Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would allow a larger number of glucose units to enter the gut , thereby allowing uptake of sodium ions via the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter at a higher rate , and hence allowing speedier reabsorption of water from the gut lumen . |
| 2 | Why had Shirley Brown had to mention the point on her brief visit to him earlier that morning , and sowed those slowly germinating seeds of doubt ? |
| 3 | A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage . |
| 4 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 5 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 6 | The Federal Assembly on April 20 voted by a large majority to accept a proposal to rename the state the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic ( CSFR ) , thereby ending weeks of controversy over the issue . |
| 7 | I had to keep on signing bits of paper which were meant to list my property , but I had no opportunity to read anything . |
| 8 | For much of this year , Glover 's drawn face has matched his prematurely greying shock of hair . |
| 9 | ‘ Experiments of nature ’ , the naturally occurring fluctuations of life experience , have therefore been resorted to , but though these have raised some intriguing questions they have so far provided few conclusive answers . |
| 10 | It may not be possible to adequately define ‘ damage ’ to the environment , or even to detect it , when the environmental impact of a genetically engineered bacterium may be as undramatic as replacing a naturally occurring species of bacterium . |
| 11 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 12 | It is plain from Locke 's examples that they ( or , strictly , the things of which they are ideas ) are naturally occurring kinds of material thing or stuff . |
| 13 | Red fish ( such as herring , sardines , kippers , and salmon ) are a reasonable , naturally occurring source of vitamin D. Eggs supply some of this nutrient , but not as much as red fish ; because eggs are relatively high in saturated fat they should not be the main source of vitamin D. Margarine has this vitamin added , but again is not the preferred source because a good eating regime should not be too high in fat . |
| 14 | The drawl of Judge Thomas Longhorne Colpeper , pompously expounding points of law ; the gentle Detroit brogue of Trooper Washington Burnside , whose gun she still carried ; the primal shriek of Cheeks , who had been maddened by the D.I.V.O.R.C.E . |
| 15 | The organisation has developed an assessment package which enables members to determine their quality positioning against internationally recognised role models and it runs common interest working parties where member companies can work together solving problems of quality progression and sharing knowledge and experience over such issues as benchmarking and the cost of non-conformance with quality . |
| 16 | For some of them , eagerly selling six-packs of beer on street corners , the new Berlin is full of opportunities . |
| 17 | Directly accessing the experience of service users avoids inadvertently confounding measures of process and outcome ; where evaluations have used measures of , for example , individual programme goals achieved it may be that the result owes more to staff activity ( in this case , in setting achievable goals ) than to real differences in client experience ( de Kock et al. , 1988 ; Repp and Barton , 1980 ) . |
| 18 | Even fewer can appreciate in advance the effect , not just of the structures , but of the constantly moving stresses of traffic on them . |
| 19 | When a foot is damaged , the volley of nerve impulses produced by the damage and arriving in the spinal cord sets up a long lasting increase of excitability which shows up as an exaggerated flexion reflex , among other changes . |
| 20 | Bush promised legislation " this year " setting specific goals and timetables for the reduction of acid rain pollution , a long running source of disagreement between the two countries . |
| 21 | I mean one of the problems and also perhaps losing benefit of housing . |
| 22 | The two processes are , so to speak , symbiotically related ; they are the mutually reinforcing determinants of development . |
| 23 | Only unappetizing parts of animal carcasses remained for the domestic market . |
| 24 | Lastly , the GCSE requires pupils to wait for the length of a two-year course before they can know whether they have been successful , whereas a record of achievement is only the most recent and perhaps summarizing statement of progress which the pupils themselves have monitored and recorded . |
| 25 | At this time of my life I was eagerly reading books of travel and adventure such as Luigi Barzini 's Peking to Paris by Motor Car , but my favourite writer was Salgari , who was a sort of Italian Jules Verne . |
| 26 | The Oxford Dictionary of the English Church ( Oxford , reprint 1985 ) is a valuable aid , especially regarding details of church dignitaries and holders of high religious office . |
| 27 | More than one focus can be adopted in any given essay , and different modes of argument can be combined ; the evaluation of Invisible Man could involve a stylistic argument , so combining mode of argument ( a ) and mode of argument ( b ) . |
| 28 | Long standing prisoners of conscience Vera and the late Orton Chirwa , who had received no visitors for eight years before the delegation met them . |
| 29 | Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears . |
| 30 | Sam King in Sounds said : ‘ No concessions at all — the bass is as bossy as ever , a constantly straining leash of rhythm , while Gedge 's guitar is as irritating as it 's always been . ’ |