Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when the means of production are communally owned will classes disappear , thereby bringing an end to the exploitation and oppression of some by others . |
| 2 | If these manoeuvres were successful , the whole might of Russia could then be redeployed for an attack on central Germany , thereby bringing the war to an end . |
| 3 | The opportunities for successfully re-using a structure to which it is necessary to make major modifications in order to suit it to its new task are small , even with ironwork of exceptionally good quality . |
| 4 | The participants talked in abstract and theoretical terms , rarely relating the subject to the listeners ' experience . |
| 5 | Dulles precipitated the crisis by peremptorily withdrawing US financial aid for the Aswan Dam , thereby opening the door to the flow of Eastern Bloc arms and influence into the Middle East — the very situation that he had feared British colonial obduracy would create . |
| 6 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 7 | It was Aggie who now rose first from her chair and so bringing the conversation to an end by saying , ‘ Well , ma'am , I thank you for your hospitality , and also for your kindness to the child . |
| 8 | Let's hope the opposition are n't quite as bright as you seem to be , ’ he said , his words and the warmth of his smile suddenly bringing a flush to her cheeks . |
| 9 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 10 | The paper is clipped together by firm bulldog clips at the top edge of the required piece of hardboard , so allowing the charts to be turned over in an upwards direction . |
| 11 | Router movement can be solved by changing the holding bolts for longer ones with a fine thread and fitting very thick washers , so enabling the nuts to be fully tightened without the router getting in the way of the spanner . |
| 12 | Or is only pronouncing the element to be a metal ( or a non-metal ) classification ? |
| 13 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
| 14 | I would suggest that the government would be a lot , lot better adding a ticket to amounts of money , which said ‘ You either spend this money on implementing the Food Safety Act , or you do n't get it . ’ |
| 15 | The only doubt about this was raised by the Court of Appeal in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 where the court specifically left open the question whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired but is merely selling the knowledge to a third party ( see p79 above ) . |
| 16 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 17 | At issue is the FBI 's ability to wiretap in future … the FBI is not only asking the industry to dumb down existing software , it wants to prohibit it from developing new technologies that might interfere with the government 's ability to intercept various oral and electronic communications . ’ |
| 18 | THE young man filmed in the early hours of yesterday delightedly taking a pick-axe to the top of the Berlin Wall was a potent symbol of the destruction of 28 years of affront to freedom and of the potential dismantling of the system presided over until only a few weeks ago by its architect , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 19 | Linda Bloomfield , chief executive of Merseyside TEC , said : ‘ Businessmen 's time is in short supply so taking the show to them seemed a logical idea . ’ |
| 20 | We 've even opened up Nuremberg to charter flights , so creating the gateway to the New Federal States . |
| 21 | Other issues to be examined will be those involved in randomly selecting a person to be interviewed within a household and problems arising in mixed surveys where non telephone owners are interviewed face-to-face . |
| 22 | This is generated in a mixing system , situated above the column , by constantly increasing the solvent to non-solvent ratio and as the mixture is initially a poor solvent which is gradually enriched by the good solvent the low molar mass fractions are eluted first . |
| 23 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 24 | We have also explored the left-inclined critique of responsible party government and pluralism , so highlighting the extent to which theory is up against theory as much as any theory is assessed up against facts . |
| 25 | In the third , an associate of Abbott 's , a Jerome Hornsby , was at the Central Criminal Court in London also found guilty of libel , though the court accepted his plea that , in merely showing the pamphlet to a colleague , he had distributed it without malice . |
| 26 | BRIAN CLOUGH , the Nottingham Forest manager , is this morning pictured in several English-based newspapers apparently delivering a V-sign to the club 's supporters at the City Ground . |
| 27 | Typically overheating by 1°C increases energy consumption by 7 per cent , and so heating a building to 22°C rather than the statutory maximum of 19°C increases the amount of energy used by over 20 per cent . |
| 28 | However , organising a collective voice may perversely end up by only transferring the microphone to the voice of the elite . |
| 29 | The homoeopathic remedies with their powerful patterning effect , perhaps along the lines of cellular automata concepts , are visualized as spreading through the body and counteracting the imbalance , so restoring the tissues to harmony and balance . |
| 30 | If Ferguson is really searching for someone to put the finishing touch to his team 's chances and not his own , he would be better offering the job to one of these often maligned stabbers-in of trifles . |