Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a prime objective at every stage is to prevent the necessity for increasingly intrusive interventions , thereby maintaining autonomy and family integrity . |
| 2 | The need to penetrate this curtain is imperative , thereby allowing reform so the state is more in tune with the wishes of society . |
| 3 | Bourgeois thought indulges in an abstraction of the process of thinking from the total process of being , thereby reifying thought and setting it above being . |
| 4 | The defendant 's solicitor endorses on the copy summons a certificate duly accepting service and giving an address for service . |
| 5 | The main maser features may have originated from the slowly rotating disk or from the outflow gas near the galactic nucleus . |
| 6 | At team meetings anyone was welcome to have his say , thereby building cohesion and a feeling that everyone belonged to the unit . |
| 7 | Fusion takes place in the Sun — protons fusing to deuterons eventually producing helium and liberating heat . |
| 8 | At the same time he moved into television , thereby acquiring knowledge and understanding of a medium destined to become of supreme importance in American political life . |
| 9 | No smoking , no alcohol , only eating food that was good for you . ’ |
| 10 | He may use a type of emotional blackmail against you and other people close to him , by constantly demanding attention but refusing to allow other people to perform necessary chores for him , on the grounds that ‘ you do it better ’ . |
| 11 | City land available for house-building was further reduced by the building of railways and roads which often swallowed up not only building land but also existing working-class housing . |
| 12 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 13 | But er , I ca n't understand why , because I mean , let's face it , he he 's only using fibre-glass and they 're not that flammable |
| 14 | Sociology will need to make use of psychoanalytic theory to the extent that it seeks to be not only accumulating knowledge and developing theory for its own sake , but also acknowledges that by doing this it is changing society 's own self-understanding . |
| 15 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 16 | Two balls later Kapil Dev had Jones caught behind , and next ball Waugh was adjudged caught at second slip , the ball perhaps eluding bat and touching only pad . |
| 17 | Hassocks , West Sussex-based distributor Hypersoft Ltd has added ICL Plc Cobol support , to its ‘ mainframe to micro ’ analysis tool , Application Browser : it 's a move designed to fill the gap in the market for analysis tools , which tend to be written for IBM Corp mainframes ; the combined use of ICL Cobol and embedded languages like IDMS removes the threat of syntax errors , so easing re-engineering and maintenance processes ; Application Browser runs under MS-DOS and costs £4,000 , the company said . |
| 18 | Here is what she typed on the computer : UMMK JK CDZZ F ZD DSDSKSM S SS FMCV PU I DDRGLKDXRRDO RDTE QDWFDVIOY UDSKZWDCCVYT H CHVY NMGNBAYTDFCCVD D RCDFYYYRM N DFSKD LD K WDWK JJKAUIZMZI UXKIDISFUMDKUDXI She has other important calls on her time , so I was obliged to program the computer to simulate a randomly typing baby or monkey : WDLDMNLT DTJBKWIRZREZLMQCO P Y YVMQKZPGJXWVHGLAWFVCHQYOPY MWR SWTNUXMLCDLEUBXTQHNZVJQF FU OVAODVYKDGXDEKRVMOGGS VT HZQZDSFZIHIVPHZPETPWVOVPMZGF GEWRGZRPBCTPGQMCKHFDBGW ZCCF And so on and on . |
| 19 | Film badges monitor exposure to external penetrating and sparsely ionising radiation but not internal or other forms of radiation , and the fact of being issued with a film badge to monitor external penetrating radiation could , for certain workers , be a marker of exposure to other forms of radiation . |
| 20 | It is a poem which uses plain , simple language and he holds it together using onomatopoeia and effective rhyme but you do not feel as if there is one definite clear-cut image or message in it . |
| 21 | We sit together eating pan and singing . |
| 22 | In both cases , supply is merely reflecting demand and is thus endogenously determined . |
| 23 | Included on the JustText disk is a utility to convert a Thunderscan image into PostScript , so allowing artwork or simple halftones to be incorporated into the page . |
| 24 | Its rival , the Association of Combatant Clergy , supports President Rafsanjani and his cautious policy of liberalising the economy and links with the West , so gaining finance and technology to rebuild Iran 's economy , still suffering from the war against Iraq which ended in 1988 . |
| 25 | But the supercharged 1.5-litre V16 engine was all wailing noise and no go . |
| 26 | Fleischmann was alluding to the strategic importance of lithium-6 , which is present as 7.5 per cent of all naturally occurring lithium and is an important ingredient in thermonuclear weapons as it can be cleft by neutrons to make tritium , the essential fuel , and can fuse with deuterium to make helium-4 , releasing energy in the form of gamma rays without accompanying neutrons . |
| 27 | Besides the circular helix , much the best known naturally occurring helix and also the most interesting and beautiful mathematically is the concho-spiral , adopted in all coiled gastropod shells and some others such as the group of protozoans known as Foramenifera . |
| 28 | It is not legitimate to extend the use of such terminology prospectively , to naturally occurring behaviour where there is no possibility of testing the contingent relations through experimental investigation . |
| 29 | ‘ Bodily Injury ’ does not include sickness , disease or naturally occurring condition or degenerative process but does include death or disablement as a direct result of exposure to the elements . |
| 30 | It is thought that a similar mechanism operates in the naturally occurring self-cure when large numbers of larvae mature to the infective stage on pasture after rain . |