Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if you are not exercising aerobically using some form of whole body continuous movement ( brisk walking , jogging , cycling ) for 30 minutes at least three to four times a week , then by definition , you are sedentary . |
| 2 | ‘ We are slowly realising that fat is a very effective means of making you put on weight . |
| 3 | Clovers helped remove the fallow stage from cultivation , effectively bringing more land into use — as in the ‘ Norfolk Four Course ’ ( wheat , turnips , barley , and clover ) advocated but not invented by Viscount Townshend of Raynham ( ‘ Turnip ’ Townshend , 1674–1738 ) . |
| 4 | In theory , one bile acid molecule could recycle several times , thereby generating several HCO 3 - ions in the canaliculus , and this would explain the ‘ hyper ’ choleresis . |
| 5 | AIRCRAFT OWNERS and Pilots Association ( AOPA ) continue their campaign to save threatened airfields , a campaign that is thankfully enjoying some success . |
| 6 | On successfully completing this award , the student can go on to take National Certificate ( Skillstart 2 ) . |
| 7 | After successfully completing this course , you would then normally have to undertake a two year training contract . |
| 8 | This change of diet should not , of course , be attempted by diabetics except under medical supervision , and so far no juvenile diabetics have been treated successfully using this type of diet . |
| 9 | The King asked whether it would be approved , and Baldwin skilfully replied that it would not be acceptable to the country , thereby keeping any question of the Government 's own veto in the background . |
| 10 | By contrast , the rational expectations hypothesis , when applied to the theory of inflation , appeared to indicate that money would be neutral in the short run also , thereby denying any role to policy activism . |
| 11 | A tribunal in The Hague is slowly resolving each country 's claims against the other , including Tehran 's demand for the return of $12billion in military equipment and spare parts which the regime says were paid for but never delivered . |
| 12 | Vigorously denying this interpretation , however , the US administration insisted that the declaration represented no change from the US position as previously stated , and that its publication had been motivated by the desire to ensure that the Soviet Union remained a supportive member of the international coalition against Iraq . |
| 13 | In this context there seems to have been some unexplained change of thinking on the part of the Inspectorate because the eight areas of experience ( in Curriculum 11–16 ) were seen as a way of considering a common curriculum , presumably satisfying all aspects of the curriculum including ‘ education and society ’ and ‘ working life ’ . |
| 14 | An explanation needs to be made to these pupils as to the benefits of providing their own paints and thereby gaining more experience with a wider range of materials . |
| 15 | His current research is extending into a study of how teachers ' own writing about classroom processes makes explicit their implicit educational values , thereby enabling these values to be critically appraised by other teachers , and to be opened for further development . |
| 16 | Secondly , whether the eligibility levels are then allowed to drift downwards , thereby eliminating many people from the scheme . |
| 17 | This is work which requires an emotional coldness but which can on occasions be so demanding that detachment is difficult to maintain . |
| 18 | He has convinced Roderigo that Othello 's attraction for Desdemona is purely sensual , will soon be satiated , and that then Desdemona will love him ; even though the dupe is constantly doubting that vision , Iago manages to sustain it for as long as he needs to . |
| 19 | They have produced a number of published manifestos condemning US congressional interference in El Salvador and adamantly opposing any dialogue with the FDR : |
| 20 | Doing nothing only sawing all day . |
| 21 | Allow one month for depopulation , one month while the new birds settle in and one month for the production to increase , basically producing most grades under size four with a few size fours and threes thrown in . |
| 22 | Have your hands gently resting either side of your navel . |
| 23 | This period convinced him even more that merely eating less cereals and other more uncommon food products , such as tulip bulbs , improved the clinical condition of his patients . |
| 24 | Others may be tempted to explore the Glarus canton ( perhaps using this excursion as their exit route from the region of the Vierwaldstattersee for further explorations in north or north-east Switzerland , in cantons Zurich , St Gallen or Grisons ) . |
| 25 | Now I 'm not I like I like the thought of but I prefer the thought of in work and how people can work together using this type of thing and think about it in the context of work rather than in the context that it talks about erm and it 'll be interesting to talk to you tomorrow so if to see what you think have the think about the things we 've talked about . |
| 26 | The number was extremely complicated so realising that completion would take some time , he took out advertisements a year before of the first performance and announced that bookings would be accepted for the unseen act . |
| 27 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 28 | However , as with the English infinitive , the speaker is not merely accepting this happening as a fact but is passing judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence : the verb regretter here expresses a " critical idea " through which the happening être venu is " viewed " ( Guillaume 1971a : 218 ) . |
| 29 | We are able to calculate the population for the late 17th century when a census was taken throughout Kent to enumerate the various religious bodies i.e. the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , the return for Hailing showing 60 Conformists , no Catholics or Nonconformists , so allowing this figure was for adults only and allowing an average of 40 children for 60 adults this gives us a total of 100 . |
| 30 | It 's the last day of Week 2 and I suggest that you have your main meal at lunchtime again , so allowing more time to work it off before tomorrow 's assessment . |