Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of these expectations , funds flow from short-term markets to long-term markets , thereby driving down long-term interest rates . |
| 2 | Many pressure groups set themselves the task of sedulously winning over influential opinion to their view of the future . |
| 3 | Some nuns and priests chose to go into the FMLN controlled zones where they are not only carrying out religious work but also helping in the educational campaigns . |
| 4 | Claire now conscious of rogue hairstyle , lopsidedly dangling over left eye . |
| 5 | Ricardo argued that population growth would bring lower grade agricultural land into production , thereby pushing up average food prices and diverting increasing social resources into landlords ' rents . |
| 6 | Simple as that , cos this plan , is like a sort of pay as you go type plan , I mean , you 're not building up huge cash reserves that you gon na lose out on , by cancelling early , |
| 7 | America says it is not ruling out military action against Iraq following its defiance of Gulf War ceasefire terms . |
| 8 | Much of the impetus behind such thinking has come from dowsers who realized that they were not just picking up underground water but something else , which they called telluric force . |
| 9 | Where order is concerned , it appears that teachers are disrespected not only for not meting out appropriate punishment when deserved ( within the official theory ) , but also for not exercising discipline within the classroom . |
| 10 | This would parallel any company policy on not giving out personal telephone numbers but instead routing calls through the switchboard . |
| 11 | This does not indicate that firms are not carrying out adequate audit work but that appropriate quality control and quality assurance procedures are not in place in all cases . ’ |
| 12 | Du Pont Pixel which has developed the XGL library for Sun , is already rolling out OGI-compliant hardware and software , and launched its Sbus accelerator board at the SunExpo last week . |
| 13 | The Wedding Present have often talked about their ambivalent attitude towards chart success but just missing out upset manager Brian Hallin who complained to NME that Gallup had ‘ moved the goal posts around . ’ |
| 14 | Macintyre from Milton Keynes has decided to rub shoulders to challenge the professionals at showing off and hopefully selling off high class quality work . |
| 15 | Still feeding off nineteenth-century optimism and belief in the Empire , millions of young British soldiers perished under the combined efforts of the machine and the Continental mud . |
| 16 | They are ideal for quickly taking off old paint from large flat areas or wood or metal . |
| 17 | We 're always finding out new evidence . |
| 18 | The introduction of the microcomputer , and in particular the BBC range , is also bringing about fundamental change and development within the curriculum . |
| 19 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 20 | Gregarious , often feeding over fresh water . |
| 21 | A principal reason for this interest is the failure of rule-based linguistics to produce a general purpose , intelligent language processor capable of adequately performing a number of rather basic linguistic tasks ( e.g. taking down unrestricted text , non-robotic reading aloud , making a precis of a text ) ( Sharman , 1990 ) . |
| 22 | Our travellers also noticed that the highly profitable Japanese office automation lines , sold in the home market and historically proprietary , are now taking on new Unix guises . |
| 23 | The company is now setting up similar paint ventures within other car plants , not just in America . |
| 24 | Before and after his marriage , Nicholson could date happily without fear of a single solitary piece of salacious writing in any newspaper or magazine — ‘ complete anonymity in social exchange ’ was the way he described his situation — or , as a further succinct explanation , ‘ I was able to go around picking up stray pussy . ’ |
| 25 | But it worked perfectly , returning 3,000 pieces of information per second and even sending back useful information about the van Allen belts . |
| 26 | This may be achieved either by spreading fixed costs or overheads ( eg by sharing research and development expenditure ) or by rationalisation ( ie cutting out inefficient production capacity ) . |
| 27 | It seems the original X Consortium , scheduled to get a new director in January and slowly dissociate itself from MIT over the next year , is n't evolving fast enough into a fleet-footed marketing vehicle or even churning out saleable technology quickly enough to suit everybody . |
| 28 | yeah , they have difficulty then picking up new material |
| 29 | A newly-blazed path leaves the Gaping Gill area and climbs to the ridge high above in the west , there passing over Little Ingleborough to reach the main summit half a mile further on . |
| 30 | Celltech made a loss of £1.9 million last year , much of which went on setting up new research projects . |