Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As an aid to training both the new and upgrade user , Adobe have repeated their inclusion of a video which both demonstrates features and provides a basic tutorial . |
| 32 | Spymaster Stella Rimington will lead a 2,000-strong secret army dedicated to hunting down the terrorists . ’ |
| 33 | We have become accustomed to writing off the engineering industry as one of the casualties in the reshaping of British industry during the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 34 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 35 | We are dedicated to experimentation , to pushing back the frontiers of football as we know them , to boldly go where no self-respecting soccer club has gone before , and no , I do not mean the Whaddon and Mitchley Sunday League . |
| 36 | The process is consequently one more akin to topping up the various activity boxes with water , with flows being initiated from one to another once selected levels have been achieved . |
| 37 | Erm your time was made up , it was then applied to the sheet you know , and , and there was hardly any er personal allocation you know , of , of duty in regard to filling up the timesheets . |
| 38 | This tradition had been reanimated by Sir Philip Sidney in his Astrophil and Stella , but even he , pioneer and inventor though he was , was content to reproduce the standard man-woman relationship while devoting his energies to creating an idiomatic English-speaking voice for Astrophil , and to filling out the persona of the frustrated lover , with all his follies and self-deceptions , hope and disappointment . |
| 39 | He went back to looking out the window , sometimes watching the reflection of the room in it . |
| 40 | Since the acquisition of beautiful paintings and objects became one of the ways to clambering up the slippery social slopes this sort of chatter has become jet-propelled . |
| 41 | And the final year of the company 's three-year commitment to cleaning up the Alaskan coast is about to begin . |
| 42 | We should give thought to cleaning up the environment generally . |
| 43 | When it comes to cleaning up the environment , it is said that ‘ the polluter pays ’ … but who is the polluter ? |
| 44 | As a consequence there are , at present , serious obstacles to analysing directly the functional organization of the human brain . |
| 45 | The waitress made off again , and Dimity applied herself to pouring out the tea . |
| 46 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 47 | There is no doubt that the Baron 's wife , who has transferred her main residence to Spain , was of great influence when it came to deciding where the collection should alight . |
| 48 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 49 | They explain that they have always fended for themselves because of being at work , but when it comes to going home the difficulties begin . |
| 50 | ‘ But I looked forward to going down the mine . |
| 51 | Since seals , dolphins and porpoises can cause severe damage to fishermen 's nets in addition to scaring away the fish , the fishing industry have recently taken to playing underwater recordings of the Killer whale near salmon and pilchard nets to keep away such marauders . |
| 52 | From this he deduced that the boiler was too small and this led him on to wondering why the engine was so inefficient . |
| 53 | ‘ They 'll give us the extra numbers we 'll need , when it comes to roundin' up the rest of these Triad Jesus freaks . |
| 54 | This leads us back to considering not the detective short story but the crime short story , the equivalent of the crime novel we have looked at , one of those stories which has in it no more than , in Stan Ellin 's words , " that streak of something wicked " . |
| 55 | The government should be devoting more time to considering how the wartime counter-inflation policy could be continued in peacetime . |
| 56 | An added incentive to tracking down the railways is that they are invariably in rural France , away from the speeding motorway traffic . |
| 57 | Eccleshall , from a scenic village north-west of the county town , are more accustomed to propping up the league than heading it . |
| 58 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 59 | Should he not turn his attention vigorously to sorting out the common agricultural policy , which is endangering the Uruguay round and remains a serious blot which is totally inconsistent with the sort of policies that are embodied in the new treaty ? |
| 60 | Gysin , who exhibited with the Surrealists at the tender age of 19 , dedicated his life to breaking down the barriers between painting and writing . |