Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 2 | A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not . |
| 3 | Since she is illiterate , reading of the Bible is ruled out , but , in whatever activity she finds herself , she can pursue prayer and meditation in meekness , and faith in the teachings of the Church , and the same " continuel desire to God " that he advocated in Mixed Life ( 41.472 ) here stressed as an inner dynamic , where she is never idle " bot alwey liftand up hert by desire to God and to blisse of heuen " ( 22.296a. – 96 ) . |
| 4 | The increases were slow to develop , apparently ruling out proteins as immediate retrograde messengers . |
| 5 | However , he said , his commission was empowered only to investigate matters directly related to the " current " violence , apparently ruling out investigation of past incidents . |
| 6 | Income tax is by far the most important direct tax , alone contributing almost 26% of government receipts . |
| 7 | The index is invaluable to the person who is merely seeking out information on a limited topic . |
| 8 | ‘ Why ? ’ demanded Meredith , leaning towards him and impatiently pushing back strands of red hair that were wisping across her face . |
| 9 | Medeva 's OTC products were only turning over £4–4.5m including exports , so they were not viable in this cut throat business . |
| 10 | As we stumble in , Mad Richard from Verve is inadvertently pulling down chunks of the ceiling . |
| 11 | Oceanic drift-nets are literally wiping out life over huge tracts of the world 's oceans . |
| 12 | Because we are conditioned to thinking of retirement as a time for settling into a new home , many people up sticks without perhaps giving enough thought to such essentials as proximity to family and friends and whether a different area would provide the same scope for pursuing their interests . |
| 13 | Semiconductor industry top ten tables show the Japanese industry apparently taking over leadership from the USA around 1985 . |
| 14 | Somewhere in between are good plants for small gardens , only reaching about 2ft with a far daintier habit . |
| 15 | Many of those trainees go to smaller firms , perhaps taking over positions of responsibility or even taking over from the owners when they die and thus continuing the industry 's good work . |
| 16 | Do we have any feedback from any other local parties or the National Party are they recommending it or they only putting out feelers to local parties and ask what what we feel about it ? |
| 17 | It is , of course , open to the occupier to regulate the right to possession of lost property by contract with the entrant ; it remains to be seen whether merely putting up notices at the entrance declaring that lost property is to vest in the occupier will be an effective manifestation of the intent to control required by Parker 's case . |
| 18 | ‘ My homesite was Cape Wrath but before I ever made my first flight a Man came and … ’ and he began to tell her his story , of the Zoo , of the Cages , of the Men there and his sudden escape … only leaving out mention of the other eagles in the Cages for in his heart he knew their pride would ask that he did not mention their names to a free eagle , nor would they wish for pity from outside . |
| 19 | While only offering about 20ft of new climbing , it solves the main challenge of the capping roof : a formidable test piece with potentially fatal consequences in the event of a fall . |
| 20 | Ray , a Veterans Athletic Club road and cross-country runner , has been slowly picking up speed during his first six or seven years back in the sport and he 's now a top-ranked man . |
| 21 | On either side of the steep trail down again , at the end of the hill , grazing ponies lined the track — presumably filling in time between summers , when they earn their living giving children rides up and down the beach . |
| 22 | Although Selina 's career was still in its infancy , she was already building up barriers against the outside world . |
| 23 | Performance-related pay for general practitioners ( GPs ) — an innovation bitterly resisted by the British Medical Association — is already driving up rates of childhood immunisation and of testing for cervical cancer . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , it squarely embodies an assumption that causal laws are correlations , thus ruling out reference to structures and structural forces to explain the correlations . |
| 25 | She was mistaken only in not tearing up shots of other religious leaders also . |
| 26 | As the diesel train came in and people were already picking up suitcases from the platform Moran turned and kissed her as if it were a last good night to all the nights she had come to him . |
| 27 | By the age of ten he had taken to dreamily wandering around areas of Stretford and Hulme not normally reserved for the vision of one so young . |
| 28 | Dick or Doug Graham originated from Corby in Northampton and , even as a young lad , was soon picking up honours for his performances as a goalkeeper . |
| 29 | Just spilling out memories of Pa right back to her childhood eased away some of the pain and she was able to relax a little . |
| 30 | But it is more likely that Treasury officials are just sounding out reaction to possible measures . |