Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens . |
| 2 | It was , partly , against this background that the government decided to launch a state-sponsored newspaper to act as a unifying factor in the nation , and help in the effort to improve the quality of print journalism in the country , besides helping to bring government policy and other activities to the awareness of all citizens . |
| 3 | By making the income and capital gains from investing in such trusts free of tax , up to a maximum amount of 6,000 a year ( 1992 ) , it is hoped that such savings will be encouraged , thereby helping to channel investment into UK industry . |
| 4 | Secondly , to stimulate employer alliances for purposes of market regulation , especially in those industries with competitive product markets as a means of regulating wages and thereby helping to stabilise market conditions . |
| 5 | The timing of when to do the turn is particularly important in anything other than in dead flat water , since the slope of even the smallest wave can be used to bank off , thereby helping to maintain speed . |
| 6 | Whilst I worked only daring to place sexism at centre stage , it was difficult to give racism its rightful place in our considerations . |
| 7 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 8 | We are not only looking to cost control to help us . |
| 9 | That is the pledge of club chairman Charlie Clapham , who insists the Sandgrounders are only looking to add strength to the side that lifted the HFS League championship trophy last term . |
| 10 | Now , however , with the Government , the CBI , the STUC and the TUC all looking to see core skills in educational and training programmes , SCOTVEC is making them a mandatory element of general SVQs . |
| 11 | I was only going to say Chairman I wish people would n't band the figures around the council chamber which nobody has seen before therefore ca n't assess . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope mine host wo n't mind when he finds we 're only going to have coffee and bread and cheese — because we really ought n't to have a banquet ! ’ |
| 13 | If you have a completely loose system , if you have complete mixed ability , you 're merely going to cause confusion and I would think there 's also a likelihood that you will be unfair to your gifted or your talented children . |
| 14 | Mr Moncrieff added : ‘ Instead of providing short-term cash flow assistance to producers , the bridging fund is apparently going to provide cash flow assistance for the oil funds . |
| 15 | I mean all of them are obviously going to need equipment explained to them |
| 16 | All members of society would be efficiently socialised into a complete acceptance of the social rules , perhaps leading to complete internalisation of the rules . |
| 17 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 18 | ‘ Our reservoirs are all topped up but we 're only beginning to see recovery in water tables , ’ says John West of Anglian Water . |
| 19 | Though fever and diarrhoea still linger as killing diseases in parts of southern and south-eastern Europe , and malaria was only beginning to give way before D.D.T. in 1945 these diseases now linger on only in backward districts . |
| 20 | Where the minister and elders of a church have decided to pursue an application for demolition , remember they may only have come to this decision as a last resort , perhaps having received advice that there was no possibility of alternative use . |
| 21 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |
| 22 | Still , the Giuliani campaign theme of ‘ crime , crack and corruption ’ is apparently failing to ignite voter interest . |
| 23 | He came wandering towards me , obviously having admitted defeat , and I fell in beside him , companionably in step . |
| 24 | His passionate ambition was to lead a crusade against the Turks , and in so doing to unite Christendom — a vision which anticipated that of Charles V , and a policy which was to be a major preoccupation of both Charles and Philip II throughout the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | It is for the courts to construe those words and it is the court 's duty in so doing to give effect to the intention of Parliament in using those words . |
| 26 | The persons being processed into the speaker 's frame of reference may in so doing lose contact with their own , so that they can not relate their new knowledge to their life situation ; neither can they communicate it to others . |
| 27 | The truth is , judging from the current record of the EEC , that countries which wish to expand its powers against those of their own parliaments , are likely in so doing to extend bureaucracy , regulation and uncompetitiveness . |
| 28 | Although the energy problem can be surmounted at a price , it seems certain that the imbalance between infrastructure and population will aggravate economic problems and in so doing worsen nationality problems as well . |
| 29 | The role of the MAS specialist is to support that team in the acquisition or divestment process and in so doing to add value to the service provided . |
| 30 | Under the Transport Act 1985 , local authorities had a duty to pay regard to the transport needs of the elderly and disabled , but merely having to pay regard to those needs does not mean that anything has to be done about the specifications that have been laid down by the disabled persons transport advisory committee . |