Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 2 | In eight or nine rounds the referee should be stepping in to rescue the younger man , unless he is knocked out . |
| 3 | Instead of ignoring the Alamo and its small garrison , and pressing on to fight the main Texan army , Santa Anna decided to take the Alamo by storm . |
| 4 | You have to be careful not to add too many of course , ending up knitting the next size . |
| 5 | Looking down carries the further risk of making him unaware of other dangers around him . |
| 6 | With Matt Greenwood and Martin Pepper in tremendous form on the flank and with Stuart Potter scything through to score the decisive try of the game , Nottingham put a considerable dent in Northampton 's hopes of winning League One . |
| 7 | By careful selection of topics from the content of the module , the student can be provided with the opportunity of exploring the usefulness and limitations of selected strategies to different types of problem before going on to tackle the formal investigation . |
| 8 | Before going on to examine the Franco-German relationship and the German Question in the next chapter , however , it is worth asking what it is about Britain that makes it so sensitive over national sovereignty . |
| 9 | Before going on to describe the basic features of these techniques , a few words are necessary about the general field of quantitative techniques . |
| 10 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 11 | It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern . |
| 12 | The United States and New Zealand , the reigning world champions , will make especially strong challenges , the latter including Blyth Tait and Messiah , Badminton runners-up in 1990 before going on to win the individual world title . |
| 13 | Before going on to discuss the stylistic changes in the Cubism of Picasso and Braque during 1910 , it is necessary to interject a word about Picasso 's bronze Head , the most important early Cubist sculpture . |
| 14 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 15 | People are flooding in to get the exceptional bargains on offer , ’ said a House of Fraser spokesman . |
| 16 | And all I ken was that we got word that there was to be a school trip and that we were leaving I forget what tie in the morning , and going down to see the German ships . |
| 17 | Reloading the Walther , he waited for the lavatory to flush before going through to help the old man back to bed . |
| 18 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 19 | Those shares 're still paying off better'n the regular paycheck . ’ |
| 20 | For Yorkshiremen the meeting was like the town turning out to greet the local boy who scored in the Cup Final . |
| 21 | Tony and Nathan have made tea and soup and we have some before going out to feed the first batch of dogs . |
| 22 | They were supposedly going out to hit the high spots together , leaving me to throw some things into a bag and drive down to the cottage . |
| 23 | Well black leading was a sort of erm going out cleaning the old fireplaces , for people that were slightly better off than we were , their husbands might have been a tram driver or a railway driver . |
| 24 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 25 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 26 | It was signed by the organisation 's prize draw manager no less so it was not just case of anybody going round breaking the good news . |
| 27 | We will be asked why , given the evidence of the time , when EFTA and the east European countries were queueing up to join the tighter Community that was being proposed , we allowed ourselves to be left outside . |
| 28 | Before moving on to tackle the other types of gybe , you should aim to perfect the standard carve gybe with a success rate of nine out of ten . |
| 29 | Erm and we are now moving on to fill the senior customer services post . |
| 30 | Before moving on to consider the different variables , the question of timing should not be overlooked . |