Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I think erm a a as you 've kindly called me er I think I will try and make this debate a little more lively erm but I 'm not sure about being controversial er because here I was last week , I was making a speech about the significance of er the deregulation of contracting out bill and er I said then that the bill is so important because it is the first major attempt by government to slay the red tape dragon . |
| 2 | It 's a , it 's a flow rate , it 's rate of using up electricity , watts . |
| 3 | Running an airline is an expensive business at the best of times , during a recession it can be a way of using up money really quite quickly , now Virgin 's particular problem was that they began this recession with relatively little in the way of capital and reserves , only about thirty six million in nineteen ninety one . |
| 4 | We are still left with the dilemma that despite all the potential sophistication , the lymphocytes actually in the infection seem to be there using up energy for the sake of using up energy — like cars stuck in a traffic jam with their engines racing . |
| 5 | The Council is very aware of the pressures placed upon voluntary officials in respect of drawing up development plans and budgets , and preparing annual submissions for grant . |
| 6 | In February 1859 the tsar put the conservatively inclined Main Committee into cold storage and created " Editing Commissions " under Rostovtsev for the purpose of drawing up legislation . |
| 7 | Guo 's comments , and other remarks by Chinese officials earlier in the month , were interpreted as reflecting China 's intention of stepping up pressure on Chris Patten , Hong Kong 's Governor-designate , in order to dissuade him from considering any major changes in the colony or attempting to amend clauses in the Basic Law which would determine Hong Kong 's position under Chinese rule from 1997 [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 8 | The tape is said to run in a continuous loop , a method of speeding up access time to data . |
| 9 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 10 | Possible methods of speeding up collection include increasing the numbers of bailiffs in the town and contacting non-payers by telephone . |
| 11 | In order for them to find the blood vessels they must have some way of sniffing out nutrition , or fleeing from the products of metabolism . |
| 12 | There was widespread opposition to the Household Means Test , and Labour representatives occupied positions on the Public Assistance committees , in the hope of nudging up relief provisions . |
| 13 | Your learning must be a technique of building up knowledge in small doses , as articulated parts of a whole . |
| 14 | The National Marriage Guidance Council book Alone Again sees pleasing yourself as an essential part of building up wholeness . |
| 15 | People sometimes think that natural selection is a purely negative force , capable of weeding out freaks and failures , but not capable of building up complexity , beauty and efficiency of design . |
| 16 | WFP makes the statement that the RMI will be ‘ extended and accelerated ’ with the aim of building up coverage to those units by the end of 1991/92 , ie March 1992 . |
| 17 | Pigs and poultry , sensibly managed , can be a rapid means of building up fertility on a run-down holding . |
| 18 | Cézanne 's method of building up form by a series of parallel hatchings or small overlapping brush-strokes is used by Picasso in a severe and logical way ; indeed , in the gouaches of early 1909 this method of work becomes almost a refinement of the earlier , cruder striations . |
| 19 | With appropriate allocation of profits from year to year the company partner could be used as a means of building up partnership capital at the more favourable tax rate . |
| 20 | German technologists have developed a system of filtering out sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen from the flue gases of coal-fired power stations . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's no way of bringing up siege engines to the walls . ’ |
| 22 | But she wants her share of bringing up baby , too . ’ |
| 23 | He sacrificed precious time by taking on the onerous administrative post of tutor , which he held from 1929 to 1942 , and also the pious labour of bringing out volume two of the posthumously published Early Age of Greece ( 1931 ) of Sir William Ridgeway [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | It can dissolve boundaries of age and culture , and is , in effect , a way of bringing back faith . |
| 25 | Of course you are absolutely right to emphasise the crucial importance of bringing down inflation ; the current deep recession will achieve this . |
| 26 | The Finlay Committee which followed up the Shelmerdine report was charged with looking at ways of bringing about internationalization , and how the issue should be raised with the Dominions , the USA , and the USSR . |
| 27 | The other was Vegetius , also a Christian , who likewise regarded war as a means of bringing about peace . |
| 28 | Although Richard claimed that he took this initiative in the hope of bringing about peace so that the crusade could get under way , his father objected strongly , presumably on the grounds that the general position of the Angevins would be weakened if they admitted the principle that their disputes could be settled in their overlord 's court . |
| 29 | Critics of LMS have seen it as a way of bringing about education cuts without blame being ascribed to either local or central government . |
| 30 | The evidence reviewed in this chapter does not however demonstrate even in the earlier agitational aspects of the anti-slave trade campaign that antislavery took up radical methods and challenged the normal modes of bringing about change . |