Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , it 's , it 's better roll than keep on using the thumb to get you out of the keyboard but , if , I do n't want it to spoil |
| 2 | We carried on using the encyclopedia to make plans , taking ourselves out of that room to beautiful , exotic places , places of joyful freedom , sailing oceans , crossing mountain ranges and doing something worthwhile . |
| 3 | The shareholders are thereby given the power to judge for themselves whether the directors are using their managerial powers for their own benefit at the expense of the company and if this is so to veto the transaction or at least hold the director liable for any profits thereby made . |
| 4 | As the board leaves the wave , use the front foot to lift the windward rail , thereby encouraging the wind to catch under the board and giving more lift . |
| 5 | Throughout his travels he had met and been impressed by fellow globetrotters from China , and had slowly formulated a plan to create a thorough visual documentation of Chinese civilisation . |
| 6 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 7 | Plaques with individual or corporate names , will form the centre piece and invitations are extended to those with Lisburn associations , to purchase one , thereby helping the club to secure its future , ’ said chairman Cecil Walker . |
| 8 | In Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v Nattrass , a shop manager of a large supermarket chain with considerable managerial powers , was held to be " another person " , thereby allowing the company to escape liability for a breach of the TDA 1968 when a misleading price offer was displayed due to his failure to check it . |
| 9 | Holders of the prefs will forego dividends in return for 13.7 per cent compound growth over the trust 's seven years , thereby allowing the managers to increase dividends to ordinary shareholders who will hold two-thirds of the capital . |
| 10 | A simultaneous thinning and shrinking of the sea ice lessens its albedo , or reflectivity , thereby allowing the oceans to absorb more heat from the sun . |
| 11 | If this explained Mason 's reluctance to pressure Biggs in the middle rounds , thereby allowing the American to pepper him with jabs , it can not obscure the possibility that the British heavyweight will always experience difficulty if required to take on a long contest . |
| 12 | The DCs were attached to the package under the name of the senior programmer , and became ‘ active ’ , thereby allowing the modification to proceed . |
| 13 | You can unhook by taking the weight of the rig back on to your arms , thereby allowing the rope to fall out of the hook . |
| 14 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 15 | Holding a dog properly to enable a vet to make the injection requires skill and , on some occasions , a veterinary nurse may not be there to help . |
| 16 | The covenant , the breach of which is complained of , expressly forbids the tenant to permit the premises to be used for such a purpose … |
| 17 | The effect of this was that young fans rarely got the opportunity to travel on the Supporters ' Club coaches and , since travelling by British Rail was often a hazardous and expensive venture , alternative arrangements were needed . |
| 18 | Glaxo has since delayed the launch to await product approvals but it 's a massive project and will take out rigid packaging business forward very quickly when it comes on stream — probably late this year . |
| 19 | She felt the chemistry and remarkably made no attempt to fight it . |
| 20 | I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months . |
| 21 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 22 | If a third State has the right to refuse to accept an obligation contained within a treaty , it presumably has the right to accept it upon conditions . |
| 23 | But baseball is sure eventually to find a way to put its financial house in order . |
| 24 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 25 | She vigorously massaged the area to distribute the drug through his body more quickly . |
| 26 | Management control thereby has a tendency to become more centralized . |
| 27 | Through the Standing Committee on Library Materials on Africa , the library additionally has an obligation to maintain collections on Zambia and Malawi . |
| 28 | Ahead of us I could hear the noise of the waterfall — there had been plenty of rain and when we arrived at the foss , the beck that eventually joins the Ure to travel down Wensleydale was hammering over the lip of the force . |
| 29 | In Indonesia , Gabon and Syria LASMO has no ownership interest in oil and gas reserves , but rather has the right to receive production and/or revenues from the sale of oil , condensate , gas , liquefied natural gas and petroleum gas in accordance with PSCs and other agreements . |
| 30 | TRACE ON causes the interpreter to print executed line numbers when it encounters them . |