Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , there is a need to use some automated technique for rigorously incorporating new knowledge into the existing knowledge base . |
| 2 | There is a material difference between merely exempting certain conduct from criminal penalties and making it lawful in the full sense . |
| 3 | On motion four O three the C E C supports , obviously supports awards for long serving Labour Party members . |
| 4 | The good thing about only having one option is it cuts out a lot of rubbish you do n't have to think . |
| 5 | The argument for seasonally adjusting monthly unemployment figures is that only then can the observer tell whether a given monthly increase in unemployment is the normal variation for that time of year or an unusual rise which policy-makers should be concerned about . |
| 6 | those contacts exist erm I ant anticipate publicity in communicating with local schools and other institutions and things like that and there after merely maintaining some kind of a a a regular advertisement slot in the local paper that says , Yes I 'm still here , because people forget . |
| 7 | After only seeing infrequent use at Buckfastleigh steam galas and one trial run to Totnes during 1981/82 , the group agreed to transfer the engine to the Torbay line in 1983 . |
| 8 | The six relics go in , and , after carefully expelling all air , I fasten the neck with string and push it into the white saddlebag . |
| 9 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 10 | Sixty-three-year-old charge nurse Graham Pink was sacked after allegedly breaching patient confidentiality during his one-man campaign about conditions at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport . |
| 11 | A COMPUTER hacker is to be charged with spying after allegedly testing American Defence Department security . |
| 12 | The comedian Ronnie Barker has spent two hours being questioned by police after accidentally buying stolen property . |
| 13 | Paragraph one talks about generally preventing inappropriate development . |
| 14 | Such movement was especially great in the 1960s and 1970s because this was a time of rapid change in industrial technology , calling for new investments , and capitalists preferred to make ‘ drastic adjustments , such as massively replacing living labor by machines and/or disciplining their labor forces ’ ( p. 129 ) in areas of low-intensity class struggle . |
| 15 | WIMBLEDON 'S extravagant celebrations suggested Vinnie Jones had won an Oscar for best supporting tough guy in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ . |
| 16 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 17 | For easy going daily life , the dear and valuable memorandum |
| 18 | He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions , caused the extinction of 500 species of animals , ransacked the planet for fuels and now stands like a brutish infant , gloating over this meteoric rise to ascendancy , on the brink of a war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system . |
| 19 | It 's the er the only way we can see of effectively enforcing that part of the law . |
| 20 | THE government 's programme of forcibly repatriating Vietnamese boat people will proceed despite the international outcry provoked by the first removal operation on Monday night . |
| 21 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 22 | Designers of computer based support for thinking beyond the level of merely providing additional information will hopefully begin to simultaneously use and develop these ideas . |
| 23 | This means that the problem of whether they can be used to make distinctions of meaning is a real one and must be addressed , instead of merely alleging geographical distribution as the explanation for infinitival usage with this verb . |
| 24 | Medical schools fail their students if they fail to nurture their minds and instead take the easier option of merely imparting factual information . |
| 25 | It is clear that quantitative methodology can be applied , with interesting results , to data bases other than the bodies of naturally occurring spontaneous speech for which it was originally designed . |
| 26 | The result is an assertion of the permanence of the human features in a world of constantly changing visual experience . |
| 27 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 28 | A downcast Souness was left to reflect on the opportunities lostsaid : ‘ I was feeling disappointed during the game at the prospect of only getting one point . |
| 29 | Like , I suppose that way if I was hit I might stand a chance of only losing one arm or one leg . |
| 30 | Arens accused Fatah of brutally killing three IDF soldiers in a military camp in northern Israel . |