Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The useful , though subordinate , role which litigation might be expected to play in this mobilisation process extends to publicising areas of law such as tax diversion which stand in need of reform , and so helping to politicise the issues and raise the general level of political awareness on the part of peace protesters and the general public alike . |
| 6 | Victor , fatter and balder and more like a bilious little hippo than ever , was obviously enjoying playing the O'Briens off against the Mendozas . |
| 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 | In my part of the country — the county which I represent in part is not the only one in this position — Labour-controlled local authorities are still adamantly refusing to release the data to the general public . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions . |
| 12 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | George III favoured the Tories , and in so going attracted the criticism of Whigs and radicals . |
| 15 | Pills and potions are only going to remove the symptoms . |
| 16 | dude , cos I 'm only going to get the piss taken out of my hair are n't I ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was merely going to ask the Chief why he sent for me this morning . ’ |
| 21 | As the train halted , the man was standing on the platform , obviously waiting to board the train for the return journey . |
| 22 | 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 ) ? |
| 23 | ‘ I know you 're all going to take the piss out of me if I tell you what I honestly thought . ’ |
| 24 | My granddaughter is safe at our table with Jane , and in a moment we 're all going to watch the firework display . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I think we were all going to pay the price for that ’ , said a member of one of Perth 's oldest families . |
| 26 | Traoré and his wife Mariam were arrested by soldiers at a military air base near Bamako in the early hours of March 26 , apparently attempting to leave the country . |
| 27 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 28 | Although he vehemently denied being a fascist , merely wishing to purge the Conservatives of all Jewish influence , his unparliamentary statements expressed to the NL and his connection with the Tyler Kent affair in 1940 left considerable room for doubt . |
| 29 | My father had proceeded to stand there for some moments , saying nothing , merely holding open the door . |
| 30 | She was on Beth 's heels all the way back to the drawing room , and now , when Beth was seated in the big armchair and eagerly slitting open the envelope with the tortoise-shell letter-knife , Cissie was kneeling on the floor beside her . |