Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , combined with external concept/keyword access — through either maps or the Housing Unit datafile — will help pupils identify the true relationships between topics , which may not be so clear using a program such as EDFAX . |
| 2 | Much of the problem can be overcome by designing networks that meet people 's walking needs , thereby encouraging a level of activity that ‘ deters antisocial behaviour and offers the reassurance of help at hand if hassled ’ . |
| 3 | I apply my paint with a palette knife , rarely using a crush , and I work in small areas using masking tape to create the hard edges . |
| 4 | The process of drawing inferences from non-experimental data is usually one of slowly elaborating a relationship between two variables , testing that it contains no spurious component due to the operation of a prior variable , and testing to see if one can pin down whether the cause influences the effect directly or through an intervening variable . |
| 5 | Unconjugated bile acids have high pKs , and will thus tend to combine with H + in the bile canaliculus , thereby generating a HCO 3 - ion . |
| 6 | Will the right hon. Gentleman now , even at this late stage , intervene to try to stop the closure , bearing in mind the Government 's responsibility for privatising the steel industry , thereby allowing a butcher such as Bob Scholey to betray the Scottish steel workers ? |
| 7 | The opportunities for successfully re-using a structure to which it is necessary to make major modifications in order to suit it to its new task are small , even with ironwork of exceptionally good quality . |
| 8 | On such trials , subjects respond more quickly if the prime and target are related than unrelated , presumably reflecting a spread of semantic activation within the cognitive system . |
| 9 | A CONVICTED mass murderer has , for the second time , bloodied the nose , metaphorically speaking , of Malcolm Rifkind , the Secretary of State for Scotland , by successfully pursuing a claim for damages . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON sailor Julie Carroll , 20 , is looking forward to a life on the ocean waves on the type 42 Destroyer HMS Southampton after successfully completing a radar operator course at Portsmouth . |
| 11 | The value to the holder , apart from the intrinsic expertise developed , is only rewarded in some local education authorities where an extra scale point may be offered to an otherwise fully qualified teacher on successfully completing a Diploma course . |
| 12 | A sense of achievement — successfully completing a task or overcoming a challenge . |
| 13 | Rarely completing a painting on the spot , preferring to take sketches back to ‘ the studio ’ missing and ‘ think ’ the picture through , often combining various elements from more than one sketch to form a completed picture . |
| 14 | Today , he likes to act the playful old pro , occasionally engaging in slightly self-conscious silent comedy to amuse the crowd ( generally an old man 's limp ) ; rarely completing a spell without a quip to the umpire ; finding as much enjoyment in the game as at any time in his career . |
| 15 | This last factor is crucial since if a rock is not saturated ice formation will simply cause the expulsion of water into air-filled cavities , thereby inhibiting a build-up of pressure . |
| 16 | A really wide definition , aimed at including all gifts proceeding from benevolent motives , would certainly resolve most of the questions which arise today , but , besides perpetuating a number of imprudent gifts , might well lead later to a multiplicity of special definitions of charity for the purpose of particular statutes ; the Treasury , for example , would probably find that too much income tax was being avoided and introduce a special definition for tax purposes . |
| 17 | Rose Hilaire had sat stiffly upright , feet together , hands in her lap , refusing a cigarette — ‘ I do n't smoke — ’ although eventually accepting a cup of tea , during the drinking of which her hand was observed to shake . |
| 18 | All utterances that were more than 10 words in length were broken down into clauses of less than 10 words thereby producing a total of 115 utterances with an average of 7.07 words and 26.56 phonemes per utterance . |
| 19 | In their study of Yorkshire during the 1984–5 strike , for example , Winterton and Winterton ( 1989 : see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) found that the strike breakers were more likely to live outside the mining communities , thereby producing a geography whereby the strike was strongest ( and longest ) in the pits whose labour came mainly from local , closed communities : in Nottinghamshire , of course , the opposite occurred , with the closed communities being solid against the strike . |
| 20 | Murdoch had turned his hat on a lathe , thereby inventing a method of turning oval objects . |
| 21 | They are mostly using a mixture of APL and assessment on demand to gain the award . |
| 22 | He has made an impressive start though to DIY , successfully wallpapering a cupboard — inclusive of feature border ! |
| 23 | Irina , turning on the hot water and vigorously mopping a plate , said , ‘ Do n't worry . |
| 24 | Dundee himself was fatally wounded while leading the final victorious charge , thereby becoming a legend , one of 600 casualties among the Jacobites . |
| 25 | I am slowly becoming a travelling salesman called Pete . |
| 26 | The Israeli Cabinet again endorses Shamir 's " peace plan " , thereby resolving a government crisis provoked by hardline opponents . |
| 27 | At the age of eleven he went to London to work , eventually becoming a butcher employed by Thomas Pickworth , a staunch Calvinist . |
| 28 | There , consoled for the severity of the regime by the kindness of the superintendent Miss Temple , and a fellow orphan , Helen Burns she dies in Jane 's arms of , who dies in Jane 's arms of consumption she spends her miserable years , eventually becoming a teacher . |
| 29 | The ‘ wicked step-mother , who was very beautiful ’ apparently expiated her crime by eventually becoming a nun at Wherwell . |
| 30 | On June 7 Olszewski met with a group of 14 parliamentarians mostly representing a faction of the PC and joined by Wlodarczyk and Roman Bartoszcze , leader of the Polish Peasant Christian Forum . |