Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it seems to be a general rule that organisms acquire new capacities by modifying existing structures rather than by inventing wholly new ones . |
| 2 | Using mostly commercial housepaint , his work is process-generated and involves pouring and intervention . |
| 3 | To identify a new chairperson for the board , or to derive full value from bringing on those trustees , five years is too short . |
| 4 | A strip of electrician 's tape stuck round both sides of the base to make them waterproof and they 're ideal for bringing on any bulbs destined for the windowsill . |
| 5 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 6 | cos they were using right that , no the deal has n't lapsed that 's what we were trying to do |
| 7 | Strict logical positivists only have two categories for the logical status of propositions : a proposition is either verifiable or falsifiable , using empirically observable and measurable , variables ; or it is a mystical , poetic , emotional insight . |
| 8 | First , they extend its existing range , studying female subjects in areas which have previously been researched using predominantly male samples . |
| 9 | It has , however , come to represent the ‘ norm ’ in technical writing to such a degree that , even if a writer was not particularly interested in giving an impression of objectivity , s/he would find it difficult to break away from the convention of using predominantly passive structures in technical writing . |
| 10 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |
| 11 | Diocesan resources are in part historically determined — the older dioceses like Lincoln , Canterbury and Winchester enjoying rather more riches than their modern counterparts — but all derive a considerable part of their revenue from allocated parochial contributions . |
| 12 | The literary lives of Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell ran parallel through the 1930s and 1940s , and they met only once — in 1949 — the meeting proving wholly unmemorable , as it happens , for its conversation . |
| 13 | But in the second half of the eleventh century and in the early twelfth , liege homage was still a new and growing force in France and England : an experiment which was proving widely acceptable as a solution to the intolerable problem of divided loyalties . |
| 14 | Using wholly incompatible weapons systems and riven by language difficulties , the troops lack the capacity to fight as coordinated units . |
| 15 | It is the service sector , producing little foreign currency , that has swollen . |
| 16 | It is not said , however , that at around the same time in Georgian England a woman , Angelica Kauffman , had arrived on the London art scene and was proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter . |
| 17 | In 1766 she arrived in London to become one of the leading figures in the art world of London , not only proving remarkably successful as a portrait painter , but winning high esteem in the most prestigious form of painting — history painting , namely large-scale compositions based on historical and mythological subjects which provided a lesson in heroism , tragedy or morality . |
| 18 | Glaxo Group Research , part of one of the world 's largest pharmaceuticals groups , has pioneered a childminding scheme which is proving remarkably popular with employees . |
| 19 | Despite what brewers ' architects often allege , the life expectancy of such plastic window units is proving remarkably short — as little as five years for the fittings , and twenty years for the plastic itself , which is exhibiting distinct tendencies to warp and discolour with age . |
| 20 | Andrew Holden , joint secretary of the Northern Examining Association , said : ‘ We will be looking at the position and seeing whether we think it is worthwhile to offer a similar scheme or whether we would prefer to cut the general level of fees so that we are competing on even terms . ’ |
| 21 | The modem software is Bitcom , which allows file transfers using most popular protocols and fits the modems spec well . |
| 22 | The Supreme Soviet passed legislation on May 29 allowing wholly foreign-owned companies to operate in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | However , this was soon extended by using spare areas on the payroll files for personnel information and maintaining wholly separate data files containing information on absence and leavers . |
| 24 | He had set his heart on punching tickets and helping little old ladies on and off the bus , but he was spurned . |
| 25 | What was involved in this extension of structural linguistics was a profound alteration of perspective in most of the human sciences ; it was no longer a question of gathering empirically verifiable data ; of turning a positivist gaze onto a world of objects , but it meant seeing forms of expression as signs whose meanings depend on conventions , relations and systems , rather than on any inherent features . |
| 26 | Although glutamate is one amongst many dozens of transmitters , it itself interacts with postsynaptic cells in several different ways ; there are at least three different types of postsynaptic glutamate receptor , each differently distributed amongst cells responsive to glutamate , each with rather different pharmacological properties and each producing rather different types of postsynaptic responses . |
| 27 | These were introduced into Persia and Anatolia in the late 19th century , but proved to be totally unsuitable for rug yarns , producing rather crude colours that were given to rapid fading . |
| 28 | A number of other experimental studies , all using rather similar techniques , are described by Labov in two separate publications ( Labov 1972d ; 1975 ) . |
| 29 | Although Bouton and his collaborators have failed to establish context-specificity after simple conditioning , they would not want to claim that such an effect can never be seen — there is ample evidence from experiments using rather different training procedures that a change of context can produce a performance deficit . |
| 30 | The result of these rules of practice was that the English set up colonies only in places where it was relatively easy to do so , at first because the places they went to were thinly populated , then because political disintegration in India enabled them to advance there , and because in the last phase of imperial expansion they had the sort of technological superiority needed for bringing most African rulers under their control . |