Example sentences of "is [vb pp] with [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many believe that Mr Kinnock 's heart may have been cut out and stamped on but that it beats anew in Mr Brown , and for this reason alone the party leader is credited with wanting the 41-year old Scot to succeed him in the event of disaster . |
| 2 | And it is a Scot who is credited with using the first ‘ cady ’ on the golf course , namely the Marquis of Montrose , who played on that delightful east-coast course in the 1620s and wrote in his accounts , ‘ payment of four shillings to the boy who carried my clubs ’ . |
| 3 | The standard bearers of this non-existent sexuality were ageing musos such as Chris Barber ( whose ‘ Petit Fleur ’ from April '59 is credited with instigating the ‘ trad ’ boom ) and Acker Bilk , playing inconsequential variants on ditties like ‘ The Saints Go Marching In ’ that had had their day in turn of the century Lousians . |
| 4 | Chen is credited with coining the term ‘ people 's commune ’ , the now discredited model of huge collective farms that , according to Mao , would catapult China into a state of pure communism almost overnight . |
| 5 | ‘ I shall wring Terence Blacker 's neck [ he is credited with coining the term ] . |
| 6 | Auguste Comte ( 1798–1857 ) , who is credited with inventing the term sociology and regarded as one of the founders of the discipline , maintained that the application of the methods and assumptions of the natural sciences would produce a ‘ positive science of society ’ . |
| 7 | The " Widow Clicquot " is credited with inventing the " Pupitre " a slanting rack used in the making of champagne to settle the sediment in the neck of the bottle after fermentation . |
| 8 | Its other main claim to fame is that it is credited with inventing the word tweed to describe the famous cloth first made in the area . |
| 9 | Officially director of campaigns and communication alias media guru , image-maker or spin doctor he is credited with transforming the Party 's fading image between the vital years of 1985–90 . |
| 10 | Richard Schonberger , a Midwestern engineer by training , is credited with introducing the Japanese just-in-time system to US manufacturing . |
| 11 | They were devised in conjunction ( the exact degree of which remains unknown ) with Christian Huygens of Zulichem , who is credited with making the very first pendulum clock in 1656 . |
| 12 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 13 | Which home secretary is credited with founding the modern police force ? |
| 14 | As Comptroller General he is charged with authorizing the amounts paid out to spending departments by the Paymaster General , in accordance with the votes specified in the Appropriation Act . |
| 15 | Damjanovic 's wife , who was in the same car , is charged with harbouring the two and possession of stolen goods . |
| 16 | Last week , Andrew Hugh Smith , chairman of the Exchange , announced the appointment of Sir Geoffrey Littler as head of the Clearing House Formation Committee , which is charged with developing the proposals for the new settlement system . |
| 17 | The central problem with the set-up , however , is that no single body is charged with calculating the opportunity costs of environmental bossiness . |
| 18 | The governing body is charged with managing the school within its delegated budget . |
| 19 | Intriguingly , Alsys , part of Thomson-CSF since October last year , is charged with providing the Ada development environment as part of Thomson 's drive into the global software engineering market . |
| 20 | Kevin James Mason , of Swan Street , Evenwood , Bishop Auckland , is charged with stealing the certificates between January 1 and February 13 this year from the pensioner who lives alone in Ferryhill Station . |
| 21 | Stephen Douras , 30 , of Salerno Drive , Huyton , is charged with murdering the 25 year-old musician , from Adswood Road , Huyton , on May 15 . |
| 22 | One is charged with upholding the moral order , while the other equally essential class helps to explain inappropriate affliction . |
| 23 | Shell is charged with polluting the River Mersey by allowing crude oil to enter the river at Bromborough , Wirral , on 19 August — contrary to the Control of Pollution Act of 1974 — from a fractured pipeline from Birkenhead 's Tranmere Oil Terminal to Shell 's Stanlow refinery at Ellesmere Port . |
| 24 | Graham Feakins , from Gloucester , is charged with polluting the River Lyd in the Forest of Dean last year . |
| 25 | The situation was further confused because the rebels were led by Major Giroldi , whose battalion is charged with guarding the barracks and who presumably should have known whether the general was inside . |
| 26 | Dennis Passingham , of Handley Green , Laindon , near Basildon , is charged with burgling the S B Totham jewellery store in Pier Avenue , Clacton , on Tuesday . |
| 27 | He is charged with leading the team and with day to day liaison with the Lexicographer Group . |
| 28 | On the one hand , studies in which parents were trained to stay right out of brotherly and sisterly quarrels seem to indicate that the frequency of such arguments can be reduced — particularly if ignoring quarrels is combined with rewarding the children for desisting from conflict . |
| 29 | Learning the turtle reaction is combined with teaching the child problem-solving skills , during which recent problem situations are discussed . |
| 30 | If sales and profits are ignored , the manufacturer is faced with combining the three objectives into one . |