Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the problem can be overcome by designing networks that meet people 's walking needs , thereby encouraging a level of activity that ‘ deters antisocial behaviour and offers the reassurance of help at hand if hassled ’ . |
| 2 | This last factor is crucial since if a rock is not saturated ice formation will simply cause the expulsion of water into air-filled cavities , thereby inhibiting a build-up of pressure . |
| 3 | Rose Hilaire had sat stiffly upright , feet together , hands in her lap , refusing a cigarette — ‘ I do n't smoke — ’ although eventually accepting a cup of tea , during the drinking of which her hand was observed to shake . |
| 4 | Those without work are excluded from building up savings , whether in the form of a house or an adequate pension , and thereby gaining a stake in society . |
| 5 | To reduce the magnification soak up some of the water drop by gently touching a piece of paper tissue or blotting paper against it for an instant . |
| 6 | There are some delightful and newly published illustrations of them from manuscripts they made , peering out of initials which they are still painting , or kneeling in corners , or , in the case of Nicolaus Bertschi of Augsburg , apparently accepting a mug of beer from his wife Margaret . |
| 7 | obviously using a bit of sense |
| 8 | You can do much of the remaining internal work yourself , not only saving a lot of money on labour charges , but a considerable sum in VAT at the current rate of 17.5% . |
| 9 | We then begin by putting on the ‘ bottles ’ ( small , tightly tied bundles , somewhat resembling a bottle in shape ) to form a new eave line . |
| 10 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 11 | The acquisition of a stereotype by a subgroup of the population usually works to its detriment , and although perhaps preserving a grain of truth in relation to the subgroup 's activities , it is also misleading for members of the whole population who use the stereotype . |
| 12 | In organisms which reproduce asexually , without producing eggs , quite long-lasting changes can arise , without apparently requiring a change in DNA sequence . |
| 13 | I am told you were recently criticised by a learned judge for wrongly sending a Romany for trial to the Assizes in Oxford ? ’ |
| 14 | I was only having a bit of fun . ’ |
| 15 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 16 | One former teacher , Virginia Doyle who was to be discovered in retirement in Sherwood Forest , Toronto , remembered him as a clowning , cunning boy who was good enough to get high marks without apparently doing a lick of work . |
| 17 | This sudden introduction of personal involvement into an essay which was otherwise a dispassionate description is disruptive , and sounds as though the writer really wanted to write much more personally ( so indicating a kind of dissatisfaction with the essay as it stands ) . |
| 18 | Frankenstein wanted only knowledge — was , if you like , only doing a bit of research . |
| 19 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 20 | It could be of interest , so taking a piece of cotton waste out of my pocket , I cleaned the accumulated filth off it , only to discover that on it was stamped ON-OFF . |
| 21 | There is also a role for the counsellor to introduce an ‘ extra ’ thought or dimension to the topic , perhaps involving a point of view which has not been considered by the group . |
| 22 | They had spent so long reaching a place of safety , and were now so near . |
| 23 | Accordingly it became normal to try to survey erosion terraces and their associated features in the field and this type of investigation illustrates well the desirability of fitting the punishment to the crime , or more prosaically reaching a compromise between accuracy and amount of data . |
| 24 | But it was only accelerating a process of contraction that had begun decades earlier . |
| 25 | Eyes of darkest brown , ’ he continued softly , but he did n't sound as though he were amused , or teasing — rather as though he was merely making a statement of fact , which she found slightly disconcerting . |
| 26 | For this purpose , a plasmid containing both promoters was relaxed with topoisomerase I in the presence of increasing amounts of ethidium bromide , so obtaining a number of plasmid preparations with a superhelical density ranging from 0 ( relaxed plasmid ) to -0.071 ( fully supercoiled , see methods ) . |
| 27 | This means literally washing a wall with light . |
| 28 | ‘ On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front . |
| 29 | Obviously throwing a bucket of water over them is n't going to do a lot of good , so if there is a likelihood of it happening , you 'll need to be prepared . |
| 30 | So barring a change of policy by the force , or by PC Packer , both of which seem unlikely , the battle of Chalford High Street looks like a stalemate . |