Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The construction of the Suez Canal — which links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea , thereby shortening considerably the shipping distance between Europe and the eastern continents — was commenced in 1859 , the same year as Charles Robert Darwin published his ‘ Origins of Species ’ which provoked a great deal of controversy . |
| 2 | On the other side of the coin you might find a child who is experiencing such difficulties in his learning that the first line of attack must be in , in terms of perhaps producing just an improvement of his base level of learning , so that the next step can be taken . |
| 3 | It was those two who invariably forgot to comply with Judith 's requests , while John and I usually showed up with the items , literally bringing home the bacon . |
| 4 | In particular the set of expression values is likely to be much restricted ( perhaps allowing only the Boolean values 0 and 1 ) . |
| 5 | These southern burials are clearly very different from the coordinated northern cemetery , obviously occurring once the suburbs themselves were virtually derelict . |
| 6 | The legislature creates a rather abstract mandate and an agency to implement it , while only defining explicitly the offences which give rise to prosecution . |
| 7 | At the same time , the Cobham Fellowship itself formed five smaller congregations from the one large group , only meeting twice a month as one church . |
| 8 | By creating a peerage for Henry III , Louis IX was only emphasising further the closeness of the allegiance which bound the two men . |
| 9 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 10 | And a lot of people of course do n't go into our shops , so we feel that there are a lot of people out there who have a lot of sympathy for Oxfam 's aims and objectives , but are only lacking just the opportunity to give , and that 's what we hope to provide them with . |
| 11 | You 've got no more money but twenty pounds so taking away a negative number is the same as adding , yeah ? |
| 12 | In the way by which he was brought up by hand and also how his hands are burnt and so scarred by the fire in which he tries to save Miss Havisham , perhaps showing physically the mental scars he has taken on through his treatment of others , especially Joe . |
| 13 | Show some ability to organise and present complex subject matter , eg putting forward a number of conflicting points of view , or weaving two strands into a story . |
| 14 | If , like her , you have a sweet tooth , you might be better leaving just a little sugar in the diet to increase the likelihood that you will continue with the new sugar-reduced regime . |
| 15 | Though neither of them mentioned it , she was obviously feeling much the same as he was and he was overcome by a longing to rush to her side , hold her , comfort her , whisper that everything would be fine . |
| 16 | Start a Shuttle and a space walker off in the same direction and at the same speed , and they stay together following exactly the same path round the Earth . |
| 17 | Around the Dorset coast at Lyme Regis , mammoth waves roared over the promenade , badly damaging even a tank-like , £23,000 Range Rover . |
| 18 | In the long run , investment will also affect the supply side of the economy , raising its productive potential and thereby pushing outwards the production frontier . |
| 19 | This time it will almost certainly drop a wing , but just easing forwards a little will make a recovery . |
| 20 | So of course , after that , your uninsured , which is absolutely true , but at the same time , erm , you 're really just bringing forward the pay-out when it 's needed most . |
| 21 | No wonder , he 's just bringing home the British Open champion . ’ |
| 22 | In both the government and the opposition press in Morocco , the situation in the Western Sahara was meanwhile becoming increasingly a focus for nationalist commentary . |
| 23 | Just pausing there a minute , did you have did you I should say , have personal experience of that estate ? |
| 24 | As Beatrice and Orage became lovers , she worked for the paper , assuming increasing importance editorially and soon writing about a third of the contents herself as reviewer , poet , satirist and literary adviser . |
| 25 | This meant that the USA was actually borrowing overseas , although admittedly paying rather a low rate of interest in real terms ( after allowing for inflation , the real rate of interest on US Treasury bills was 1½ per cent per annum over the years 1960–6 ) . |
| 26 | So generally speaking then the children were taught to swim when they were little ? |
| 27 | ‘ Not many people run away wearing just a bathrobe . ’ |
| 28 | Alan Tonke who has set this one up says that it has n't been easy getting together a viable collection of items to auction . |
| 29 | Instead of him just buying purely the raw commodity , you can er , change the , the degree of processing erm , the quality of , of the product , erm , so there is some scope for different product differentiation , but certainly not the same scope that there is in manufactures . |
| 30 | She said she was just having just the usual drinking gear and er |