Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [adv] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Dale , further and higher education secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland , of which the ULA is part , declared : ‘ The principal has now seen fit to circulate our members with three publications , impugning my personal conduct and integrity , falsely representing the views of our association and grossly exaggerating the consequences of our action . |
| 2 | Most VHS-C camcorders are twin-speed , the LP setting halving the speed and thus doubling the runtime albeit at the cost of a slight reduction in recording quality . |
| 3 | He maintained the IFA 's statement resulted from its desire to speed up court cases pending against IBM and used the tired old argument about local opposition blocking further investment and thus hurting the local economy : ‘ Irish Base Metals are working with a major oil company and we have to convince them that Ireland and Galway are good places for investment . |
| 4 | I was thus in the interesting position of paying to be patronized , asset-stripping my future and still cutting a despicable figure . |
| 5 | Steven mentioned the constraints that the E M U may impose on the economy , but the biggest single issue is the scandalous position in which this government has placed British workers by opting out of a Social Chapter and thus denying the right and protection at work which are granted , taken for granted as minimum basic conditions in all other member states . |
| 6 | There was also intense debate over nuclear weapons and environmental issues , with the Greens obtaining nearly 6 per cent of the vote and thus entering the Bundestag , the first time since the 1950s that a fourth party had had any electoral success . |
| 7 | I had a split second of panic when I came into the office and saw her sitting quietly behind her desk , studying her image in her hand-mirror and conscientiously patting a stray red-gold hair into place . |
| 8 | So cold and unfeeling ; Eileen could n't have imagined anyone behaving in her own son 's home as if she were a stranger , making small talk and occasionally bestowing a few words on her daughter-in-law . |
| 9 | She managed this better than I did , presumably having had practice and certainly having the advantage of knowing in advance that she stuck out about eighteen inches in front of where she ought to have been . |
| 10 | e ) mock interviews Students benefit enormously from being " interviewed " by people from industry and then having the opportunity to " debrief " , and so learn ways of improving self presentation . |
| 11 | Later in my newspaper career I was privileged to act as front page editor for a short time during which I enjoyed writing the 8-column headline and then arranging the other headlines , photo blocks and single or double columns to present a well-balanced and good looking front page spread . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Graham Armstrong , assistant director of social services responsible for finance and administration and now leading the community care project team , is more worried about the second and third years . |
| 13 | The appeal of the games to particularly young boys may be in the fact that a lot of the games are all about some little guy fighting and eventually conquering a large evil monster . |
| 14 | This may be through its action in scavenging nitrite and thus preventing the formation of nitrite derived mutagens , or alternatively through its less specific anti-oxidant properties . |
| 15 | For instance , some timbers , notably oak , have a certain number of fibres , medullary rays , running radially in the trunk and thus crossing the longitudinal fibres at right angles . |
| 16 | At its eastern end two second-century buildings were identified , that to the south ( Building 2a ) lying at right angles to the frontage and apparently comprising a suite of rooms c. 7.5 by 3.5 m ( 24½ by 11½ ft ) , on Hamstone foundations . |
| 17 | This is where experienced help is worth its weight in gold , since the correct set-up can only be established by flying the model and adjusting the linkages and controls to give correct gyro action and then setting the tail up to suit the particular flyer . |
| 18 | But Lancaster replied by attacking the government for extravagance and oppressively burdening the people , saying that he would come armed to parliament and seek to remedy these matters unless the king granted him a safe-conduct . |
| 19 | In this case the spin itself was quite normal , and after a few turns the pilot initiated the recovery by applying the full opposite rudder and then moving the stick forwards . |
| 20 | ‘ Funeral 's tomorrow , ’ McDunn says , flicking ash and then inspecting the glowing end of his cigarette . |
| 21 | He wants to watch the match ; she wants to discuss their marriage and also entering the fray are one of his old colleagues wimpish Ian , a German female courier Birgitta and travel writer Dan . |
| 22 | Kibah Tick Tock … stabled in the village and proudly wearing the Australian colours . |
| 23 | NME 's SIMON WILLIAMS has sued the compilers of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ROCK 'N' ROLL WRITING for ‘ failing to include any of my work and thereby producing a totally unrepresentative collection ’ . |
| 24 | I feel exhausted all the time from the sheer hard physical work and never getting a proper break . |
| 25 | The custodian of the birds , dozing in the sun and hardly expecting a long-distance message so soon after this morning 's arrival , jerked to his feet and looked up . |
| 26 | This Bill proposes that health benefits be available free to all receiving means-tested benefits — for instance , the disabled working allowance benefit , due to begin in April 1992 , could lead to claimants who take it up moving from income support to that benefit and thus losing the right to free prescriptions . |
| 27 | The gardener bowerbird , for example , constructs the most remarkably complicated , hut-like bower , while the golden bowerbird builds a maypole bower up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) high , gluing the sticks together with fungus and then decorating the whole structure with fruit , flowers and moss . |
| 28 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |
| 29 | Well initially the United States genuinely believed that with a small force , perhaps about a hundred thousand , maybe two hundred thousand troops , but principally using air power , that they could prevent the North Vietnamese from helping the Vietcong in the south and thus continuing the civil war . |
| 30 | By a statesmanlike not an enthusiastic appeal Buxton may have calculated on maximising pressure for policy revision and politically isolating the West Indian interest , believing that they were already on the defensive morally and ideologically . |