Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 March , 1986 , the 29.9% ceiling on the outside ownership of Stock Exchange firms was abolished altogether , thereby allowing a single non-member to own 100% of a member firm . |
| 2 | I hope that this book provides others with insights , thereby enabling a scientific consensus to emerge . |
| 3 | One of the most important aspects of bereavement help is perhaps enabling a grieving person to talk about their negative thoughts as well as their sad thoughts ( which are the ones it is presumed we want to hear ) . |
| 4 | The Reds , only having a small area to defend could communicate with each other and knew how to defeat the Whites . |
| 5 | He was obviously making a great effort to cope with a load of premature responsibility . |
| 6 | The Cairngorm chairlift people are obviously making a great effort to try and limit the damage caused by erosion , by constantly replanting the worn areas with grass seed . |
| 7 | TV campaigner Esther Rantzen was tonight announcing a political initiative to back her call for a nationwide witness protection programme . |
| 8 | I was just having a little experiment to see how it takes and how strong it is and I know what I 'm doing . |
| 9 | And — not having a big ego to get in the way — viewing the world and its inhabitants with a penetrating intelligence . |
| 10 | The Doctor talked about ‘ the police ’ as having little control , and ‘ as yet ’ not having a scientific methodology to investigate crimes . |
| 11 | By then England were 214 for 7 , only Allan Lamb , desperately needing a big score to stay in the team , having given the scorers much exercise . |
| 12 | The Irish hierarchy are not anticipating a miraculous recovery to form this season . |
| 13 | Sometimes it was like a sit-com , where two characters refuse to speak directly to each other , always using a third party to pass on comments . |
| 14 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 15 | The Solid Fuel Advisory Service advises that whilst uncapping and unblocking both ends may be simple d-i-y jobs , most people would be better off asking a qualified sweep to have a look at the flue before any work is started — especially as it is good sense to have the chimney thoroughly swept before any work starts to remove soot or old bird 's nests . |
| 16 | The addition of this weakling to the family of Test nations will seen them merely tolerated as non-profitable visitors , lower on the scale even than Sri Lanka , who are still awaiting a first invitation to play West Indies after 10 years of Test status . |
| 17 | The aim of this is to use the Fibre Channel to share the processing of complex applications , such as stock market analyses among clustered computers — effectively providing a physical layer to underlie the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 18 | In turning the Polish armies back , the Red Army crossed the border and advanced on Warsaw , vainly expecting a Polish rising to support its advance . |
| 19 | This method of repeatedly deploying a stretched string to plot the light rays and thus ascertain selected points on an image was incorporated into the perspective machines described by Leonardo and Dürer . |
| 20 | When did you ever put me first in your life ? ’ he demanded angrily , before taking a deep breath and clearly making a determined effort to pull himself together . |
| 21 | US law enforcement officers are also planning a renewed drive to encourage cable subscribers to drop HBO and Cinemax . |
| 22 | Sefa-Dedeh is now developing a simple process to prepare a high protein food from cereals and legumes . |
| 23 | The Society are now seeking a skilled modeller to carry out this work and have undertaken to bear the costs involved . |
| 24 | Gravel for use over undergravel filter plates comes in a very wide choice of materials and sizes , often having a high price to match . |
| 25 | ‘ We were extremely impressed with the sincerity of the members , who have clearly come to realise that many of their problems in the past were alcohol-related and who are now making a determined effort to come to terms with their problem . |
| 26 | The Abbey is now planning a fifth mailshot to alert them to their windfalls . |
| 27 | At least I had the money , painfully scraped together with a view to eventually taking a PGCE-TEFL course to upgrade my qualifications and enable me to escape from Clive 's power . |
| 28 | Two other key Senate committees ( appropriations and foreign operations ) subsequently aligned themselves with the intelligence committee , thereby creating a powerful lobby to push for a change in policy . |
| 29 | Upon completion of the hot whisky order the women planned to ask for fifteen pints thereby coercing a reluctant publican to serve women pints . |
| 30 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |