Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have seen that the continual tendency and law of the development of the capitalist mode of production is more and more to divorce the means of production from labour , and more and more to concentrate the scattered means of production into large groups , thereby transforming labour into wage-labour and the means of production into capital ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 2 | A vast amount of work remains to be done before the UK can really claim to be properly policing trade in wildlife . |
| 3 | Besides diffracting light through material slits ( Young 's slits ) , one can diffract atoms through gratings composed of immaterial light waves , atoms through slits composed of other atoms and , now , light off a pair of atoms suspended in a vacuum in a magnetic field ( U. Eichmann et al . |
| 4 | He welcomed the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and William III appointed him a commissioner of the Admiralty , a responsibility he took very seriously , effectively using Whitehaven for gathering intelligence during the Irish war of 1689–90 . |
| 5 | The interesting question , in the present context , is how far these can be coordinated with familiar pedagogic techniques , thereby bringing research within the compass of normal teaching ; or , in more general terms , what implications does work on classroom observation have for developments in teacher education ( see Allwright 1988 ) . |
| 6 | The Mnchener is suing Atlantic Richfield for nearly $150m , alleging that the company knew that the products the unit was developing would never be commercially viable , and according to the Wall Street Journal citing electronic mail messages , one of which says that as it appears the development ‘ is a pipe dream , let Siemens have the pipe , ’ and another that says ‘ We will attempt to finesse past Siemens the fact that we have had a great deal of trouble in successfully transitioning technology from the laboratory to the factory ’ ; Atlantic Richfield denies attempting to mislead Siemens over the unit . |
| 7 | Somewhere along the Ob river in central Siberia , slowly building strength for a 3,500-mile flight , wait perhaps 50 Siberian cranes . |
| 8 | Regions are also allowed to change the boundaries of protected areas , thereby allowing hunting in areas where it was previously banned . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But they came to a working arrangement with her — ‘ and the price they exacted from her was this up-front crusading thing about AIDS . ’ |
| 13 | Most noticeable perhaps is that the dead minister of the newspaper account is removed completely , thereby channelling attention towards the sick minister in the vignette . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Two papers by Fletcher et al ( p 622 ) and Hole et al ( p 609 ) in this week 's journal constitute the latest chapter in the slowly unfolding chronicle on hypertension and cancer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Despite blatantly courting affiliation with the drugs'n'rock'n'drugs set , the band have a healthy , fresh-faced energy which suggests the closest they have come to cold turkey is on Boxing Day . |
| 18 | Despite blatantly courting affiliation with the drugs'n'rock'n'drugs set , the band have a healthy , fresh-faced energy which suggests the closest they have come to cold turkey is on Boxing Day . |
| 19 | In caves and hill-strongholds the legend has persisted of the Lost Prince , Igor Fedorovitch , said to have survived the assassination of his father ; and it is mainly among ‘ simple , pastoral folk ’ that the Forgers of the Sword have been slowly gathering support for the restoration of the rightful king , after his existence and identity have been discovered . |
| 20 | One day he went missing , and the producer went in search of him , eventually catching sight of his Rolls-Royce parked outside a bar . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the bad old days of low-carbohydrate diets , many people did , indeed , imagine that those saintly ‘ protein foods ’ were calorie-free — I have even known poor souls pouring down vastly fattening cream under the mistaken impression that it was calorie-free because it lacked carbohydrate ! |
| 23 | The picture painted is gloomy , but there is a very effective method of agriculture that is slowly gaining credence amongst farmers , government and consumers alike . |
| 24 | The idea of a United Front was slowly gaining favour on the Left , despite the intransigence of the Communists . |
| 25 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 26 | Even so , some residents had started to venture out to local pubs and shops and were slowly becoming part of the community . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Post-war Bob went on to fly Vampires in the Middle East , eventually becoming CO of a Royal Indian Air Force squadron . |