Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 2 | Previously , on the basis of very sparse data , estimates of the sidereal axial period ranged from +15 days to +224.701 days , the upper limit equalling the sidereal orbital period . |
| 3 | He went to the 1928 Olympics , equalling the 100 yards record in the semi-final . |
| 4 | Taylor will then need convincing shows in the USA before the FA would give him another four years , equalling the eight-year reign of Bobby Robson . |
| 5 | And his hat-trick for Wales earlier this month against the Faroe Islands puts him on 23 goals for his country — equalling the Welsh record held jointly by Trevor Ford and Ivor Allchurch . |
| 6 | Overtopping the six waiting Titans of the Warlord class stood the solitary Emperor Titan — turtle head protruding , one plasma cannon held rampant . |
| 7 | City : Why Tokyo is tumbling The Japanese stock market has halved in value since 1989 . |
| 8 | In Eastern Distributors v. Goldring the original owner ( the customer ) clearly intended to make the deception . |
| 9 | Some were already sprouting feathers and were busily preening the new growth , some were sleeping off their last feed of fish , while others were food-begging from every bird within reach . |
| 10 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 11 | There will be times when courses , seminars , workshops and secondments will be the appropriate vehicles for transmitting the relevant material , especially when new practices have been tried and tested . |
| 12 | If this seems too scandalous an idea , as it is for many people , it can be modified without damage to Freud 's other theories , and the cultures of human societies may be seen as transmitting the repressed material of earlier generations to the present one . |
| 13 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 14 | The intelligentsia has an enhanced role in creating and transmitting the new national culture through a national educational system . |
| 15 | There can be little doubt that these are Naxian works , deeply influenced by the East Greek style and transmitting the first impression of that style to Athens where soon , as everywhere , its influence was to become pervasive . |
| 16 | Delaunay used to meet Picasso at the gatherings at the Douanier Rousseau 's , while Metzinger was a frequent visitor to Picasso 's studio in the Bateau Lavoir during the early years of Cubism , and was an important agent in transmitting the first discoveries of Picasso and Braque . |
| 17 | Frequently , too , such people have been blessed with the ‘ sixth sense ’ , their quiet mind automatically transmitting the hungry intentions of a hidden tiger for example , for all creatures are linked at the level of the mind , as well as soul . |
| 18 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 19 | First , there is the problem of transmitting the huge volumes of data and managing it on its way through a network to users . |
| 20 | In Britain it is the curriculum which bears the main burden of transmitting the national idea . |
| 21 | And when he went on teaching practice , Liang Heng found himself transmitting the same old dogma : ‘ The blind obedience that made the Cultural Revolution possible was being fostered still . |
| 22 | Earnings analysis is concerned with forecasting the future earnings patterns of firms . |
| 23 | The accounting-based approach involves forecasting the entire balance sheet . |
| 24 | Brokers are already forecasting the 1993 pre-tax profits to be between £3.3m and £3.5m . |
| 25 | MUCH has been said in the Steam Railway press about the financial and management trouble of the ‘ Mid-Hants Railway ’ , some of it even forecasting the forthcoming demise of the Watercress Line . |
| 26 | Between 1976 and 1986 the average error in the Treasury 's forecasting of the PSBR ( whether negative or positive ) was £2.3 billion , and in the 1983 edition of the Treasury 's Financial Statement and Budget Report it was estimated that the average error in forecasting the public sector borrowing requirement for the year ahead was ofthe order of 1.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 27 | The second feature is a protection mechanism that stops NetWare Loadable Modules from crashing the entire server , by adding memory protection . |
| 28 | Second , there is the issue of what is to happen to Lord Denning 's tidal wave of European law , crashing the national barriers and submerging the legal and constitutional independence of the nation state . |
| 29 | Barely registering Gwen 's horrified face , she turned and whirled out , crashing the back door against the wall so hard that the echoes seemed to follow her fleeing figure . |
| 30 | But the rest of A View is formulated to transform readers ' approval to Irenius without loosing Spenser 's claims to be pursuing the Irish question in an impartial philosophic way . |