Example sentences of "marking the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | MacCabe and Heath had studied in Paris , and Signs of the Times has its niche in postwar cultural history , marking the first major re-entry of French intellectual influences since Eliot 's adherence to Remy de Gourmont and the French neoclassicists , half a century earlier . |
| 32 | He was launching his report , the Lessons of Lockerbie , marking the first anniversary of the Pan Am jumbo jet blast . |
| 33 | The Professional Aviation Jet Prop DC-3 from the Republic of South Africa ( marking the first time the RSA has ever displayed an aircraft at Farnborough ) employs the Schafer/Aero Modifications International design ( first flown in the US in August 1986 ) and they have been ‘ building ’ examples since 1991 . |
| 34 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 35 | Apollo 2 ( to Dec ) Marking the twentieth anniversary of man 's first step on the moon ; various exhibits , aeronautical clothes , a model of the original launch vehicle and the inevitable piece of moon rock . |
| 36 | You can select the required field name from the form , if this is different from the current value , by marking the required field name or by inputting an appropriate index . |
| 37 | After decades of speculation , the existence of a major thrust fault probably marking the concealed Variscan Front under the Mesozoic rocks of southern England was finally demonstrated by the IGS ( now BGS ) five years ago ( Kenolty et al. 1981 ) . |
| 38 | His plea came in a speech to nearly 5,000 delegates at a congress marking the final stage of the two-year process to merge his ruling Zanu-PF party and Joshua Nkomo 's Zapu . |
| 39 | A rather grand certificate marking the successful completion of all the tasks also adds to the attraction . |
| 40 | SOC Premier Hun Sen on Jan. 7 told a National Day rally ( marking the 12th anniversary of the overthrow of the Pol Pot regime ) in Prey Veng Province that , although hopes of a settlement " were founded , the solution remains remote " . |
| 41 | The ANC on Jan. 8 , in a statement marking the 79th anniversary of its founding , proposed the convening of an all-party congress which would draft the broad principles of a new constitution . |
| 42 | ‘ I would love to see only flowers marking the geographical border across the city , ’ said Mrs Kalina Morvina , mayor of Valga . |
| 43 | The mid '60s were a turning point in sports car design , marking the virtual end of the front-engined sports cars in place of the new mid-engined models of which the Dino Berlinetta Speciale was one of the pioneers . |
| 44 | On May 3 , Dai Qing and a number of Chinese intellectuals , marking the 70th anniversary of the May 4 Movement , called on the Party to continue with the liberal reforms and supported the demands of the students . |
| 45 | The following day King Birendra addressed a rally in Kathmandu marking the 29th anniversary of the abolition of multiparty government and its replacement by a non-party system . |
| 46 | The 25 ft statue marking the 40th anniversary of the People 's Republic of China is an altogether different creature from its smashed predecessor . |
| 47 | Jiang 's visit to the Soviet Union was the first by a CCP general secretary since Mao Zedong 's 1957 visit to Moscow for celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution [ see pp. 15899-902 ] . |
| 48 | A total of 13 people were reportedly injured and 90 others arrested following violent confrontations with riot police during ceremonies and demonstrations on Sept. 11 , marking the 17th anniversary of Allende 's death . |
| 49 | Above : Marking the Soviet entry into the jet era was the Yak–15 which used many Yak–3 components coupled to a new extended forward fuselage housing a 900kg thrust RD–10 jet engine , based on the Jumo 004B . |
| 50 | A theatre group is marking the seventy fifth anniversary of Armistice Day by staging a gala performance of Oh What A Lovely War . |
| 51 | The armed forces were reconstituted on June 5 , 1990 , to comprise the land forces , the Air Force , the Navy and the gendarmerie , marking the formal dissolution of all paramilitary and militia units . |
| 52 | When New Yorkers first got word that war had started , those not glued to TV sets gravitated to Times Square , where little more than two weeks earlier a cheering crowd had watched the descent of a red , white and blue ball marking the dwindling seconds of 1990 . |
| 53 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 54 | President Hafez al-Assad on March 8 , in a speech to a youth rally marking the 27th anniversary of the accession to power of the Baath Party , appeared to confirm these reports . |
| 55 | Stars of the film world have been marking the eightieth birthday of one of the giants of British cinema . |
| 56 | Another equally interesting way of marking the rhythmic beat occurs in Fokine 's Carnaval when Columbine dances to the semi-quavers and Harlequin to the quavers as they enter side by side . |
| 57 | In Symphonic Variations , the dancers perform pas de bourrée piquës sur les pointes very gently because they are marking the rhythmic beat as the soloist dances to the melodic phrase . |
| 58 | The correct way to cut this type of joint is right through the two points where the sections of border intersect , although care must be exercised to avoid marking the main wallcovering where it would show . |
| 59 | They either function as addressees , marking the important " conversational " or " interpersonal " character of the Odes , or they are figures from the world of gods and heroes . |
| 60 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |