Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice could see Legion 's body splitting into a firework display of multi-coloured fronds , and slowly drawing together into a hairy black ovoid supported by three pipe-cleaner legs . |
| 2 | This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future . |
| 3 | Our friend from the smoke , vigorously lashing away like a cab driver whipping a lazy horse , caught three . |
| 4 | CAFOD , on behalf of the church in this country , are asking people to write to their MP to stress that this country should not be cutting aid , but rather seeing how we can increase it . |
| 5 | With this foothold , and after further controversial sackings , he took control , eventually bringing in John Freeman , the eminently respectable journalist and ex-Ambassador to the USA , as chairman . |
| 6 | Such statements are in fact usually false , either because the combination of a and b is not a necessary condition of p , so that even if X had not done b , p might still have occurred , or because , even if X had n't done b , some other agent would have done it instead , thereby bringing about p . |
| 7 | For this purpose the Defence Operational Analysis Establishment was formed , thereby bringing together specialist staff from the three service departments . |
| 8 | In Britain , gene transplants like Carly 's have been limited by the ethics committee to operations which produce changes that will not be passed on to future generations — effectively allowing only treatments little different in ethical terms from ordinary organ transplants . |
| 9 | Slowly struggling up from the depths of deep unconsciousness , Laura flicked open her eyelids , only to shut them firmly again as she winced at the brilliant sunshine flooding in through the windows of the bedroom . |
| 10 | Now empty , decay and neglect are slowly eating away at the building 's fabric . |
| 11 | Consider the immense energies slowly eating out their heart up there , ’ — he nodded upwards at the sun , dazzling westwards across the lake — ‘ and the Pentecostal flame which brings the gift of tongues . |
| 12 | The civil servant on Plowden 's team in charge of the power station construction programme was F. W. ( ‘ Bomber ’ ) Smith , who had made his name in the War by successfully stepping up aircraft production in Beaverbrook 's celebrated Ministry . |
| 13 | By 1973 , after the last major milking herd had been dispersed , only 70 purebred ( or relatively purebred ) Gloucesters were registered , but the breed society was re-established and , with the help of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , the breed 's numbers are slowly building up again . |
| 14 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 15 | Not rejecting them , not ceasing to love them , but slowly building up a new role and identity which no longer depends upon their presence for its satisfactory functioning . |
| 16 | Having established the undercoat by way of washing and blotting onto damp paper , I now begin to apply very watery paint onto dry paper , slowly building up a series of translucent layers . |
| 17 | The Acrylix brushes helped me to make broad , glazing strokes , slowly building up a depth of colour . |
| 18 | It crept forward , slowly building up speed , and when it was twenty yards behind them the driver pressed the accelerator to the floor . |
| 19 | The project was first brought on stream three years ago , slowly building up to its present day output of 750m generating units . |
| 20 | In the early 19th Century many yards were associated with a particular guild or craft with weavers , fullers , dyers , etc. gathering together for their convenience . |
| 21 | If you want to get in close enough to see the detail of his beautiful body markings , you wo n't be able to include much of his neck which will be mostly sticking out through the top of the frame . |
| 22 | The CPRE is now appealing to local councils to carry out mowing in late summer , after the flowers have blown , rather than early in the season , thereby allowing natural seeding to take place . |
| 23 | The federal , state and local levels of the state apparatus are all externally controlled by business and social elites , but of course the character of that control varies from region to region , thereby allowing very diverse elite interests to be reconciled and integrated . |
| 24 | Viol sprang to his feet , politely drawing back to allow his superior to precede him . |
| 25 | The construction of the Suez Canal — which links the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea , thereby shortening considerably the shipping distance between Europe and the eastern continents — was commenced in 1859 , the same year as Charles Robert Darwin published his ‘ Origins of Species ’ which provoked a great deal of controversy . |
| 26 | He accused ‘ powers which are situated many thousands of kilometres from this region ’ of having ‘ concentrated a naval armada ’ in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean and of ‘ intensively building up armaments , expanding the network of their military bases and pressuring and threatening small countries that do not follow their lead ’ . |
| 27 | Or rather singing about . |
| 28 | Alison Walker lay pale-faced and tearful , one hand instinctively resting over her swollen abdomen as if to protect the child within . |
| 29 | Van Dijk has analysed the language of racism , thereby building up a picture of modern ideology which pays particular attention to the way that elite messages can be transformed into ordinary discourse ( van Dijk , 1985b , 1987 ) . |
| 30 | In other words , it will have to buy up the excess foreign currencies on offer with extra pounds — pounds it has created , thereby building up the foreign currency reserves . |