Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The review will provide evidence to support buying such a dedicated program or whether to carry on using the existing system . |
| 2 | It is only if theologians go on using the old equipment ( sun goes round earth etcetera ) that they fall out with the philosophers and scientists . |
| 3 | After Mao 's death and Jiang Qing 's fall , the ‘ moderate ’ regime of Deng accused Madame Mao and her associates in the Gang of Four of being the cause of all China 's woes , thereby sparing the late Chairman from the most bitter criticisms . |
| 4 | This means that we are effectively using the two-phase method , except that , where a choice of variable to enter the basis occurs in Phase I ( and such occurrences are very common ) , the choice is resolved by the true objective function . |
| 5 | Secondly , in the co-ordination of this strategy , it is believed that the NRC gives policing orders to local forces , thereby overruling the operational discretion of these local forces . |
| 6 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 7 | Grains of sand stick to this fluid which helps to hold the skin to the soil , thereby helping the pupating worm-lion to extricate itself . |
| 8 | The bishop had asked whether Huxley would prefer to think of himself descended from an ape on his grandfather 's or his grandmother 's side , thereby touching the sensitive nerve of female ancestry . |
| 9 | Thus , the preamble to the Company Act , 1988 , speaks of the purpose of the Act as being to create up-to-date legal forms , thereby assisting the income-earning capacity of the national economy , the development of a market-type production and distribution system , and the flow of capital ( including foreign capital ) in the economy . |
| 10 | The London Society implicitly recognises this when it goes on to argue that a DG would allow the president 's post to become part-time , thereby allowing the senior partner of a major practice to take it on . |
| 11 | Two-stage tendering , for instance , means negotiation with a contractor can progress at the same time as the production of detailed design information , thereby shortening the total period necessary in which to complete the pre-contract work . |
| 12 | It is also worth noting here that the only mid-Tertiary movements in northern Europe that can be called an orogeny are in Spitsbergen , where we find the last expression of an Atlantic compressive line clearly preserved down the west coast , presumably reflecting the continued grinding together of the northernmost tip of the European plate with that of Greenland . |
| 13 | After successfully completing the academic stage [ law degree , CPE or Diploma in Law ] and the Legal Practice Course you then have to undertake a two year training contract which will enable you to put into practice the knowledge and skills that you have learnt . |
| 14 | In the Republican contest , in which neither Buchanan nor Bush appeared on the ballot paper , a slate of uncommitted candidates won 31 per cent of the Republican vote , thereby underlining the widespread dissatisfaction felt towards Bush . |
| 15 | The data have been verified immunohistochemically using the monoclonal antibody Ki-67 to show a reduction in the labelling index . |
| 16 | She went to the stone sink , scrubbed her hands under the single cold tap and set off on her perambulations again , slowly circling the big pine table , moving in and out of the gibbous pool of light shed by the candles . |
| 17 | So in that last week the Irish lost two games , conceding 117 points , offering up 21 tries and rather wrecking the statistical side of the tour . |
| 18 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 19 | He said that the new system would give each working person in the colony a vote , thereby ending the privileged status of current constituency members . |
| 20 | If on the other hand , the stress is maintained , strain relief is sought by converting the excess free energy into heat , thereby stimulating the thermal motion of the segments back to their original positions . |
| 21 | In contrast , other writers abandon all pretence of detached objectivity and deliberately flaunt their presence , thereby foregrounding the subjective nature of their narrative . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Angus , East ( Mr. Welsh ) is merely parading the great terror in front of the farmers for his own purposes . |
| 23 | Operating with relatively little capital , aided by credit , with a small mark-up in prices but with rapid turnover of capital , these petty commercial middlemen penetrated deep into the village , constantly drawing the rural area into the orbit of cash turnover , increasing the role of the market in the economy of the village , and augmenting the volume of goods available both for domestic and foreign commerce . |
| 24 | Hot rumpy on the beach , with Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster inadvertently heralding the libidinous fury of the rock 'n' roll revolution that lay around the corner . |
| 25 | But , says Pflug , the move away from mainframes in favour of distributed computing environments is forcing change — business professionals are making more and more final information technology decisions , while computing personnel are merely shaping the technical side of the project . |
| 26 | It is possible , though not mandatory , to record this version for user information only using the LAST-CHECKED-ISSUE keyword . |
| 27 | On the other hand , if the particular person had never been missed or reported missing , their existence scarcely recorded in the great reference log of National Insurance and medical cards , passports and driving licences , if the chance of their even being named seemed thin , what obscure dentist was going to rise up suddenly producing the relevant chart ? |
| 28 | No sooner had she sunk down on one of the chesterfields than he was hunkering down in front of her , lifting her injured foot to rest on his knee , removing the shoe and gently touching the nylon-covered flesh beneath the delicate ankle-bone . |
| 29 | Which that , that then gets you into the issue of whether you are deliberately going to being creating a rich peasant economy and s erm so using the rich peasant economy as the leading sector . |
| 30 | That way the Clinton message was spread across the nation without Hillary obviously out-playing the traditional wife function . |