Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 2 | With this foothold , and after further controversial sackings , he took control , eventually bringing in John Freeman , the eminently respectable journalist and ex-Ambassador to the USA , as chairman . |
| 3 | Such statements are in fact usually false , either because the combination of a and b is not a necessary condition of p , so that even if X had not done b , p might still have occurred , or because , even if X had n't done b , some other agent would have done it instead , thereby bringing about p . |
| 4 | In Britain , gene transplants like Carly 's have been limited by the ethics committee to operations which produce changes that will not be passed on to future generations — effectively allowing only treatments little different in ethical terms from ordinary organ transplants . |
| 5 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 6 | It crept forward , slowly building up speed , and when it was twenty yards behind them the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor . |
| 7 | He accused ‘ powers which are situated many thousands of kilometres from this region ’ of having ‘ concentrated a naval armada ’ in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean and of ‘ intensively building up armaments , expanding the network of their military bases and pressuring and threatening small countries that do not follow their lead ’ . |
| 8 | The scene of scrabbling around at the top of the stairwell and the subsequent scene of ED 209 's lashing about furiously at the foot of the stairs , unable to regain its footing , were then animated , the latter mostly using back projection and maximum blurs — almost literally hands-on , with the animator waggling the legs with wires during the one- or two-frame takes . |
| 9 | The Institute says that an undientified virus is to blame , thereby ruling out bacteria , mycoplasmas and other agents such as the ones which cause scrapie . |
| 10 | A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not . |
| 11 | You will be amazed at how much walking you will manage to do in a week : somehow the wonderful scenery seems to inspire you to keep on walking over distances that you would be hard pushed to cover back home . |
| 12 | A Labour Chancellor will hope that by publically ruling out devaluation this would pre-empt a run on sterling and would limit any base rate rise to ½ per cent at most — thus avoiding a mortgage rate rise . |
| 13 | She went on tearing out feathers , glancing surreptitiously at Betty . |
| 14 | I put keep on keeping up appearances or something , yeah . |
| 15 | Somebody must be locked away somewhere totting up figures , or how would they make all that money ? |
| 16 | For this , he used Debussy 's piano suite , ‘ Morceaux enfantins ’ , as the inspiration of dances whimsically reflecting both memories and fantasies of childhood . |
| 17 | So bringing back Bamber Gascoigne might involve a sweetener in a TV contract for a new series . |
| 18 | So bringing back Bamber Gascoigne might involve a sweetener in a TV contract for a new series . |
| 19 | Roddick has pledged herself and her organisation to ‘ increasing public awareness of the qualities of jojoba oil and to lead the way by using it extensively , so helping both people and whales . ’ |
| 20 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 21 | He 's perhaps walking down town looking for us . |
| 22 | You need not be constantly totting up calories for everything that you eat ( unless you want to of course ) , but do bear in mind the high calorie value of fat and keep it to a minimum . |
| 23 | It comprises methods for the partitioning of large IT systems into units which may be designed , constructed and used one by one , so enabling both users and designers to review system requirements at discrete stages of the development . |
| 24 | The increases were slow to develop , apparently ruling out proteins as immediate retrograde messengers . |
| 25 | However , he said , his commission was empowered only to investigate matters directly related to the " current " violence , apparently ruling out investigation of past incidents . |
| 26 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 27 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 28 | Income tax is by far the most important direct tax , alone contributing almost 26% of government receipts . |
| 29 | The index is invaluable to the person who is merely seeking out information on a limited topic . |
| 30 | The chef/proprietor is Portuguese , and special Portuguese evenings are held with five course meals and live music all costing around £13 . |