Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The much ampler statistics for Suffolk and Coventry bear out this superficial impression , besides underlining the primacy of the woollen textile industry . |
| 2 | In this situation the circulation was altered so that a cold polar vortex remained until the end of the simulation , thereby maintaining the presence of PSCs for a much longer period . |
| 3 | In Great Britain , and especially midlands England , the enclosure movement involved the use of Parliamentary Acts to alter the pattern of land ownership ( forcibly in many cases ) , thereby allowing the creation of a new pattern of farms and fields within which more productive ( and less labour intensive ) agricultural methods could be employed . |
| 4 | Duly completing the acknowledgement of service is recommended . |
| 5 | It was probably the success of these steps which , in 1337 , caused Philip VI to decide upon the building of a naval base at La Rochelle , a base which was to be ceded to the English by the terms of the treaty of Brétigny , thereby underlining the significance of ports as pawns in international diplomacy . |
| 6 | It is possible to reconstruct some of the clothing in part through the textile remains in graves , but mostly using the position of dress fasteners such as brooches and buckles ( Cook 1974 ; Bell 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Jones claimed to have good title by virtue of the two sections , thereby defeating the title of the owner from whom the thieves had stolen the car . |
| 8 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 9 | But even in the teeth of a recession , companies large and small are successfully gaining the backing of the venture capital funds and paying them back handsomely . |
| 10 | Even in the teeth of a recession , companies large and small are successfully gaining the backing of the venture capital funds and paying them back handsomely |
| 11 | He seemed unaware that he was thereby announcing the demise of his own service , and indeed for at least some years entertained the illusion that he was not . |
| 12 | ( Edited by John Evans , available from focuses on the 150th anniversary of Canterbury Week with a short history of the festival , and an editorial criticising the TCCB for beginning Championship games on a Tuesday , thereby interfering the structure of such festival weeks . |
| 13 | Writing also provides a permanent representation , hence the writing may be manually edited , thereby simplifying the identification of false starts . |
| 14 | The Millbank paper-mill and its equipment were eventually offered for sale by auction in October 1804 , thereby ending the possibility of England challenging the European paper industry by using more easily available materials for making paper . |
| 15 | In that case Lord Denning argued that the Court of Appeal should issue guidelines similar to those of the House of Lords in the 1966 Practice Statement , thereby enabling the Court of Appeal to depart from its own previous decision where the decision was wrong ; in other circumstances it would hold itself bound by Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co . |
| 16 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |
| 17 | At first Folly had thought of reversing the roles , nervously picturing the arrival of a furious Luke , and the subsequent scene . |
| 18 | The spread of global issues is slowly opening the business of managing new share issues to outside competition — years after stockmarkets have been liberalised . |
| 19 | The penal code listed all criminal offences , thereby eliminating the position of Roman-Dutch criminal law as the residuary criminal law of the island . |
| 20 | He made a living by journalism , in the 1960s version of Grub Street eventually landing the job of drama critic for Town magazine . |
| 21 | She also notes ways in which installations , referencing and drawing upon the mass media and a range of other cultural sources , tend to bridge the gap between fine art and popular culture , thereby challenging the idea of the single fixed meaning and , indeed , conventional assumptions involved in the ‘ making sense ’ of visual imagery . |
| 22 | While not necessarily accepting the fatalism of this argument , it would be wrong to assume that the balance of power between the sexes can be changed simply by persuading more girls to take ‘ boys ’ subjects ' : the issue is clearly too complex to justify simplistic remedies . |
| 23 | Embarrassing as those moments were for me , I would not wish to imply that I in any way blame Mr Farraday , who is in no sense an unkind person ; he was , I am sure , merely enjoying the sort of bantering which in the United States , no doubt , is a sign of a good , friendly understanding between employer and employee , indulged in as a kind of affectionate sport . |
| 24 | By 1900 , imports had halved the cost of meat and bread , greatly assisting the diet of the working classes . |
| 25 | In 2 Timothy 2:15 , Paul emphasised the importance of ‘ rightly handling the word of truth ’ . |
| 26 | Not that many came on any sort of regular basis , much preferring the excitement of the streets to the acquisition of learning for which even the teacher herself , who had known far better days , considered they would have little use . |
| 27 | As the species which is most obviously shaping the future of planet Earth , humans need to examine the consequences of many current development strategies and urgently find solutions . |
| 28 | Twoflower was feverishly attaching the cage of subdued lizards to the picture box , which he had mounted on a tripod . |
| 29 | They act as though no sexy young woman has ever trod those cobbled streets before , although the nubile daughter of the drunken town bully ( Peter Vaughan ) walks around in the mini-est of mini-skirts especially catching the eye of the long-haired village idiot ( David Warner ) , who has already molested young girls . |
| 30 | ‘ We were both trapped , you once said , ’ she reminded him helplessly , with some idea of comforting him , or perhaps easing the process of rationalisation and self-forgiveness he was inevitably going to have to endure . |