Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Minister believe that a vitally important stabilisation fund for Russia can be made to work successfully without tackling the problems of food supply in Russian markets , especially when we consider the consequences for money supply and wage inflation ? |
| 2 | These courses are a very important initiative not just for this diocese but for the whole country at a time when we need to find new ways of helping lay people and priests to work together in furthering the mission of the church . |
| 3 | ‘ This will allow us to concentrate more on developing the growth potential of our remaining newspapers operations . ’ |
| 4 | This ease of discourse and assumption of shared experience is encoded for the reader , who does not have to work hard in processing the referent of the definite description " the distant woods ' . |
| 5 | Goffman 's notion of footing seems to come closest to encapsulating the complex of participant-oriented factors which are involved . |
| 6 | This perception seems to come closer to providing an explanation for sex-differentiation in language than explanations based on prestige . |
| 7 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 8 | This in turn may help us to postulate structures beneath the surface , sequences and relations of acts , which may help us to go further towards finding the answer to our original problem : what is it that makes stretches of language coherent and communicative ? |
| 9 | To go further in curtailing the freedom of expression would be , almost certainly , to go too far . |
| 10 | Kennedy saw it in what he termed a policy of ‘ constructive repression ’ — which upon examination turns out to consist mainly in restoring the autonomy of the local official , who will be set free from bureaucratic control to go once again among the people , exercising ‘ sympathy ( in its true and not its debauched sense ) ’ , conducting his business in the vernacular , abandoning that ‘ cold aloofness ’ which is ‘ a vice in a ruler ’ , and seeing that the Crown 's Indian subjects are well-governed , harmless , and content . |
| 11 | SunSoft 's first attempt at courting major SCO distributors on behalf of Interactive Unix and Solaris-on-Intel apparently hit the right notes : After a session last month with the SCO Distributor Council ( UX No 385 ) , another meeting is being set up to look seriously into establishing a relationship . |
| 12 | Caterplan Division 's marketing director Rob Nichols , urged the winners to encourage school leavers to look seriously at joining the industry . |
| 13 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 14 | Yet it seems inconceivable to be able to do so without investing every creature from worms and viruses , which follow very precise cycles of action , to the higher mammals , with the sagacity and foresight of seasoned desert nomads or intrepid Viking explorers . |
| 15 | This means that it is necessary to work closely with local authorities , and to do so in selecting a site as well as in the construction of the power station and its subsequent operation . |
| 16 | InterCity had to solve the problem of getting its passengers from Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury and chose to do so by hiring a bus rather than paying another railway sector to do the job . |
| 17 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 18 | It is Alfieri 's character that I want to examine , and I shall attempt to do so by presenting the individual trails that made the character . |
| 19 | Should you wish to cancel the Bond , you then have 14 days to do so by returning the Notice to Midland Life . |
| 20 | Someone who wishes to reduce the risk involved in holding an asset which is essential to his business , and takes steps to do so by purchasing a future or a call option , is referred to as a " hedger " . |
| 21 | But he chose to do so by exploiting the lieutenancy offered to him by Philip the Fair in 1295 , rather than by rebellion against the crown . |
| 22 | It will try to do so by explaining the nature and future of the country 's trade surplus . |
| 23 | Bleary-eyed actor David Threlfall had n't even time to shave yesterday before taking a bow with his screen princess , Serena Scott Thomas . |
| 24 | We were given tasks , but then the tasks had been given to certain people like yourself , starting to want to do the other things , that other people were doing , and then everybody wanted to do instead of doing the tasks that they were set . |
| 25 | Psion intends to invest substantially in expanding the range , but reckons it will have to cut prices below $500 to sell in high volumes . |
| 26 | Meanwhile just up the road from Greencastle , work is due to start soon on extending the Redcastle Hotel 's nine-hole course to 18 . |
| 27 | ‘ Again , a landlord who has obtained an order for possession may still be entitled to re-enter peaceably without invoking the assistance of the sheriff , even during a stay of execution ; but this may now be confined to cases where nobody is lawfully in residence . |
| 28 | He wanted to contribute actively to governing the country once more and have influence in policy making . |
| 29 | The manufacturer recommends sticking the hanger part of the filter onto the glass and leaving this for 15 minutes to adhere properly before attaching the filter body . |
| 30 | Impossible to judge anyway without reading the thing when they got out there … whether it was worthwhile going to bed at five-forty-five in the morning ? |