Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] and " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The defendant 's solicitor endorses on the copy summons a certificate duly accepting service and giving an address for service . |
| 4 | At team meetings anyone was welcome to have his say , thereby building cohesion and a feeling that everyone belonged to the unit . |
| 5 | Fusion takes place in the Sun — protons fusing to deuterons eventually producing helium and liberating heat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We sit together eating pan and singing . |
| 15 | In both cases , supply is merely reflecting demand and is thus endogenously determined . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the supercharged 1.5-litre V16 engine was all wailing noise and no go . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | First by learning about the nature of addictive disease as a naturally relapsing condition and therefore being aware of the need for continual monitoring . |
| 21 | As the third example shows , the government continued to pin its hope upon private sector industrial and commercial investment in the inner cities , the Prime Minister and her colleagues constantly urging industry and the financial institutions to do more . |
| 22 | Funding church schools is foolishly promoting bigotry and intolerance . |
| 23 | These combine well , the chords marching down aggressively and the upper part pointedly expressing energy and spirit . |
| 24 | The segregationist view is based on the belief that the multiple and complicated impairments and changes that affect the victim of dementia require specialist help , that the number of sufferers involved tends to swamp integrated services , so causing resentment and rejection by staff or by the non-demented , and that past neglect can be transformed into future enthusiastic , well resources specialism . |
| 25 | On impulse , she bought a recently published history of the region under the Occupation and took it to a pavement café , where she sat under a gaudy sunshade , idly sipping coffee and glancing through her book , but finding the passing show around her far more diverting . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose that bit of garden must be well manured , ’ said Scarlet , idly sipping vodka and tonic . |
| 27 | Curtains : Children perhaps deciding shape and size . |
| 28 | He was in his late twenties with pale skin , prematurely thinning hair and wore a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles which made him look studious . |
| 29 | The result is often a very useful skeleton history of the region , but one which is constantly undergoing revision and correction as new information is discovered . |
| 30 | Choose the Poly Style Deep Care Perm to suit your requirements — Long Lasting Bouncy Curls or Long Lasting Body and Wave . |