Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are tackling a very big warren it is probable that only the most likely of the bolt-holes will have been fitted with purse nets , simply because insufficient nets are available . |
| 2 | The first database produced in a school library may be deliberately small in size , and provide an opportunity to examine all angles of creation and use before tackling a much larger subject . |
| 3 | Samsung has clearly decided it 's make or break time for the company in the UK PC market , launching a completely new range of low cost machines and adding a couple of new laser printers to boot . |
| 4 | Her hair was cut aggressively short , accentuating the sharp point of her jaw and she was cradling a very small baby . |
| 5 | The new design results from the transition to transverse engines on the Safrane , necessitating a very compact gearbox layout . |
| 6 | They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own . |
| 7 | Despite representing a normally staunch Democrat state , being under investigation by a host of law enforcement agencies for various instances of corruption and abuse of power and tarred with The Bush Factor Thing , this abrasive native Noo Yawker was running neck and neck with his Democrat rival , attorney-general Robert Abrams . |
| 8 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 9 | Representing a more traditional form of British cinema , John Schlesinger 's Madame Sousatzka ( Virgin ) has a stand-out performance by Shirley MacLaine and a keen eye for varied London locations , while A Time Of Destiny ( Vestron ) is a baroque romantic melodrama from Gregory Nava ( El Norte ) , which despite the miscasting of William Hurt as a Basque immigrant 's son seemed to me to have been unfairly downgraded . |
| 10 | The Fijian Nationalist United Front ( FNUF ) , described as representing a more conservative version of FPP policies , won five of the 37 Fijian seats , and independents the remaining two . |
| 11 | Against this background , Conservatives should say : too many prison sentences are given to the wrong people ( eg alcoholics ) ; prison regimes are too often wrong , with prisoners staying inside in relatively soft conditions for relatively long sentences ; too often violent criminals do not get sent to prison as they should ; for young thugs short spells are advocated in glasshouse-type detention centres with a very tough physical regime ( but good food ) ; otherwise there should be a greater emphasis on fines , representing a more humane and economical approach . |
| 12 | Critical of the discrimination suffered by Afro-Mauritanians and Haratin — the Moorish former slaves — Ould Daddah was seen as representing a more pluralist view of Mauritania 's identity than the Arabo-Islamism of Ould Taya . |
| 13 | Henry Wendt , 58 , chairman , picked up £1.8m , an increase of 93 p.c. while Bob Bauman , 60 , chief executive , collected £1.7m , representing a more modest 3½ p.c. increase in his total package . |
| 14 | Thus it is the physicists and medical specialists with a strong background in physics , along with electronics engineers , who form the vanguard of this thrust , which has been shown particularly effective in predicting illness prior to its becoming a pathologically apparent condition . |
| 15 | It has to cool a little and you must pour off excess juices , then it is turned out , becoming a rather tropical tarte tatin , sitting inches high on the puff pastry . |
| 16 | It was becoming a desperately serious problem . |
| 17 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't you think you 're becoming a little paranoid , Shae ? |
| 19 | By the late 1870s Leslie ( and many critics ) felt that some of his singers were ‘ becoming a little ropy ’ and that he himself was tired and stale . |
| 20 | Did she detect a conspiracy , or was she becoming a little oversensitive ? she wondered . |
| 21 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 22 | By this stage the reader may be becoming a little uneasy . |
| 23 | What with the addition of new capabilities to spreadsheets , and the advent of products which push back the frontiers of the electronic spreadsheet concept , it 's becoming a little difficult to draw a line between spreadsheet products and more elaborate financial modelling environments . |
| 24 | It is now becoming a generally acknowledged fact that the Undertakers in England have too long neglected the importance of sanitation as applied to their own profession . |
| 25 | In the same way it knows enough to tuck itself well out of harm 's way in the face of physical threat , so becoming a much smaller target for an irate wife with a meat cleaver who suspects it of getting exercise elsewhere . |
| 26 | Caroline , said the goose-girl crisply , was not prepared to follow Comrade Andrew 's prescriptions towards becoming a really useful cadre , but had ( Muriel thought , and therefore Andrew must think ) tendencies towards liberal idealism . |
| 27 | Not for the first time she wondered cynically whether she craved Tyler Blacklock because he was tall , darkly handsome and unattainable , or because he was fast becoming a very rich and influential man . |
| 28 | Saunders added : ‘ It is becoming a very good team with the defence looking really solid . ’ |
| 29 | Add to all that the claim that Leeds has more parkland than any other city in Britain , plus a wealth of historical architecture which dates back to 1152 , and it 's hardly surprising that England 's third largest city is now fast becoming a very popular UK holiday destination . |
| 30 | She had been a champion skater at St Moritz , until her pilot husband had rescued her from what was becoming a very dreary grind . |