Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unions would be effectively debarred from holding a strike ballot in support of workers already sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes . |
| 2 | Wynne-Jones eventually succeeded in starting a small fire . |
| 3 | Although iridology is used primarily as a means of detecting problems before other symptoms appear rather than as a way of treating those problems , many iridologists are also herbalists or homoeopaths and can go on to work towards effecting a cure . |
| 4 | The government eventually responded by imposing a new tax on the Syrian and Turkish trucks . |
| 5 | For instance , a child may become so fascinated by watching a car backing up the drive that she fails to realize the danger of being in its way . |
| 6 | The middle classes of this country will cling passionately to certain benefits that may necessarily arise from rejecting a socialist political system . |
| 7 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 8 | Trying to power it out he only succeeded in finding a fairway bunker . |
| 9 | There were boundaries as to how far he would go , but in his own way Branson was as much committed to creating a spectacle as McLaren and Reid , if for very different reasons . |
| 10 | Both parties adopted the name League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change , and announced that the LCY could only survive by embracing a clearly-defined democratic reform policy and by radically restructuring itself as a confederation of independent parties . |
| 11 | With enormous gains in the white-collar suburbs , Labour became the party of bureaucrats , administrators and a progressive intelligentsia , all predisposed to seeing a greater share of public control over an increasing range of national affairs . |
| 12 | I am so particularly pleased with these , that I should feel much gratified by possessing a duplicate copy of each . |
| 13 | Wright , attempting to clear a cross , only succeeded in sending a powerful header from 15 yards past a startled David James in the 68th minute . |
| 14 | It 's always been a Dark Force , and you 've only succeeded in harnessing a minuscule aspect of it . |
| 15 | To the south and south-east are the mountains on and beyond the frontier — not the major Pyrenean peaks as yet but five — or six-thousand-footers — and many dark , completely wooded valleys ; on the other side , to the north , better seen by carrying a bit further on along the road for Mauléon , there is another of the wonderful Pyrenean beech forests , the Forêt tea Arbailles , which masks a notoriously craggy , deeply perforated limestone plateau . |
| 16 | On one such occasion he was so moved by meeting a hopelessly wounded eighteen-year-old that he arranged , at his own expense , for the young soldier to see his mother . |
| 17 | Much depends on having a good provision of aids geared to the needs of those in residence , not ‘ hand me downs ’ from previous occupants , to maximise individual independence . |
| 18 | For words which occur frequently in searches , this may be better done by using a thesaurus-like structure , prepared using a ranked list of words actually used in searches , with their contexts . |
| 19 | We have all talked about finding a fair local government taxation system . |
| 20 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 21 | So used to having a great big thing , I am . |
| 22 | Middlesbrough 's Beechwood and Easterside Social Club have also stepped in to help by staging a gala night , and the local Robin Hood Hotel will boost funds with a snooker tournament . |
| 23 | The incident obviously jogged memories of the infamous time when the England captain Bobby Moore was wrongly accused of stealing a bracelet . |
| 24 | The prolonged procedure of appeal which the parents are entitled to embark upon in such circumstances can consume time and energy that would be better used in effecting a workable solution to placement problems . |
| 25 | ‘ And now , I think we 'd better see about keeping a special watch on the road . |
| 26 | When puppies for research were raised in isolation in laboratory , it was noticed that the ill-effects of such rearing could be somewhat offset by cutting a window into the side of their box so that they could see out into the busy laboratory . |
| 27 | " At first , " John went on , obviously bent on making a clean breast of everything , " at first when I tell him you a whore , he do n't believe me , so I got to make him believe . |
| 28 | If the overall effect is to increase profit but not volume the resources may be better utilized in creating a new product . |
| 29 | If the overall effect is to increase profit but not volume the resources may be better utilized in creating a new product . |
| 30 | For the best-managed banks can only gain by telling a fuller story . |