Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides helping to understand the primary events of photosynthesis , Tien envisages his thin films could be biomimetic solar energy transducers . |
| 2 | Besides helping to unravel the myriad interactions between adolescent development and social and occupational structures , the initiative will also be seeking answers to practical policy questions in the fields of education , training and employment . |
| 3 | In the museum display of these materials ( such as the treasures of Tutankhamun 's tomb ) , stress may be laid on the objects ' discovery by British archaeologists , thereby helping to legitimize the implicit pseudo-evolutionary claims of historical advance as civilization ( Gidri 1974 ) . |
| 4 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 5 | Thus we want to see the representational role of the newly juxtaposed elements as recognisably preserved within , and thereby helping to determine the new representational role of , the new signal in which they occur . |
| 6 | ‘ I wo n't try that yet , ’ said Fenella , who was rather enjoying riding the horse , but was not sure how she might get on with whatever was a gallop . |
| 7 | The competition lacked the prestige of the League Championship , and its future looked uncertain as one club after another abandoned it by successfully applying to enter the Football League — Bristol City in 1901 , Chelsea in 1905 , Fulham in 1907 and Tottenham in 1908 . |
| 8 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 9 | The knowledge that you are personally helping to support the future development of Medau work and the training of our teachers |
| 10 | Victor , fatter and balder and more like a bilious little hippo than ever , was obviously enjoying playing the O'Briens off against the Mendozas . |
| 11 | In such a theory the state is seen as not merely helping to reproduce the capitalist system in contradictory ways , but as being itself shaped by the class struggle which results from those contradictions . |
| 12 | It followed that the interference by the English courts did not correspond to a social need sufficiently pressing to outweigh the public interest in freedom of expression . |
| 13 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 14 | Far from avoiding reality , I was merely seeking to answer the hon. Gentleman 's question . |
| 15 | In my part of the country — the county which I represent in part is not the only one in this position — Labour-controlled local authorities are still adamantly refusing to release the data to the general public . |
| 16 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 17 | In cases of noteworthy personal achievement such as the award of a swimming trophy to a disabled pupil the governors may consider it entirely fitting to mention the name , but care must be taken not to introduce an undesirable element of competition or rivalry . |
| 18 | In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions . |
| 19 | He stood there , long , lean and totally without concern , the clothes he wore only serving to emphasise the dark arrogance of the man . |
| 20 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 21 | The ethnic Albanian ministers had been tendering their resignations one by one since late March [ ibid. ] , and in passing a vote of confidence in the Kosovo government the provincial Assembly was apparently acting to prevent the government being left in the hands solely of its ethnic Serb members . |
| 22 | The international community faced growing calls for military intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina as more Bosnian towns came under attack , with the Moslem element of the republic 's population under increasing pressure and Serbian forces apparently seeking to link the " Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina " ( SRBH ) to Serbia proper . |
| 23 | George III favoured the Tories , and in so going attracted the criticism of Whigs and radicals . |
| 24 | Pills and potions are only going to remove the symptoms . |
| 25 | This month I 'm only going to tab the two-bar ending , leaving the 16-bar solo for the next two issues . |
| 26 | You ca n't possibly have it on a verb , and that 's another little rule you might like to think of , that you 're only going to get the apostrophe on a noun , and you will never get an apostrophe on a pronoun . |
| 27 | dude , cos I 'm only going to get the piss taken out of my hair are n't I ? |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , they 're different , but you 're only going to have the variation on three of the strings ; the three plain strings are going to feel pretty similar . |
| 29 | Thus it can be argued that although the courts proclaim that in reviewing the decisions of an administrative body they are merely attempting to keep the body within the jurisdiction conferred upon it by Parliament , in fact they do sometimes explicitly justify their decisions by reference to the expertise or lack of expertise of the body whose decision it is sought to review . |
| 30 | I was merely going to ask the Chief why he sent for me this morning . ’ |