Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology may be taken by successfully completing the first year and a literature project . |
| 2 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 3 | On Jan. 25 , 1990 , Bhutto gave birth to a daughter ( thereby becoming the first head of government to give birth while in office ) ; the withdrawal of the Prime Minister from public life during the latter months of her pregnancy increased the aura of indecisiveness surrounding the government , particularly as the Cabinet had offered its resignation in mid-November ( see p. 37043 ) . |
| 4 | Doi , 62 , had been elected leader of the SDPJ ( then named the Japan Socialist Party — see below ) in 1986 , thereby becoming the first woman in Japan to head a major political party . |
| 5 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 6 | ‘ For two years I lived with a girl named Susan , who I wrote ‘ Medicine Bottle ’ ( 'Down Colorful Hill ’ 's harrowing stand-out ) about , ’ he says , circuitously explaining the next album . |
| 7 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 8 | I 'd come so far without looking from side to side , only seeing the next qualification up , that by the time I began to feel closed in it was too late . |
| 9 | I was still gingerly buffing the first sentence |
| 10 | By the time Henley was opened Braid had already won the Open Championship four times and went on to win again in 1910 so becoming the first golfer to win five times . |
| 11 | The eye can not rest on one thing , as in traditional circus , but you are constantly seeking the next thrill . |
| 12 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 13 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 14 | I worked a lot in one which I used to call D4 — basically taking the second string down to A and then sometimes taking the third string down to F sharp — open D. But sometimes keeping the third string tuned to G. I also used to tune to D minor sometimes and take the F sharp down to F , but sometimes keeping the E at the top so you 'd have a ninth . ’ |
| 15 | As shown in Figure 2.13 , these range from trivial ones such as merely copying the first operand to the more useful ones discussed above . |
| 16 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 18 | Once you have the sub-menu dropped down you can select from it using the cursor keys to move the highlight bar or by just typing the first letter of the option 's name . |
| 19 | Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell . |
| 20 | We finally arrived in Calgary on the afternoon of the second day , thus inaugurating the first flight of the western Canada air mail service . |
| 21 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 22 | She served as demonstrator in botany at Bedford College for Women from 1886 to 1890 , when she succeeded Grenville A. J. Cole as head of the geology department , thus becoming the first woman to take over the headship of a geology department in a British university . |
| 23 | At the 1913 Birmingham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science she was elected president of section K ( botany ) , thus becoming the first woman ever to preside over a section . |
| 24 | On March 1 , 1989 , the sale of beer became legal after 74 years , thus ending the last vestiges of prohibition . |
| 25 | She might come away understanding the first part of the company 's title , but not the second . |
| 26 | Donna was already opening the second envelope . |
| 27 | The mountain everlasting ( Antennaria dioica ) with its dainty little furry flowers is known in Gaelic as literally ‘ cat 's paw ’ , while the marsh marigold ( Caltha palustris ) is known as ‘ the yellow plant of Beltane ’ , for it makes its appearance at Beltane , May first , thus marking the second half of the ancient Celtic year . |
| 28 | Wicca followers , like the Canaanites , visualise their gods as images of animals or horned gods , thus breaking the second commandment of the group with whom they seek closer ties ( Exodus 20:4 ) . |
| 29 | Grace Carter , a DCR member , is pictured above wearing the first batch of badges as she chats to Mary Jordan about the idea . |
| 30 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |