Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in those areas where golden eagles fed extensively on carrion sheep which had been dipped in dieldrin , the proportion of pairs successfully rearing young fell from 72 per cent to 29 per cent during the late 1950s . |
| 2 | Eight pairs of sea eagles attempted to breed in Scotland this year , with four pairs successfully rearing a total of five young . |
| 3 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 4 | In about half of all cases hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is familial , the remaining cases presumably arising from sporadic mutation . |
| 5 | Gun battles between rival gangs of inmates had left 18 prisoners dead following an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Olivero Chavez Araujo , a self-styled drug baron serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 6 | Some large securities firms have withdrawn from options market making due to inadequate returns thereby reducing market liquidity further , leading to less competitive quotes and irregular updating of prices . |
| 7 | However , it seems unlikely that in the foreseeable future they will attract sufficient students to make them viable as institutions predominantly offering courses of higher education . |
| 8 | He missed the next fixture at Northampton but re-appeared at Trent Bridge for the Notts game and was called eight times for throwing and seven times fro dragging . |
| 9 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 10 | His arm juts stiffly towards her , fingers furiously quivering . |
| 11 | Finally , there was a frenzy of discounting before Christmas 1991 , with a number of large chains effectively starting their sales before Christmas . |
| 12 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 13 | The best known use of zeolites has been as dehydrating agents — the so called molecular sieves — which can effectively filter out and hold on to water molecules thereby removing them from other liquids . |
| 14 | It is difficult now to realise the scandalised horror with which not only the critics , but the general public in the 1920s and 1930s , greeted the fact that he could have used Victorian magazine illustrations fro producing the series of paintings called Echoes , or make portraits from press or publicity portraits of people such as the Prince of Wales , or public events such as Miss Earhart 's Arrival of 1932 . |
| 15 | If frequent access to embryos is necessary it is advisable to have these in a second incubator designated for short-term cultures thereby ensuring that the long-term cultures remain undisturbed and enjoy greater stability of C02 levels and temperature . |
| 16 | Percentages are based on a total of 46,652 solicitors altogether working in private practice . |
| 17 | Control individuals show weak staining in the apical region of the enterocytes thereby showing an uptake of PT-gliadin . |
| 18 | The board should minute the projections thereby approving them before the Information memorandum is distributed . |
| 19 | A lot of pop music is cheapened by musicians badly trying to explain what their songs mean . ’ |
| 20 | Time stood still in the attic room while they exchanged the most innocent of kisses and embraces , and McAllister faced her future , the bruises slowly disappearing from her wounded spirit under the healing power of true love . |
| 21 | The upward trend in the market as a whole indicates the arrival both of products effectively exploiting the utilities of electronic media and a growing acceptance and appreciation among information users of the value of these utilities . |
| 22 | Only the queen of the social columns , recruited a couple of years previously from Calgary , sat calmly at her desk , her silver-tipped fingers delicately feeling the pulse of the city 's social life . |
| 23 | It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends . |
| 24 | Will there be people of different ages all doing separate things or do you go in for family activities or both ? |
| 25 | Not common or garden holes , not those bodily orifices so absorbing to his contemporaries . |
| 26 | After five minutes patiently waiting I noticed that he had been distracted on his way back by a friend behind the counter . |
| 27 | Some other records between November and February may refer to wintering rather than wandering birds , but otherwise all reports were of birds apparently passing through . |
| 28 | Graham sat in the deserted dining car for some time after regaining consciousness , his trembling fingers gently massaging his temples as he tried to overcome the throbbing in his head . |
| 29 | However , if we also add the timings of such movements from two more manuscripts of Lalande motets , F-Pn , H387 , a reduced score of the Miserere a grand choeur ( illus.4 ) , and F-Pn , Rés. 1363 , a reduced score of Dominus regnavit , both being copies apparently dating from the 1740s and probably prepared for the Concert Spirituel , we begin to notice the familiar syndrome of some slowing down in some tempos , compared with those of the earlier H400D . |
| 30 | Brittle Power is very much a continuation of the Lovins canon : the concerted challenge to most of the percepts apparently underlying current official thinking about energy — this time overturning the most ponderous applecart of all . |