Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , we interpreted this as being the result of cytoplasmic staining overlying the nucleus , rather than nuclear staining . |
| 2 | The surf here is renowned , with a stream of persistent youngsters fighting the elements to ride the waves . |
| 3 | Under the title ‘ Tender is the North ’ suggestive of saunas and birch twigs London is hosting a festival of Scandinavian culture encompassing the visual arts , music , literature and drama . |
| 4 | Soaring like a sharp wedge , its sandstone rocks have defied the storms of ages but have been split and shattered into a succession of strange pinnacles requiring the skill of rockclimbers to surmount although , by trial and error , walkers can make progress by avoiding the crest of the ridge in places of difficulty , using stony gullies for descent and re-ascent . |
| 5 | Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time . |
| 6 | Consumers worried by credit-card debt and authors of economic blockbusters predicting the collapse of the American financial system will take heart from something that appears in Grant 's Interest Rate Observer , one of the most highly-regarded investment publications in the States . |
| 7 | In both chapters we begin with descriptive material and then move on to issues of economic importance involving the institutions . |
| 8 | A series of geological maps covering the buried marble area of north-west New Territories was published . |
| 9 | The cerebellum is located at the top of the brainstem below the cerebrum , and works as a sort of administrative computer regulating the rate , sequence and force of motor movements . |
| 10 | This on the contrary is the work of political genius requiring the ripest wisdom and the freshest vigour , and it is done with an elegance and a style that will compel and will receive an instinctive respect throughout the civilized world . |
| 11 | Public choice theory is an approach to the study of political decision-making using the tools of orthodox economic theory ( of the type discussed in Chapter 3 , section 3.2 ) . |
| 12 | In its beginnings , therefore , modern nationalism can be seen as one aspect of a class movement which found political expression in a general struggle for democracy ; manifesting itself most clearly in the American Revolution — interpreted by some scholars as the formation of the ‘ first new nation ’ ( Lipset , 1967 ) — and in the French Revolution , which together established the model of a new kind of political system embodying the ideas of ‘ citizenship ’ and ‘ popular sovereignty ’ . |
| 13 | They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters . |
| 14 | It was also reported that the Odinga faction met legal difficulties when attempting to have the results of its internal elections validated , the Matiba group having lodged a complaint with the registrar of political parties questioning the legitimacy of the Odinga congress . |
| 15 | Russia and central Asian states were alarmed by the possibility of Islamic forces gaining the upper hand in the current conflict . |
| 16 | Hanging baskets with bright geraniums decorated the higher balconies and the courtyard had been turned into a spectacular garden , tubs of potted plants adorning the old paving . |
| 17 | A series of four handbooks for people in international publishing , each including a checklist of topic-related terminology , models of documents showing authentic use of terminology , case histories of specific situations requiring the use of the terminology , language in context giving guidance on use of certain terms and the avoidance of pitfalls , and a glossary presented as an alphabetic index to relevant pages and providing help with pronunciation where clarification might be useful because of usage or differences between arts of speech . |
| 18 | , Levels of ultra-violet rays reaching the surface of Antarctica in late 1990 were the highest ever recorded , according to measurements at the US Antarctic Scientific Program 's Palmer Station , on the Antarctic Peninsula . |
| 19 | Higher levels of ultra-violet radiation reaching the earth will also lead to annual totals of 1.6 million eye cataracts and 300,000 cases of skin cancer every century , the report predicts . |
| 20 | For the next half-hour we watched hundreds of Allied planes bombing the town of Caen a few miles away from our positions . |
| 21 | All this , of course , is during a time of exaggerated relief following the Pleistocene glaciation . |
| 22 | Title V rules out for ever a return to the alternative : a degree of foreign-policy alignment reflecting the reality of diverging national interests and a European Community whose members express their friendship and community of interests by cooperating through the most effective available means . |
| 23 | We can also begin to see the broad outlines of a much longer connected history of respectable fears surrounding the demoralising influences of popular amusements . |
| 24 | Considering each member of the series of hypothetical Ks connecting the human eye to no eye at all , is it plausible that every one of them was made available by random mutation of its predecessor ? |
| 25 | Created during the five months which the artist spent in Santa Fe at the end of last year and the beginning of this year , they are executed in oil inks applied by brush or rollers and smudged by Healey 's hand , their veils of rich colour capturing the mood of , rather than representing , the broad landscape of New Mexico and its dawn and dusk effects . |
| 26 | chiming Terry Bickers-produced debut EP reissued in the wake of strenuous rumours suggesting the band are to split up |
| 27 | See the first iron bridge ever built , and a series of working museums illustrating the skills and industries of the 18th and 19th centuries . |
| 28 | The move was seen to be due to the normalization of church-state relations following the establishment of the Solidarity-led government . |
| 29 | Yesterday , Mr Pignatelli reported that Mr McNeill said he had oversimplified ‘ the very complex matter of possible factors affecting the occurrence of handicap ’ to make it more easily understood by the public . |
| 30 | This is noticeable in his regular use of metalinguistic directives demanding the attention of his interlocutors ( for example , " Now look here … " ( p. 65 ) and " now listen to me … ( p. 69 ) ) and his emphatic use of what Searle terms " illocutionary force indicating devices " 1969 : 30 ) or IFID 's ( as abbreviated by Levinson 1983 ) when making his demands . |