Example sentences of "marking the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat sped faster and faster , between two lanes of massive wooden tripods , marking the deep-water channel through the shallows of the lagoon . |
| 2 | Possibly for ceremonies marking the annual seasons but no one can be sure . |
| 3 | This is well exemplified in Fokine 's choreography fur the first Nocturne in Les Sylphides , where it can be said that the corps de ballet are marking the overall rhythm lasting sixteen or thirty-two bars , whilst the three soloists represent the shorter rhythmical phrases lasting four to ) eight bars . |
| 4 | Following a resolution taken at a conference of the Council of Museums , celebrations will take place in 1995 marking the 2,500th anniversary of one of the oldest Eastern cities in the world , Bukhara in Uzbekistan . |
| 5 | It would not be cast by marking the familiar X opposite the name of a single candidate . |
| 6 | Below them , and clearly marking the low-tide level , extended a perennial covering of pink crustose algae ( Lithothamnion , Lithophyllum ) . |
| 7 | This consists of marking the key word or phrase that you wish to emphasise with a felt marker pen . |
| 8 | This is the first of the year 's four major championships , still in many ways marking the official start of the season — for all the tournaments that have preceded it . |
| 9 | A dense fog descended on the field and I found myself isolated at left-half marking the right winger — yes , it was some years ago ! |
| 10 | The announcement came as a shock because they and other political observers had expected Mr Ben Ali to announce moves towards liberalisation in a speech he gave yesterday marking the second anniversary of his coming to power . |
| 11 | Some of the words of Ms Galron 's song , which explores the theme of guilt and responsibility for the uprising while Tel Aviv makes merry , were read out in the Knesset yesterday in the course of a stormy debate marking the second anniversary of the intifada . |
| 12 | YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising . |
| 13 | YITZHAK Rabin was looking even more than usually impassive on Wednesday night as he watched Israel Television 's special programme marking the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising . |
| 14 | The mountain everlasting ( Antennaria dioica ) with its dainty little furry flowers is known in Gaelic as literally ‘ cat 's paw ’ , while the marsh marigold ( Caltha palustris ) is known as ‘ the yellow plant of Beltane ’ , for it makes its appearance at Beltane , May first , thus marking the second half of the ancient Celtic year . |
| 15 | On the same day large numbers of troops were deployed in Yangon to deter demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the SLORC coup . |
| 16 | The Tokyo stock exchange fell more than 650 points in January , representing the largest one-day fall since the October 1987 world stock market crash [ see pp. 35740-42 ] , and tumbled further throughout February , plummeting by 4.5 per cent ( 1,569 points ) on Feb. 26 , marking the second largest one-day fall . |
| 17 | The letters , they showed a progress through that summer , marking the enchanted moments , the highlights , where pride and vanity could not now be separated from notions of love . |
| 18 | The move coincided with the publication of a catalogue marking the fifth anniversary of their firm . |
| 19 | The far-reaching reorganization of the government had been foreshadowed in Babangida 's address broadcast on Aug. 27 , marking the fifth anniversary of his taking power , when he said that " we shall from now on systematically deregulate and demilitarize the process of politics and governance in the period leading to 1992 " and that his adminstration had become " critically conscious of the need to start the process " . |
| 20 | The far-reaching reorganization of the government had been foreshadowed in Babangida 's address broadcast on Aug. 27 , marking the fifth anniversary of his taking power , when he said that " we shall from now on systematically deregulate and demilitarize the process of politics and governance in the period leading to 1992 " and that his adminstration had become " critically conscious of the need to start the process " . |
| 21 | President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , in a speech marking the fifth anniversary of his assumption of power on Nov. 7 , 1987 , announced reforms of the civil service , but failed to announce a timetable for multiparty democracy . |
| 22 | The expansion of the middle-class was one aspect of the great increase in population marking the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | By 1905 , all makers of prerecorded cylinders were marking the actual cylinders with titles by means of a professional lettering process , though the techniques used varied widely from company to company ( 29 ) . |
| 24 | In the speech , marking the 28th anniversary of Malawi 's independence , he also stated that there were " only 11 detainees remaining in our prisons today " . |
| 25 | There I had been present at the celebrations marking the Golden Jubilee of St Joseph 's College , Sasse , ( pronounced Sassay ) , where I used to teach . |
| 26 | THE special mass marking the golden jubilee of Bishop Joseph Gray 's ordination to the priesthood will be held in Birkenhead next Friday , not yesterday , as indicated in yesterday 's Daily Post . |
| 27 | An exhibition of the work of landscape painter Giovanni Paolo Pannini , marking the 300th anniversary of his birth , opens on 16 October . |
| 28 | The Second World War tore across this historically accelerating century , breaking up families , eroding class systems and challenging sexual mores , but at the same time marking the post-Holocaust , post-Hiroshima age . |
| 29 | Traditional Ibicenco houses cluster around a fascinating 16th century church , marking the highest point of the village . |
| 30 | Includes the UK 's recent commemorative series marking the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Sir Richard Owen 's coining of the word dinosaur . |