Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of New York 's bridges are made using inadequately reinforced concrete . |
| 2 | Using loosely coupled multiprocessing imposes a few limitations , both on programmers and hardware . |
| 3 | The food is well-balanced and freshly prepared , using organically grown produce wherever possible , and there are qualified dieticians on hand to advise you . |
| 4 | By the end of the '70s many elements were fusing together making change in the way schools were run inevitable . |
| 5 | By pursuing only known sale opportunities , there is greater chance that the reactive approach will lead an acquiror into a formal sale process , where the vendor has appointed professional advisers to handle the transactions on its behalf . |
| 6 | By analysing these shifts , using econometrically estimated demand curves , it is hoped to identify which countries have improved since 1970 , and those that have suffered as a result . |
| 7 | It is worth considering incorporating thermally controlled roof vents . |
| 8 | in child language understanding always precedes production and , what is most important , the adult dealing with the child constantly modifies her output to be ahead of the structures which the child is producing ( Wells , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | A multi-hued fashion accessory collection , with sales contributing directly to rain forest projects , while our conservation incense sticks allow you to choose a cause close to your heart . |
| 10 | He absconds frequently , returning home to display acting-out tendencies . |
| 11 | He absconds frequently , returning home to display acting-out tendencies . |
| 12 | A husband who has a demanding job , and is used to returning home to find dinner ready to be put on the table , may be distinctly put out if his wife is upstairs helping his mother-in-law onto the commode instead . |
| 13 | I swung in a wide circle around the machine climbing slightly to loose speed and came in at him again from dead ahead and slightly above . |
| 14 | However , there are two significant additional factors : on the one hand the parents use sign language and therefore growth in the infants from gesture into sign ( rather than into speech ) is predicted , but on the other hand just over half of the sample infants are hearing and are acquiring both sign language and spoken English during this phase . |
| 15 | One of the few factors mirroring lead levels was age of the house , in inner cities often relating also to lead water pipes and old lead-based paint . |
| 16 | It was he , Clasper , who dictated to management the size of the labour force they would require to produce a given number of products , regardless of any figure which management might arrive at by employing accurately measured work standards . |
| 17 | Finance ministers and officials taking part in the meetings made it clear that the whole package of financial aid was conditional on the former Soviet republics pressing ahead to establish market economies and taking prescribed measures for stabilization . |
| 18 | Civil war in Somalia ; military dictatorship in Burma ; China listing Hong Kong residents to be arrested in 1997 , and repressing Tibet ; the former USSR in turmoil ; ex-Warsaw Pact countries , such as Poland , struggling desperately to install market economies ; Israel planting Jewish settlers in the west bank of Jordan ; Gadaffi determined that the two Lockerbie bombing suspects remain in Libya ; Iran upholding the Ayatollah 's fatwah against Salman Rushdie ; Saddam Hussein using every device to prevent UN inspectors from even seeing , let alone supervising , the destruction of the Iraqi capability to make nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Struggling desperately to regain control of her senses , Isabel forced herself to listen also , to silence the clamouring questions in her head . |
| 20 | It starts with the observation that Major is struggling desperately to gain stature and authority . |
| 21 | At the same time , this ethic-based explanation fits well into a particular corner of the general theory of social integration offered by Shils. though the gap between the very general theorising of Shils and the over-particular and superficial descriptions of Banfield is a result of the great difficulty this variant of pluralism has in achieving its declared aim of sustaining empirically based theory and empirical research guided by theory . |
| 22 | Satz ( 1977 ) has exposed the folly on probabilistic grounds of inferring right sided speech dominance in an individual with a left-sided ear advantage . |
| 23 | It abandoned incomes policy in the private sector , seeking only to keep pay increases to public employees tightly under control . |
| 24 | Centres have been used for cooperative curriculum development planning ( what in America would be called " curriculum workshops " ) , teachers in similar subject fields from a number of neighbouring schools meeting together to share inspiration , experience and effort . |
| 25 | IT probably wo n't be enough to save them from relegation to Division II , but Dundee HSFP reproduced some of last season 's promotion-winning style in regaining much lost pride at Mayfield on Saturday . |
| 26 | Ms Kiernan 's study shows that fewer than half of all single mothers living alone have access to a telephone , and a mere 15% to that essential tool of modern motherhood , a car . |
| 27 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 28 | Conventional radiocarbon dating normally requires sample sizes which will yield a minimum of 1 g of carbon . |
| 29 | The old chestnuts about blacks having weak ankles and heavy bones which militate against their achieving success in swimming still retain credibility in sporting circles , and there are other similar theories in abundance . |
| 30 | Thus , the proliferation stage of CFA may depend to large extent on mitogenic factors produced by the epithelium , including transforming growth factor , tumour necrosis factor , and ET-1 , acting synergistically to stimulate fibroblast growth and extracellular production . |