Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When used on a daily basis , food digestion is greatly improved ensuring that essential dietary elements are assimilated by the horse in the most effective manner ; thereby helping maintain balanced growth . |
| 2 | Among other things , they have been shown to help lower blood cholesterol levels and make the blood less ‘ sticky ’ , thereby helping to prevent coronary heart disease . |
| 3 | The electric advertising board has three-sided vertical panels , endlessly rotating to show repeating ads . |
| 4 | Here the argument is that correctionalists are helping to divert attention away from the ‘ real ’ problems , rather than that they are necessarily helping to crush revolutionary potential . |
| 5 | Could have said , if if if the finances of that , depends on selling alcohol , then , I think it 's time Norwich City Council made a stand , and say we 're only going to sell non-alcoholic drinks . |
| 6 | It would be better , she felt , if John were to work with Shirley , the typist , as he was only going to do odd jobs . |
| 7 | So much so in fact that 20 minutes into the second-half they led 16–12 before they eventually succumbed to a Malone scoring spree — gifting Malone two late tries after foolishly attempting to run poor quality ball from deep inside their own 25 . |
| 8 | Then , using Lemma 3 , we have for general P , Q , R : unc Now because the few elements F of the first set which are not of the form unc are easily proved ( using the laws ) equivalent to ones that are , using the laws , e.g. unc By our assumption that the result holds for finite processes this in turn is equal to unc Since we are in the process of setting up powerful machinery for dealing with finite programs ( for example Theorem 1 ) there are advantages in only having to prove new laws for them . |
| 9 | Those who bemoan the weakening of the governmental role of parliaments are not only failing to bear English history in mind where Parliament never had that role , they are forgetting continental history as well . |
| 10 | Breach of the partnership agreement It is usual to specify certain provisions of particular importance ( eg failing to maintain proper accounts or actions which might cause the firm to lose its investment business certificate ) the breach of which would enable the power of expulsion to be exercised and , in a further ground , to refer in more general terms to persistent and general failure to observe the spirit of the agreement . |
| 11 | The ‘ racial ’ criminal subcultures of each group are seen to wantonly violate the laws and customs which express the civilization of the national community and in so doing provide powerful symbols which express black difference as a whole . |
| 12 | Should her promise to refrain from so doing constitute good consideration ? |
| 13 | This may be less damaging overall than the psychological effects of feeling alienated from normal school life , by constantly having to avoid certain classes or not eat school food . |
| 14 | Any teacher is constantly having to make difficult value judgements . |
| 15 | Many large firms will have official anti-discrimination policies , although the personnel management at local level may practice discrimination , perhaps avoiding hiring black workers or laying them off first in time of recession . |
| 16 | But erm , in a sense both of those are subsidiary to the general erm , point of the recommendation of the motion of the debate , which is that , erm , since we 're entreatingly trying to set corporate priorities and a corporate policy for this council , certain voluntary sector organisations such as C A B and C R , C R E's , clearly work in that sort of field , and clearly have the sort of objectives which fit , which may fit into our own corporate objectives . |
| 17 | Despite some discussion of possible links with the United States in certain Middle Eastern questions , they were jealously trying to exclude American influence from their African empire . |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman is merely trying to raise obscure scares about our proposals when he knows from his own visit to the association that the policy is extremely popular with all the principals and that his statement — that the colleges would be given back to his friends in Labour councils — was greeted with widespread dismay there . |
| 19 | We can see him as it were constantly restraining his inventiveness , constantly trying to conform to an orthodox view against which his thoughts and emotions rebel , constantly trying to justify Chinese intelligence by dragging it a little nearer to some Western precedent . |
| 20 | You would n't be able to write anything with any merit at all if you were constantly trying to portray certain groups in a favourable light . ’ |
| 21 | These will probably be things that they would have kept as a matter of course in their store cupboard in earlier days , but have gradually dropped off their shopping list as they grew older and only had themselves to cook for ; so there is no question of giving them new ideas — only trying to revive old ones , which may tempt them to prepare more varied and nourishing meals to achieve a balanced diet . |
| 22 | ‘ He was only tryin' to make polite conversation with you about the keyboards . |
| 23 | They were on the brow of a little hill and Sara walked farther on to look down on the county spread in front of her , idly trying to recognise familiar landmarks — It was a travel-ad view — neat lush fields , trim hedgerows , a farmhouse nestling in amongst its windbreak of trees , a sheet of yellow on the far hills where a field of mustard was in bloom , and for the rest , a thousand different shades of the greens of high summer , a piece of England basking in the sun and as beautiful as any foreign strand . |
| 24 | It 's bad enough trying to persuade 168-pin chip to part company with its socket — I ca n't imagine the grey hairs that 'll result from trying to insert an expensive 238-pin one in its place ! |
| 25 | It was reported in the press in April 1993 that the Government had backed down on its proposals under industry pressure and was merely proposing to strengthen existing legislation by giving wider investigatory powers to the OFT and by granting power to the Director General of Fair Trading to grant interim orders prohibiting abuses of market power . |
| 26 | Trading is still tough , but Watmoughs now detects some scope for selective price increases and the devalued pound is already helping win new contracts , especially against German printers . |
| 27 | The fluid produced by the sanitizer contains a scale inhibitor to prevent the build up of encrusted deposits , a cleaning agent to help keep surfaces clean ( thus helping to prevent bacterial adhesion ) , and the regular dosing of the fluid ensures the maintenance of sanitary conditions , even in areas of heavy use . |
| 28 | ‘ Ay , I wis just goin' to say wee Becky 's seven the day . ’ |
| 29 | Admittedly we find Abraham as early as chapter 13 walking through the length and breadth of the Promised Land , thus appearing to take legal possession of it . |
| 30 | I did n't look too closely at any of the bits and pieces lying around , squinting at them from the side of my eye , wanting and not wanting to see bloody meat or tattered clothing . |