Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environment was ‘ very worried indeed ’ about Cumbria 's difficulties in tackling a problem of planning and land use . |
| 2 | Researchers believe the vaccine is a major breakthrough in tackling a form of pneumonia , meningitis and septaecemia , caused by the microorganism streptococcus pneumoniae . |
| 3 | She was twisting a hank of hair between the fingers of her hands , her stained and torn crimson skirts hoiked up over her knees . |
| 4 | ‘ My mummy 's in hospital , ’ she whispered , twisting a lock of hair around her finger . |
| 5 | And ten to twelve we got out the door , oh I was just glad to get out , you know walking a bit of peace and quiet just , I could of strangled him , little git |
| 6 | walking a household of furniture quarter of a mile up the road ? |
| 7 | Church 's is launching a range of leather goods , including luggage , briefcases , belts and handbags , as well as a selection of ties , scarves and socks made from silk , wool , cashmere and mohair . |
| 8 | Mr Berry already had ambitions to expand Blue Arrow 's personnel services on a global basis and in 1987 he discussed with County the possibility of his company 's launching a takeover of Manpower , a US-listed agency . |
| 9 | British-born Rachel , who now lives in LA , has decorated her California home in English country style ( but more cottage than grand manor ) , at the same time as launching a number of furniture stores which reflect her personal taste . |
| 10 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 11 | With this , Smith abandons his nascent journalistic career and scuttles from the room , clothing a sack of fag packs and scrappy scrawl notes . |
| 12 | Their techniques are not unlike ‘ thick description ’ in some respects : setting out accounts for a closely defined topic in an exhaustive manner and assembling a wealth of documentary and statistical evidence to assess an event . |
| 13 | Maria remained motionless , finally beginning to piece the fragments of confession together , assembling a picture of frustration she hardly dared believe she understood . |
| 14 | The first stage is to gather as large a sample of coins as possible by assembling a collection of plaster casts or photographs of specimens in the world 's principal museums , together with other specimens which may have been illustrated in numerous auction catalogues or hoard publications . |
| 15 | Tom Rigg , the warden at Loch Ossian youth hostel , can conjure three stags out of Rannoch Moor by banging a bucket of food at the door . |
| 16 | Indeed , to see them as representing a kind of problem to which some solution might be found is to misunderstand their nature . |
| 17 | More specifically , they arc focused on the home , with self-provisioning ( DIY , gardening and so forth ) representing a sphere of autonomy where they can literally ‘ be themselves ’ . |
| 18 | The focus of the research was to be a number of experimental areas representing a variety of town sizes , locations and physical characteristics . |
| 19 | While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny . |
| 20 | We can view the space of possibilities at the lexical access level as a horizontal slice through the search space , representing a graph of word hypotheses . |
| 21 | She tried unsuccessfully to hide what she described as ‘ preposterous fear ’ , and I understood that her fear had no focus and no logic , but was becoming a state of mind . |
| 22 | We 're becoming a kind of hen-party . |
| 23 | Evidently it did not occur to him that it could also have been a case of the mastery of English becoming a kind of weapon in the mouths of the dispossessed . |
| 24 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 25 | Mr Amir Kaisary , consultant urologist at London 's Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust , which is becoming a centre of excellence for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate disease , says : ‘ To screen nationally or not to screen is very much open to debate . |
| 26 | An example of one of the more successful RMCs is the Anglian which in its first four years set about becoming a centre of excellence . |
| 27 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 28 | It was sheer desperation that led to Nancy Roberts becoming a member of Militant . |
| 29 | It is also a pleasure for a nation of country lovers to escape from what is in danger of becoming a land of theme parks and golf courses , to a place in which the earth is actually used for growing things and where the workers have n't been reduced to the statutory rustic who sits in the corner of the saloon bar entertaining the merchant bankers . |
| 30 | Young found that the harder the police tried to stamp out drug use the more it grew , becoming a symbol of defiance for hippies . |