Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Where the implications of becoming a carer have been discussed in advance by all involved , so that some agreement has been reached about the amount of help it is possible to give , the outlook is more optimistic ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | In 1978 he had a complete change , by becoming a contracts engineer with the Rolls-Royce Product Support Division , working primarily with customers of Industrial Olympus . |
| 3 | now can we look Mr at the print below the table , costs , questions and answers we find that many people considering purchasing a apartment have similar questions can I ask you this , would you personally ever deal with people who were considering purchasing a apartment ? |
| 4 | With betting banned , the punters were given the chance of a flutter by purchasing a prize draw ticket for each race . |
| 5 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 6 | ‘ The idea of nicking a Stones riff and putting it behind a James Brown backbeat and howling over the top is pretty appealing , but it 's not really what we 're into as a band . |
| 7 | Its motion can be detected — for example , by deflecting a laser beam that bounces off a mirror attached to the needle . |
| 8 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
| 9 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |
| 10 | Five men accused of staging a cock-fight have been cleared of all charges . |
| 11 | With revolving credit , or even fixed-sum credit when there is some form of continuing relationship between lender and borrower , the choice again includes doing without and finding the cash ; but the credit option is now virtually just a matter of signing a sales slip . |
| 12 | She makes painting an oil look so easy that the student will automatically start believing he will be capable of the same . |
| 13 | The workers who are exposed continually to the risk of acquiring an infection include mortuary technicians , pathologists , domestic assistants , porters and nurses . |
| 14 | They could get money by robbing a fruit machine , but it is easier to beat up an old woman and grab her purse . |
| 15 | Thus questions about structure can raise deeper issues of phenomenology , whose contribution has been ‘ to show the ways in which ways of living a life work themselves into complex ways of thinking ’ . |
| 16 | And if you want to know what that is wheezing , clanking and snorting in the background — a sound resembling a veteran totter emerging from a collection of Blue Peter cans — it 's Sir John Junor dressed up in armour and on white charger . |
| 17 | Academics who are planning or revising a curriculum have to address three kinds of questions . |
| 18 | A critical first step in the process of establishing a data resource for research and teaching is the location and acquisition of relevant data . |
| 19 | To the latter end he was also responsible for establishing a savings bank at Workington , and for various friendly societies . |
| 20 | It 's like dad hiring a car come home here and put the keys on the mantel piece |
| 21 | Pushing a broom handle up the tube will allow you to push the plunger up to this moulded shoulder and into the tube . |
| 22 | In the event that no single party enjoys an overall majority in the Commons then the issue of sending for the Prime Minister and refusing a dissolution become matters so charged with political manoeuvring that the Crown would be drawn into politics in a public way that would be bound to invite a keener scrutiny as to what should be her proper role within the British constitution . |
| 23 | Yes it is it 's literally frightening a police contact , erm that simple |
| 24 | Very often a simple committee decision resolving to serve a Repairs Notice , or even resolving to consider serving a Repairs Notice , is enough to prompt the owner to sell . |
| 25 | R 2 denotes RR which is a 180° turn and R 3 denotes RRR , also written R — 1 or R ′ , denoting a 270° turn clockwise or a 90° turn anticlockwise . |
| 26 | Two men were last night helping police investigating a till snatch from a wine shop in North Shields town centre . |
| 27 | GCR clas B7 No. 5478 runs smartly downhill just south of Wortley station , heading a Manchester-Marylebone express in 1930 . |
| 28 | In a more typical case , when attempting a street arrest ‘ a hostile mob raised the cry of ‘ Boot them ’ ’ against the police' ; , in another , police attempting to separate a man and woman who were quarrelling were ‘ set upon by a crowd of 200 persons , who called out ‘ Boot them ’ ’ , and they were assaulted and kicked' . |
| 29 | The one Oxford person celebrating a Cambridge win . |
| 30 | He said a Labour survey of household contents insurance costs at nine of the top British firms showed the average family would be paying a 19pc increase this year alone . |