Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover — another fruitful borrowing from physics — Pasteur discovered in 1848 that chemically identical substances could be physically distinct , e.g. rotating or not rotating the plane of polarised light . |
| 2 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 3 | Environmental Services are keeping and still recruiting the best people and the result is still reflected by our peers and the country 's opinion formers . |
| 4 | Stick the balls on knitting needles so that you can hold them easily while you 're painting and then stand the knitting needles in a jar so that the heads can dry safely . |
| 5 | Several minor changes occurring in a short space of time can have a totting-up effect , challenging and even overloading the resources people have at their disposal . |
| 6 | Figure 6.1 shows , diagrammatically , Egan 's process of repeatedly opening and temporarily concluding the discussion through each of the four stages . |
| 7 | Last night , the brave policewoman 's parents and boyfriend sat at her bedside in the Royal Liverpool Hospital hoping , praying but privately fearing the worst . |
| 8 | These figures not only lead to partisan squabbles and gerrymandering but also affect the amount of money that states and local jurisdictions receive from the federal government . |
| 9 | By nature I mean , first , the principle of survival which drives us to continue living and necessarily entails the ingestion of food ; and , second , the principle of growth which transforms us from childhood to maturity and thence to old age . |
| 10 | Sister stressed how important it is to speak to the troubled , to have time for listening and not to evade the issue . |
| 11 | The need for medical supervision may be necessary for those sufferers who repeatedly enforce vomiting and thus disturb the fluid balance of heir bodies . |
| 12 | Propelled forward by the shrieking aunts , who were bringing up the rear , they stumbled in , falling over the pots and pans and bumping into the dangling kettles , dropping their sacks and shouting and generally making the most satisfactory uproar imaginable . |
| 13 | Her food has to be in sandwich or semi-pureed form for easy swallowing and again to reduce the possibility of choking . |
| 14 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 15 | Equalling and occasionally surpassing the excellent journalism we sometimes enjoy in our quality press , this collection loses out in its lack of immediacy . |
| 16 | The Directing Staff are out and about , unobtrusively encouraging , cajoling and even hissing the occasional order until the column moves off . |
| 17 | They should remember that they are suggesting and not giving the actual location . |
| 18 | A temporary period of peace during an otherwise acrimonious debate on a motion of confidence in the government permitted all party leaders to join backbenchers in praising and warmly applauding the two men who dominated Ireland 's political scene throughout the 1980s . |
| 19 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 20 | The second generation of machines will be much more complex than the first , for it will include machines capable of repairing and even reproducing the first generation ! |
| 21 | Resource distribution during early years of the NHS was based on previous funding with additions for specific developments , thus perpetuating and even exacerbating the inherited geographical inequalities . |
| 22 | On the magazine publishing front it is hard to find publishers who are not investigating or actively using the technology . |
| 23 | On the other hand , all three decisions confirm that an employee would be rashly optimistic if he expects to gain compensation from the mere fact the employer is selling or otherwise exploiting the patented invention with a significant measure of success . |
| 24 | Police committees , therefore , are precluded from either directing or even questioning the chief constable on operational matters ( Loveday 1983 ) . |
| 25 | Several meetings were held with Mr Smith who explained how Wilgro would train him in the art of mushroom growing and then market the produce to the supermarkets where top prices are paid for the quality crops small growers can harvest . |
| 26 | Turn to page 10 to find out all you need to know about perming and how to achieve the look you want this winter . |
| 27 | The effect of these three changes brought about by the growth of corporate enterprise was that the market could no longer be viewed as regulating and thereby legitimating the exercise of corporate power . |
| 28 | His inventory provides further technical details of the art of glassmaking and also reveals the extent of his coal-mining interests . |
| 29 | The verbs seem and appear deliberately withhold applicability ( thus permitting but not demanding the inference that it is inappropriate ) , as does the verb act where it can be taken that the property does not apply . |
| 30 | The headings of this document describe the areas where the BDA is active either through its own efforts or by sponsoring , partially funding or otherwise assisting the work of other bodies . |