Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides helping to unravel the myriad interactions between adolescent development and social and occupational structures , the initiative will also be seeking answers to practical policy questions in the fields of education , training and employment . |
| 2 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't try that yet , ’ said Fenella , who was rather enjoying riding the horse , but was not sure how she might get on with whatever was a gallop . |
| 4 | CASS was also encouraging the development of part-time degrees , a policy which won an expression of DES approval for these and other CNAA efforts in this direction , since they would appeal to married women wishing to return to study ( and presumably helping to solve a shortage of school teachers ) . |
| 5 | The competition lacked the prestige of the League Championship , and its future looked uncertain as one club after another abandoned it by successfully applying to enter the Football League — Bristol City in 1901 , Chelsea in 1905 , Fulham in 1907 and Tottenham in 1908 . |
| 6 | Outside investors are apparently clamouring to have a share of the service , which is expected to launch later this year . |
| 7 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 8 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 9 | In cases of noteworthy personal achievement such as the award of a swimming trophy to a disabled pupil the governors may consider it entirely fitting to mention the name , but care must be taken not to introduce an undesirable element of competition or rivalry . |
| 10 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 11 | Five of those arrested in July were apparently meeting to plan a commemoration of the anniversary of the death of the PALIPEHUTU leader , Remy Gahutu , in prison in Tanzania in August 1990 . |
| 12 | The ethnic Albanian ministers had been tendering their resignations one by one since late March [ ibid. ] , and in passing a vote of confidence in the Kosovo government the provincial Assembly was apparently acting to prevent the government being left in the hands solely of its ethnic Serb members . |
| 13 | Most of these potential customers are buying shrink-wrapped applications and dental practices are not suddenly going to employ a couple of CICS programmers to develop and maintain a bespoke system . |
| 14 | George III favoured the Tories , and in so going attracted the criticism of Whigs and radicals . |
| 15 | He was only going to see a man whose address I gave him — a creditor , I believe . ’ |
| 16 | After playing catch-me-if-you-can for so long , it looks as though Sun Microsystems Inc is only going to get a month 's headstart over the pack of Sparc-compatible builders which will be gunning for its superscalar Sparcstation 10 market — if US firm Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , Columbus , Ohio , has its way . |
| 17 | dude , cos I 'm only going to get the piss taken out of my hair are n't I ? |
| 18 | You ca n't possibly have it on a verb , and that 's another little rule you might like to think of , that you 're only going to get the apostrophe on a noun , and you will never get an apostrophe on a pronoun . |
| 19 | In fact , I was only going to stay a couple of years and move on , but … but I met you and I knew right from the beginning what was going to happen to me ; and it 's grown over these months during our supposedly accidental meetings here . |
| 20 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 21 | We were only going to have an hour together . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , they 're different , but you 're only going to have the variation on three of the strings ; the three plain strings are going to feel pretty similar . |
| 23 | Thus it can be argued that although the courts proclaim that in reviewing the decisions of an administrative body they are merely attempting to keep the body within the jurisdiction conferred upon it by Parliament , in fact they do sometimes explicitly justify their decisions by reference to the expertise or lack of expertise of the body whose decision it is sought to review . |
| 24 | I was merely going to ask the Chief why he sent for me this morning . ’ |
| 25 | AN ULSTER teenager was in a spin last week after prematurely celebrating winning a brand new car in a prize draw at a local disco . |
| 26 | As the train halted , the man was standing on the platform , obviously waiting to board the train for the return journey . |
| 27 | SO HOW did they break the news to a joyful populace , eagerly waiting to hear the outcome of Margaret Hilda versus The Fossil ( © the Sun ) ? |
| 28 | ‘ Today you are all going to do an experiment on impression formation . |
| 29 | ‘ I know you 're all going to take the piss out of me if I tell you what I honestly thought . ’ |
| 30 | My granddaughter is safe at our table with Jane , and in a moment we 're all going to watch the firework display . ’ |