
| 12 | Despite the evidence put forward by Soviet historians to assert a Marxist tradition in Latin America antedating the Russian revolution , it is difficult to draw any conclusion other than that Marxism as a basis for worker organisation became a significant force in the region , with few exceptions , in the wake of the Bolshevik triumph . |
| 13 | The records in the same section can not randomize to the same address , so that synonyms arise by records in different sections having the same remainder . |
| 14 | In public appearances marking the anniversary of the failed 1991 coup against the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev [ see p. 38368-73 ] which accelerated the break-up of the Soviet Union , Russian President Boris Yeltsin dismissed the possibility of a new coup , and stressed the need to press ahead with reform and privatization , foreseeing success despite the economic and administrative turmoil of the past year . |
| 15 | These ‘ philosophical naturalists ’ searched for the order of Nature not in natural laws of the kind familiar to the physicist , but in universal patterns linking the diverse forms of living structure , patterns that were seen as a direct product of the Creator 's rational thought . |
| 16 | In Africa Rommel 's forces had driven the weakened British units right back across Cyrenaica into Egypt , while the Balkans were firmly in German hands following the fall of Yugoslavia and Greece , and an invasion of Crete seemed imminent . |
| 17 | I have never made any secret of the fact that I believe that the future of Monktonhall lies in British Coal working the pit and we have said that from the start . |
| 18 | The relationship can also be viewed thermodynamically , there being a larger change in free energy accompanying the decomposition of an unstable mineral like olivine than a comparatively muscovite . |
| 19 | This surplus , combined with dramatically increasing Hungarian tourist spending in convertible currencies following the opening of the borders , was seen as the main reason for a convertible current-account deficit of $1,140 million compared with $591,000,000 in 1988 . |
| 20 | The parliamentary opposition party , the Byelarussian People 's Front , was in early March collecting the 350,000 signatures needed by law to support a proposal for a referendum . |
| 21 | The FT-SE 100 soared more than 25 points in early dealings taking the Index smoothly through 2,700 to 2713.4 , only 24 points below its record high . |
| 22 | These were expressed in schematic diagrams showing the relationship between building development and open land . |
| 23 | They sat together like an old married couple in separate armchairs facing the screen . |
| 24 | Martin was a specialist in vast canvases showing the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah , Belshazzar 's Feast with the Writing on the Wall , and such apocalyptic scenes ; and his frontispiece is suitably dramatic , though small . |
| 25 | Indeed , a series of bad harvests in the 1350s and 1360s , which increased food prices , may have been partly responsible for deferring the increase in real wages following the Black Death . |
| 26 | Not a ripple of turbulence disturbed the climb to 5000 ft where a slow orbit brought a stunning panorama of Cumbrian mountains rising like whales from a misty sea , the Galloway , Pennine and Howgill hills all etched in fine outline catching the first sun . |
| 27 | In conventional radiocarbon dating the maximum age that can be measured is determined by the count rate , additional to that from 14 C , caused by radiation in the environment . |
| 28 | Their L-shaped living rooms were graced by open fireplaces , with the latest shapes in petrified wood adorning the mantelpieces . |
| 29 | They sat for a moment in glum accord watching the evening thicken outside . |
| 30 | Reginald de Grey reckoned every Welshman a thief and an outlaw , and had his borders patrolled as though against the entire army of France , in great measure creating the animosity and disorder he saw everywhere ; and this company might be no more than a routine patrol meant to impress and intimidate on his usual terms . |