Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am very pleased indeed that a quantity of equipment has already been sent by the Cheshire Fire Brigade to the fire department in St Petersburg and that the county fire officer is pursuing the possibility of extending the scheme with technical help . |
| 2 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 3 | The Committee was disappointed at the lack of progress in pursuing the initiative on televising the courts following the defeat in the previous year of the Private Member 's Bill to sponsor a pilot scheme . |
| 4 | Hesitantly at first , and in the face of some opposition , the male union leadership , in consultation with the women , decided to set up a women 's section of the ETS instead of pursuing the strategy of recruiting the remaining women compositors into the Warehousemen and Cutters " Union . |
| 5 | It is difficult to see , for example , how the relation earlier/later can be made clear sense of without allowing the possibility of developing complexes , i.e. complexes which are not complete , but are rather in the " process of completion " . |
| 6 | It is as though these translators were each construing the poem by supplying a vocabulary reflecting a personal perception of the poet 's intention — or perhaps in some cases caught from other translators . |
| 7 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 8 | Every harvest dance begins with the workers circling the field before moving into a straight line and beginning to reap . |
| 9 | He would tour the world quietly preaching the gospel of surfing . |
| 10 | The fundamental issue was that of speeding the Council by giving clear directives to the Theological Commission of the collective mind of the fathers . |
| 11 | Depending the amount of drying concerned actually alters the composition of some salts . |
| 12 | The difficulty will be maintaining the momentum of switching to more expensive alternatives when oil prices are falling in real terms and surveys in 1983 indicated that investment in energy saving might already have peaked . |
| 13 | While many are praising the ruling for providing a chance for some to see such masterpieces as Matisse 's ‘ Grand Riffian ’ and Seurat 's ‘ Les Poseuses ’ without the required pilgrimage to Merion , Pennsylvania , critics of the decision are echoing a warning they have offered since the Barnes attempted to deaccession works last year . |
| 14 | From the top , the views south are awesome , proving the nonsense of ignoring a mountain just because it falls a few feet short of Munro status . |
| 15 | English teachers in each of the six schools were asked to analyse four of the most popular texts using the Checklist for Analysing Children 's Literature . |
| 16 | The inference was obvious , and in a letter to his brother , a distinguished mycologist , Lister proposed to try using the mould for treating patients . |
| 17 | This has been demonstrated by experiments with captive starlings , using the technique of displacing the sun 's image with mirrors . |
| 18 | Another example , using the technique of redefining the problem and using the above situation , may be for the counsellor to suggest that the intention of the father 's behaviour was to place the daughter in an untenable position so as to break up her marriage . |
| 19 | Many employees are using the excuse of falling sales to impose changes to previously agreed conditions , often using the excuse to impose changes to conditions that have been fought for for many years . |
| 20 | Even scrambling might cause a problem , but using the jacket for walking and general leisure is OK . |
| 21 | The Greenwood Trust now manages the woodlands of the Ironbridge Gorge , using the particular of coppicing with standards . |
| 22 | The 50-cent man is restricted to using the knife on the most delicate parts of the hide ( floorman ) or to using the ax in splitting the backbone ( splitter ) ; and wherever a less-skilled man can be slipped in at 18 cents , 18½ cents , 20 cents , 21 cents , 22½ cents , 24 cents , 25 cents , and so on , a place is made for him , and an occupation mapped out . |
| 23 | Agreements with the United Kingdom covering anti-terrorist measures first reported in January [ see p. 38727 ] , including using the sanction of confiscating assets , were signed in London on Sept. 22 . |
| 24 | Knudson 's work cited earlier , using the challenge of producing video playlets as a stimulus to bringing about general improvement in the language work of under-achieving pupils , is a case in point . |
| 25 | They believe that the interpretation is from a later period of the Church and that it arises from using the parable for teaching purposes . |
| 26 | Since the gap between the two campaigns was twenty-two years this can not be described as ‘ volatility ’ in antislavery support but it does indicate a complicated picture of simultaneous large expansion and significant ( though quantitatively less ) erosion , using the yardstick of petitioning . |
| 27 | We 're , we 're , we 're using the application for doing the Stragg meeting now , we 're having amend on normally I think . |
| 28 | He says that they have been using the shaft for dumping substances . |
| 29 | The safest method of destroying it is by using the Ritual of Lightening from Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic for this item , and rules for different ways of destroying the Blackshard ) . |
| 30 | Using the method of comparing population proportions given in Exercise 5 of Chapter 5 and the fact that about one in five twins are identical , check the assertion that the Danish Twin Registry data given in Section 16.1 show evidence of a genetic effect even for ‘ other acute infections ’ . |