Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 36 | In these , Sophocles presents the hero as the noble man who is doomed to error and misery despite his wisdom and all his efforts ( Oedipus Rex ) , but who , through his great suffering , eventually wins the magical power of benediction beyond his death ( Oedipus at Colonus ) . |
| 37 | Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum . |
| 38 | It is with sincere people such as these in mind that this leaflet has been written — not to ride roughshod over a sincerely held belief but rather to confirm the absolute necessity of finding Purgatory , but not a Purgatory that is arrived at after death which is the popular view , but rather a Purgatory that is found before death which is the proper view according to God 's guide , the Holy Bible . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Viscous liquid oozed out like an alien blob and slowly enveloped the dented car . |
| 42 | San Antonio has since joined the small number of US museums which are now active on the antiquities market . |
| 43 | The Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology may be taken by successfully completing the first year and a literature project . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | The past approach — for instance , where they analysed statistics in terms of travel-to-work areas and lumped West Belfast and its massive levels of unemployment in with other areas and thereby diluted the whole thing down to 12 or 13% in the Belfast travel-to-work area which extended from Larne to Downpatrick — was n't helpful . |
| 46 | Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away . |
| 47 | While Pius XII 's encyclical Mystici Corporis brought back the concept of the Church as the body of Christ to the centre of Catholic teaching , it most remarkably avoided the slightest reference in this to the relationship between the Eucharistic body and the ecclesial body , and omitted the slightest notice of the basic Pauline text for that relationship , 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 48 | But if there is no more than that the creditor , in an attempt to satisfy itself that the surety properly understands the proposed transaction and that the transaction will not subsequently be impeachable , offers an explanation of the transaction and of the security document , I do not think that the creditor should be taken to have assumed a tortious duty of care . |
| 49 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | IBM Corp also duly announced the 2.1 release of OS/2 yesterday , describing it as an enhanced OS/2 32-bit operating system with support for Windows 3.1 applications , a new 32-bit graphics engine , 256-colour XGA and Super Video Graphics Adaptor device drivers , support for high-speed printers and some CD-ROM drives . |
| 52 | IBM Corp also duly announced the 2.1 release of OS/2 last week , describing it as an enhanced OS/2 32-bit operating system with support for Windows 3.1 applications , a new 32-bit graphics engine , 256-colour XGA and Super Video Graphics Adaptor device drivers , support for high-speed printers and some CD-ROM drives . |
| 53 | In the middle of this solemn crisis , Alan burst in : ‘ Have you a book on insect identification ? ’ — which effectively deflated the solemn mood . |
| 54 | Firstly he introduced new cars , including the De Luxe cars , new Pullman cars for the Fleetwood route and the famous toastracks which successfully operated the Circular Tour . |
| 55 | The data have been verified immunohistochemically using the monoclonal antibody Ki-67 to show a reduction in the labelling index . |
| 56 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 57 | Karita Mattila started on the flat side , but eventually developed the right glow and intensity . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | That college was the stronghold of the " child-centred " approach to teaching young children , but the schools in the London area which successfully demonstrated the Froebelian philosophy were few and far between . |
| 60 | 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 . |