Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had experience in administering effectively a large public museum ; he has demonstrated skills in fund-raising ; and thirdly , we get the bulk of our annual budget from Congress , and Rusty got the bulk of his budget ( $15 million a year ) from the Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles and showed great skill in dealing with them . |
| 2 | BSL therefore stores story information and re-tells it in a way which would occur for all languages , but spoken language surface structure ( reflecting only a specific point in time and context ) would tend to hide this in its effort for reconstruction of meaning . |
| 3 | Some see it as reflecting only an odd set of ancient taboos . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 5 | We have discussed how the requirement for external confidentiality will limit the approach to potential purchasers and the consequential sale strategy which will involve contacting only a small number of potential purchasers , most of which are likely to be foreign companies . |
| 6 | Two or three numbers might be required as input to a calculation lasting several hours , impossible to accomplish except by computer and producing only a small volume of output . |
| 7 | The race has always been known as le grand boucle , the great belt , a circuit binding together a large and various country whose distant regions — Provence and Picardy , Brittany and Savoy — knew little of each other . |
| 8 | Steadily , then , over the two years or so following Herr Bremann 's death , his lordship , together with Sir David Cardinal , who became his closest ally during that time , succeeded in gathering together a broad alliance of figures who shared the conviction that the situation in Germany should not be allowed to persist . |
| 9 | For example , by good care a patient may be made less severely ill and , therefore , may have a lower actual mortality while , at the same time , accumulating only a low APACHE score with low predicted mortality . |
| 10 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 11 | The development , important to the company 's portability strategy and to developers interested in maintaining only a single application , addresses the multiplication of platforms and graphical user interfaces in the marketplace . |
| 12 | But Henry II took into his own hands the county of Cornwall and all the Earl 's estates in England , Wales and Normandy and kept them to provide for his youngest son John , allowing only a small portion to go to Reginald 's daughters . |
| 13 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 14 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 15 | Projects provide a useful means of bringing together a wide range of skills and for integrating different activities within a module . |
| 16 | APERTURE No.98 , " Western Spaces " , addressed landscape , bringing together a critical article by Lewis Baltz on the CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES of Edward Weston , an essay by Robert Adams on the legacy from the nineteenth century pioneers of landscape photography in the United States , and selections of photographs by David Avison , Richard Misrach , Art Sinsabaugh , William Clift , Frank Gohlke , Robert Adams , Edward Ranney , Lawrence McFarland , Mark Klett — including his work for the " Rephotographic Survey " undertaken by the University of New Mexico , Marilyn Bridges , Terry Husebye , David Hockney , NASA and Emmet Gowin ( a strikingly different interpretation of Mount St. Helen 's from Frank Gohlke 's ) . |
| 17 | An IT system is one which satisfied the information requirements of an enterprise by bringing together a relevant combination of technologies which capture , generate , transfer , store or process information . |
| 18 | Niall Cooper , the national organiser , said that the lobby had been a tremendous team effort , bringing together a unique alliance of Church leaders , Christian organisations , tenants and people in housing need . |
| 19 | The membership of the teams is bringing together a unique combination of experience and expertise in developing services for carers . |
| 20 | For what it 's worth , Silicon Graphics Inc and MIPS Computer Systems Inc are understood to be drawing together a new executive-level technical committee of the Advanced Computing Environment . |
| 21 | Symptoms of anxiety may be controlled with practice using only a mild sensation of pain such as that created by digging your fingernails lightly into the palm of your hands , or pinching your earlobe , or gently biting your tongue or cheek . |
| 22 | Using only a small sample of children , we ( Denvir and Brown , 1986 ) developed an oral and practical diagnostic assessment to assess ‘ low attaining ’ 7–9 year olds ' understanding of number . |
| 23 | However , it has been my experience that composition students do not sufficiently exploit their harmonic knowledge , often using only a limited vocabulary . |
| 24 | In longer pieces composers often use varied keys , so as to have a more chromatic language at their disposal and to avoid the stagnation of using only a limited selection of notes . |
| 25 | These BSL interpreters appeared to be using only a single register , and this corresponded to a signed version closely tied to the English of the original message . |
| 26 | Detection of ∼ 1 ng of CREB and ATF1 is easily achieved using only a short autoradiographic exposure and is therefore highly sensitive . |
| 27 | French doctors have treated dozens of patients in minutes using only a local anaesthetic . |
| 28 | A great deal can be done using only an undifferentiated notion of abnormality , especially in conjunction with suitable ‘ diagnostic frames ’ ( see below ) ; but it will not have escaped the notice of the attentive reader that the ( a ) sentences in 17–21 above are all odd in different ways . |
| 29 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 30 | She thought that she was becoming rather an accomplished liar . |