Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always had to spend ages reassuring Lennie he did want to travel with him and George had to keep on reminding Lennie of their dream , of alfalfa and rabbits , to comfort him . |
| 2 | This would allow a larger number of glucose units to enter the gut , thereby allowing uptake of sodium ions via the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter at a higher rate , and hence allowing speedier reabsorption of water from the gut lumen . |
| 3 | However , by analogy with the parietal cell ( see section 2 ) , it seems likely that HCO 3 - secretion involves parallel regulation of both basolateral and apical HCO 3 - transport systems , thereby allowing maintenance of a near constant pH i through varying rates of transepithelial HCO 3 - transport . |
| 4 | The Province-wide project employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to collect data and includes a proportion of male respondents within the sample , thereby allowing comparisons of political participation to be drawn on the basis of , among other things , sex and gender . |
| 5 | To a first approximation it is also possible to write thereby allowing use of the data from either type of measurement to characterize the sample . |
| 6 | Later the mass of dancers merely moves upstage sur les pointes to a pose and further ports de bras , then returns downstage to another slowly unfolding set of ports de bras and arabesques . |
| 7 | Mr Darby admitted that the company had faced difficult trading conditions , despite successfully completing integration of Ultramar 's oil and gasfield interests and raising about £1 billion from assets sold off already . |
| 8 | Why had Shirley Brown had to mention the point on her brief visit to him earlier that morning , and sowed those slowly germinating seeds of doubt ? |
| 9 | A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage . |
| 10 | One day he went missing , and the producer went in search of him , eventually catching sight of his Rolls-Royce parked outside a bar . |
| 11 | As the coach swung around the mountain 's impressive edge , directly below the vast height , I looked up and seemed to see the grimly laughing face of one of the woodcarver 's gods . |
| 12 | Even so , some residents had started to venture out to local pubs and shops and were slowly becoming part of the community . |
| 13 | Furthermore the overall effect of this circulation is to link together into a widely ramifying network of relationships a great number of individuals of quite different status and quite different cultural background . |
| 14 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 15 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 16 | Post-war Bob went on to fly Vampires in the Middle East , eventually becoming CO of a Royal Indian Air Force squadron . |
| 17 | Notably , it proposed that a " clear organic relationship " be established between the Western European Union ( WEU ) and the new political union , with the WEU eventually becoming part of the political union and developing " a common security policy on its behalf " , which would not , however , interfere with existing defence arrangements . |
| 18 | In 1981 , the same year as retired from working life , he was elected to Metropolitan County Council , eventually becoming Chair of the prestigious Personnel Committee . |
| 19 | Etheridge jun. resigned in 1878 , eventually becoming Director of the Australian Museum . |
| 20 | He retired in 1982 in some frustration with the civil service before eventually becoming director-general of the Institute of Directors . |
| 21 | WAITERS dash to and fro replenishing baskets of crusty bread as often as you like — a sure sign of a good French brasserie . |
| 22 | Any commentary must acknowledge at the outset the difficulty in effectively representing diversity of both sectors in terms of quality , quantity and of ‘ style ’ , that is to say , in the attitudes and values that underpin service . |
| 23 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 24 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 25 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 26 | She stopped , suddenly catching sight of the notes in the saucer . |
| 27 | ALASTAIR GRAHAM , headmaster of Mill Hill School , north London , says parents who have paid fees should not be above gently reminding offspring of the financial sacrifices made on their behalf in the run-up to exams . |
| 28 | ( If you are only using part of the bean mix at one time , the remainder will keep , covered , for 2–3 days in the refrigerator . ) |
| 29 | This has the advantage of apparently allowing storage of digested slurries without regeneration of offensive odours . |
| 30 | People who have particular knowledge and experience in common , whose contextual realities , so to speak , are closely congruent , will manage to communicate by engaging relevant aspects of contexts with only sparing use of the linguistic resources at their disposal . |