Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the ancestor 's body is a dot , like a bacterium in the primeval slime , hidden inside it is the potential for branching in exactly the pattern of the central tree of Figure 3 : it is just that its Gene 9 tells it to branch zero times ! |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't you think , ’ he said , ‘ you 're reacting in just the way she wants ? ’ |
| 3 | I have now four inches of tightly packed paper — keeping mostly only the replies , to save space , as the ‘ dole office ’ nowadays frequently ask people to take in evidence of job search . |
| 4 | By appearing in only the Sunday episode of Not So Much a Programme , Crawford had been able to continue with other work , which included a run of The Striplings on stage at the New Arts Theatre Club , in London . |
| 5 | ? ) On a more serious note , my thanks are due to Dr. Peach , the Tutor for Graduates , for being available and interested without being intrusive , and to the Principal for understanding so well the fears and uncertainties of being new on the job . |
| 6 | Because this is a test of observation and not of memory , make sure you look at each item in relation to the others , noticing not simply the objects themselves but the pattern they form on the tray . |
| 7 | It , it was a quite loony lot , but it highlighted to me that , when I speak on radio , I 'm representing not only the Council , the institute and the profession and all that , I never actually am representing me , and that 's the , that 's |
| 8 | Keeping away fro the area of technicalities on migration . |
| 9 | What will be more difficult to sustain is the expectation that labour should show total dedication to work now that lifetime employment is becoming ever more the exception . |
| 10 | This may simply be a matter of explaining once again the implications of the diseases in terms of any personal relationships , giving advice about contraceptive clinics , or just lending a sympathetic ear while the patient unburdens his or her problems . |
| 11 | Our priority has been the improvement of BP 's performance by setting clearer business targets , aligning more closely the reward and recognition of individuals ’ and teams ’ contributions with performance , and encouraging greater teamwork . |
| 12 | The implications of what we are presented with are left more dramatically open , challenging more directly the containment implied by the morality tradition . |
| 13 | Clearly , to contextualise ideological responses historically is not to neutralise the ideological responses themselves , but it is to take a significant step towards understanding more fully the issues involved . |
| 14 | What the audience sees in Jonathan Miller 's production and Stefanos Lazaridis 's designs , is not the Great California Forest of Puccini 's imagination ; instead , mining-trucks and rail- tracks lead the eye up a steep rake to slag-heaps and a slate-grey sky , driving home forcefully the misery of the miner 's existence ( like Miller , Maazel has great respect for Puccini 's treatment of the individual in the mob-situation ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't worry , my dear , ’ Fagin said , putting down the knife and becoming once again the kind old gentleman . |
| 16 | Fill in using a lipbrush , blending carefully so the pencil-line does n't show . |
| 17 | By the autumn of 1968 , revolutionary politics were becoming as much the stuff of Oxford parties as the riffs of Jimi Hendrix . |
| 18 | It is revealing how generously the artists to whom the college wrote responded to the invitation . |
| 19 | This team research project will provide an analysis of the policy process in six EC member states ( three in each of Southern and Northern Europe ) and also in the EC institutions for understanding how exactly the creation of the SEM will affect and be affected by environmental policy considerations . |
| 20 | He paused , trying to decide how to go on , noticing how dirty the walls of the small , dark office looked against Catherine Crane 's neat , pale suit and bright blond hair . |
| 21 | Their acceptance of financial dependency and political negotiation led to constant adaptation and concession-making , delaying yet further the achievement of equality by an active homosexual movement . |
| 22 | In the later stages of cooling however both the inside and the outside behave elastically and thus their contractions get out of step . |
| 23 | Greg was panicked into opening too baldly the subject closest to his heart . |
| 24 | This ‘ First Band of the Lords of the Congregation of Christ ’ was followed up by four other such bonds between then and 1562 , charting not only the growth of the Protestant movement but also the increasing resistance to the regent and the French , which by late 1559 would reach heights undreamed of at the end of 1557 . |
| 25 | In this light , Idealism embodies only a particular notion of morality , reflecting not even the interests of particular nations , but more specifically the interests of a particular class within the states concerned . |
| 26 | Status is a complex business , reflecting not only the content of the course , but the institution that provides it , the kinds of student it attracts , and their subsequent careers . |
| 27 | You would be wasting not only the therapist 's time but your own money too . |
| 28 | The traditional formula for British economic life has been to have the production industries producing not only the articles for sale but also the wealth of the nation . |
| 29 | Now the bank is demanding not only the cash but £230 interest on it as well . |
| 30 | So I think erm Hertfordshire 's voice should be heard and however , my resolution asks us to look at the possibility of opposing not only the building of terminal five but all further airport expansion in the South East be it at Heathrow , Stansted , Gatwick or Luton . |