Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A statement that causes the rest of the line to be ignored thereby allowing comments to be included in a program . |
| 2 | The basic principle of these vast Swedish furnishing stores is to provide self-assembly furniture in self-service flat packs , thereby keeping prices to the absolute minimum . |
| 3 | Viewing through the camera , I put on the brush strokes with artist 's acrylic gel which has the benefit of being water based , so allowing changes to be easily made where necessary . |
| 4 | In these ways third States whose co-operation is required for the effective performance of a treaty can be brought within its framework , without necessarily becoming parties to it . |
| 5 | We see no scientific justification for the statement about the immunogenicity of gangliosides , nor do we find any direct evidence to support the contention that naturally occurring antibodies to monosialoganglioside are pathogenic . |
| 6 | The advantage of the pen system in Eo 's machine is that it does away with the keyboard , so enabling applications to be written for all language forms — non-Roman script like Japanese or Arabic for instance . |
| 7 | Similarly , he read pen in hand , constantly writing notes to his staff or commenting on other people 's notes . |
| 8 | ‘ We are only requiring children to be tested four times in their educational life , ’ she added . |
| 9 | ‘ The interest the French take in their appearance definitely includes their underwear , so buying trips to Paris are always informative for me , ’ she says . |
| 10 | ICI has also developed specialised equipment , such as ‘ Cleanseal ’ and ‘ Cleanzone ’ , which can reduce solvent losses by up to 90 per cent , so minimising emissions to the environment . |
| 11 | The above cell volume regulatory mechanisms have usually been demonstrated by suddenly exposing cells to large changes in medium osmolality . |
| 12 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 13 | The progressive realisation of the single market was already bringing benefits to industry and commerce in the EC , and industrial leaders began to share the conviction of the Commission and the Parliament that , without eventual EMU , the full benefits of the single market could not be garnered . |
| 14 | There is increasing independent evidence that the first trusts are proving that bringing management back into the hospitals is already bringing benefits to patients and staff . |
| 15 | A major advantage of this type of input was that these basic validation checks were made at input time and any errors detected were displayed back to the operator immediately , thus allowing corrections to be made quickly . |
| 16 | The simple reason is that the safety net function it performs is only rendered necessary by a semantic sleight of hand : we think we need the net because our original conceptions of propriety of purpose or relevancy are drawn unrealistically wide , thus allowing cases to ‘ tumble through . ’ |
| 17 | This involves reconstruing the situation so that it looks more straightforward and easy to handle , thus allowing sides to be taken or a stance adopted which reduces the confusion and allows at least some action to be taken — a villain to be defeated , a wrong to be righted , a battle to be fought . |
| 18 | The system has proved to be flexible thus enabling enhancements to be made — enhancements which quite often could not have been thought of at the initial design stage , since the concept of an integrated payroll and personnel function was very much new ground . |
| 19 | With half the workforce already paying contributions to a private pension scheme , a growing number of old folks will be able to draw on pensions from their employers . |
| 20 | I was n't exactly selling drugs to teenagers : most of my friends were in the music business in London , and you ca n't find a business which goes more hand in hand with it . |
| 21 | Demand was unstable and in the highly competitive market prices fluctuated widely , thus requiring firms to be able to reduce costs quickly in a recession in order to avoid losses . |
| 22 | The Toyota Celica 2.0 GT , the Audi Coupe , and the Volkswagen Corrado are already making inroads to the UK market . |
| 23 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 24 | During Mrs Thatcher 's eleven and a half years in power , journalists were mostly fawning courtiers to the Queen of Downing Street . |
| 25 | We indicated in the original report that leisure electronics generalists such as Seiko , Smith-Corona , Texas Instruments , and Aurora were hurriedly investing in spellchecker products and rapidly bringing ranges to the market at much lower prices than either Franklin or SelecTronics . |
| 26 | SUPERMARKET staff in Chelmsford were yesterday urging shoppers to back reform of the Sunday trading laws . |
| 27 | An early approach to the vendor may also give the developer opportunity to assist in the planning process , possibly overcoming obstacles to the proposed development . |
| 28 | A currency hoard is a sum of money put together by drawing all its coins from circulation on a single occasion , whereas a savings hoard is formed by gradually adding coins to a hoard over a period of several years ; the difference in the way the coins were collected will affect the internal composition of the hoard . |
| 29 | He freely admits to being a sucker for the equipment and gadgetry of the hobby , and specialises in quickly testing items to destruction — sometimes even deliberately . |
| 30 | Its philosophy is still developing , but it 's now a very concrete operation — £2 million has already been committed to 18 research projects in the UK , the Netherlands , Eire and the US , and we are still adding projects to the list . |