Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , nuclear power was excluded from the government 's privatization plans and instead a state-owned company , Nuclear Electric , was set up to run the existing nuclear power stations ( eight Magnox , five AGR , and the PWR under construction at Sizewell ) and to continue generating around 20 per cent of electricity in England and Wales ( Scotland has a separate company ) . |
| 2 | Furthermore even in a fused profession , the barristers in chambers in the Inns of Court and elsewhere would undoubtedly enter into partnership as specialist trial advocates and do agency work for other solicitors , whose own staff were unable to act as advocates in every case or where the complexity of the case justified bringing in a specialist advocate . |
| 3 | Consider , for instance , the ability of the male praying mantis to continue copulating whilst the female steadily devours him from the head end downwards , or for the head end of a wasp to continue eating even when severed from the abdomen . |
| 4 | I would n't fancy eating there . |
| 5 | Sometimes they can be heard bellowing far away on the shoreline in very great numbers . |
| 6 | I used to go ratting there sometimes . |
| 7 | True to his belief in the efficacy of competition , he avoided building up an extensive chain of outlets , and preferred to thrive by vigorous marketing . |
| 8 | And she had stopped eating altogether . |
| 9 | In turn , Woodie , Willis , Nenna , Maurice and even his visitors could be heard coughing uncontrollably . |
| 10 | • Z55 tensile quality steel combined with a 47mm deep ribbed profile configuration gives excellent spanning characteristics and minimises ponding even at pitches as low as 1½£° |
| 11 | For many of these theories computational systems have been developed using very small lexicons that have been sanitised of ambiguity and dealing with a conveniently simple set of grammatical constructions . |
| 12 | Repeat using as much of the flesh as possible . |
| 13 | This will set the stitches and make handling easier . |
| 14 | Beyond the door , Mother Bombie 's feet in soft felt slippers could be heard slapping angrily down the stairs . |
| 15 | Y'all keepin' well down there ? — Aye . |
| 16 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 17 | Secondly , a disaggregated study of the effects of unions on wages , redundancies and labour force turnover is being undertaken using both industry and firm level data . |
| 18 | For finance leases entered into after 11 April 1991 , the Inland Revenue 's statement of practice SP3/91 grants lessees tax deductions on the finance charges in the lease ( calculated in accordance with SSAP 21 ) and on the accounting depreciation charge on the asset ( calculated using generally accepted principles ) . |
| 19 | In addition , improved therapeutic agents with more specific and controlled effects on platelet metabolism may be developed allowing more effective intervention . |
| 20 | Causality is Granger causality , which is based on the idea that , if past values of the variable × improve predictions of the current value of variable Y , relative to predictions made using just the past values of Y , while past values of Y can not improve on the predictions of the current value of X made using past values of X , X ‘ causes ’ Y , in the special sense that X leads Y . |
| 21 | Joined using binding off , a welt knitted separately should feel the same in wear as a welt knitted at the same time as the garment piece . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean eating up ! |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he 's here to look after my boat , not to go sniffing around my cousin ! ’ |
| 24 | The Hercules aircraft have now stopped bringing in aid . |
| 25 | In October 1990 a network of Baptist Church planters was officially formed gathering around a hundred ministers and aiming to hold a first residential conference in 1991 . |
| 26 | A way of starting in shallow water that involves stepping on to the board with the rig already in the sailing position . |
| 27 | France has had seventeen constitutions since 1789 and , as the figure suggests , seems rather to enjoy drawing up new ones . |
| 28 | Called the Services Home Savings Scheme , it involves tucking away between £50 and £200 a month into a savings account with one of four organisations . |
| 29 | For a polymer such as polyethylene , the fold in the chain is completed using only 3 or 4 monomer units with bonds in the gauche conformation . |
| 30 | It involves bringing together many sources of information ; relying on narrow , numeric scales to assess certain criteria ( e.g. sales , costs ) can fudge complex interrelationships and lead to poor judgement and bad decisions . |