Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liability is anticipated except where the seller is not in fact selling in the course of a business and prior to contracting the transferee knows this fact , or reasonable steps have been taken to bring it to his notice . |
| 2 | Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy . |
| 3 | What could be causing the Tank to act this way ? |
| 4 | During that term , the deputy head was pushing the committee to expand this work in the direction of his vision of study skills across the curriculum and for the whole age range . |
| 5 | By defusing the atmosphere surrounding this event you will lessen the likelihood of the problem arising in the future . |
| 6 | A segment of the LSA-1 gene containing the DNA encoding this epitope was amplified by polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) and sequenced directly . |
| 7 | A segment of the CSP gene containing the DNA encoding this epitope was amplified by PCR and the allelic variants detected by specific oligonucleotide probes . |
| 8 | ‘ Only the other day I was at the vicarage , seeing Mrs Ainger about my stall at the bazaar-I 'm doing the fancy work this year , you know — and there was pussy , bold as brass , if you please , walking into the lounge as if she owned it . ’ |
| 9 | Some designs allow the fuel feed tube to pass through the burner flame before reaching the jet to reduce this risk . |
| 10 | Auto-exposure controls work by taking an average reading of the brightness of the subject and setting the exposure to suit this average . |