Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So in that last week the Irish lost two games , conceding 117 points , offering up 21 tries and rather wrecking the statistical side of the tour . |
| 32 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 33 | Once again , Medeva stepped in , and bought the business ( for £20m ) , thereby becoming the only commercial manufacturer of vaccines in the UK . |
| 34 | On Jan. 25 , 1990 , Bhutto gave birth to a daughter ( thereby becoming the first head of government to give birth while in office ) ; the withdrawal of the Prime Minister from public life during the latter months of her pregnancy increased the aura of indecisiveness surrounding the government , particularly as the Cabinet had offered its resignation in mid-November ( see p. 37043 ) . |
| 35 | Harue Kitamura was elected mayor of Ashiya , in the southern prefecture of Hyogo , thereby becoming the first Japanese woman to hold such a post . |
| 36 | Doi , 62 , had been elected leader of the SDPJ ( then named the Japan Socialist Party — see below ) in 1986 , thereby becoming the first woman in Japan to head a major political party . |
| 37 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 38 | In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space . |
| 39 | ‘ For two years I lived with a girl named Susan , who I wrote ‘ Medicine Bottle ’ ( 'Down Colorful Hill ’ 's harrowing stand-out ) about , ’ he says , circuitously explaining the next album . |
| 40 | He reached for her and his hands cruelly threaded her hair , slowly winding the bright strands around his fingers . |
| 41 | The talks , which had begun in September 1990 with the objects of easing political and military tension on the Korean peninsula and of promoting greater links between the two states , had involved three meetings between delegations led by the premiers of the two countries , thereby representing the highest level of contact ever achieved by the two countries . |
| 42 | While most environmental health officers are keenly applying the new regulations , the shortage of staff coupled with the wide range of new products and processes which have to be assessed has resulted in a somewhat irregular interpretation and application of the Act . |
| 43 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 44 | The transport system improved rapidly , and this was a source of pride to the whole country , besides enabling the different regions to exchange materials and goods . |
| 45 | It would maximise civilian tactics of resistance and defuse the natural potential for violence , containing and eventually eliminating the marginal but intrusive phenomenon of collaborator activation by Israeli security authorities and collaborator execution by local Palestinians . |
| 46 | In the model the Arctic ozone hole appeared as a direct result of the changes in circulation induced by both doubling the amount of CO 2 and properly representing the radiative feedbacks of the evolving ozone distribution . |
| 47 | He said that the new system would give each working person in the colony a vote , thereby ending the privileged status of current constituency members . |
| 48 | Accordingly , it is agreed that the smaller company will make a share exchange offer for the larger company , which , hopefully , will result in 90 per cent acceptances from the larger company 's shareholders and the implementation of the compulsory sale procedures , thereby enabling the smaller company to obtain 100 per cent control . |
| 49 | If on the other hand , the stress is maintained , strain relief is sought by converting the excess free energy into heat , thereby stimulating the thermal motion of the segments back to their original positions . |
| 50 | In contrast , other writers abandon all pretence of detached objectivity and deliberately flaunt their presence , thereby foregrounding the subjective nature of their narrative . |
| 51 | The hon. Member for Angus , East ( Mr. Welsh ) is merely parading the great terror in front of the farmers for his own purposes . |
| 52 | There is nothing more ‘ automatic ’ than the perfect housewife , mechanically pursuing the same routine day in and day out . |
| 53 | the paws ; simulating the stitching and seams , merely suggesting the heavy black braid that defines the nose of the original bear . |
| 54 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 55 | Operating with relatively little capital , aided by credit , with a small mark-up in prices but with rapid turnover of capital , these petty commercial middlemen penetrated deep into the village , constantly drawing the rural area into the orbit of cash turnover , increasing the role of the market in the economy of the village , and augmenting the volume of goods available both for domestic and foreign commerce . |
| 56 | Hot rumpy on the beach , with Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster inadvertently heralding the libidinous fury of the rock 'n' roll revolution that lay around the corner . |
| 57 | " with the view to promoting the co-operation of the two schools and the possibility of avoiding the teaching subjects in the two schools having a tendency to overlap and so bringing the two schools more fully in accord with the requirements of the town . " |
| 58 | I rarely used them when I was a legitimate student much preferring the local pubs . |
| 59 | However elaborate the equipment , it is merely magnifying the natural psychic ability ( or lack of it ) that the individual might have . |
| 60 | But , says Pflug , the move away from mainframes in favour of distributed computing environments is forcing change — business professionals are making more and more final information technology decisions , while computing personnel are merely shaping the technical side of the project . |