Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | working for or assisting a competitor . |
| 2 | Many successful businesses have been founded on the single item of information that no one is carrying out a particular service or producing a particular product . |
| 3 | A spreadsheet makes operations like totalling a column of numbers or producing a bar chart a straightforward operation — SuperCalc 5.5 makes them incredibly quick and easy due to the icons in its new Tool Bar . |
| 4 | She will recognize that the client is repeating himself or demanding a particular reaction from her . |
| 5 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 6 | A vote given or poll demanded by proxy or by the duly authorised corporate representative of a recognised body shall be valid notwithstanding the previous determination of the authority of the person voting or demanding a poll unless notice of the determination was received by the Company at the office or at such other place at which the instrument of proxy was duly deposited before the commencement of the meeting or adjourned meeting at which the vote is given or the poll demanded or ( in the case of a poll taken otherwise than on the same day as the meeting or adjourned meeting ) the time appointed for taking the poll . |
| 7 | Fellatio ( kissing , licking or sucking a man 's penis ) is risky if semen or pre-cum ( a light fluid which is secreted before a man ejaculates ) gets into cuts or sores in the mouth . |
| 8 | Fellatio ( ‘ cock sucking ’ , i.e. tonguing or sucking a penis ) . |
| 9 | There is only a small risk of HIV transmission through oral sex ( licking or sucking a man or woman 's genitals or anus ) , although other sexually transmitted diseases , like syphilis and gonorrhoea , are easy to get this way . |
| 10 | It is a common strategy , for example , to think of analysing or decomposing a construct into a number of dimensions or variables . |
| 11 | That damn' word brought me back to the harsh reality of my situation : not just the discovery of a traitor or bringing a murderer to book but vengeance for Agnes and , of course , the Herculean task which the Great Killer had assigned me ! |
| 12 | He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist . |
| 13 | His is not an isolated story — to this day many people report hearing or seeing a strange presence on the slopes of the mountain . |
| 14 | Shildon said that a superior drinks carton had been invented and the MacQuillans faced the choice of buying the invention or seeing a competitor develop it and steal their market . |
| 15 | It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes . |
| 16 | And it is just as horrifying an idea to contemplate being walled into such a Paradise Garden as being condemned to spend eternity playing games with balloons which never burst , receiving presents from Santa without wondering how they were paid for , being organised into teams with leaders chosen arbitrarily from among us , or eating a permanent celestial buffet of ice cream and salmon sandwiches . |
| 17 | However , the idea of one phrase ‘ replying ’ to another , or completing a ‘ sentence ’ , is perfectly valid . |
| 18 | The plaintiff might be an author who is prevented by his injuries from writing or completing a book or there might have been high unemployment in the area and large redundancies in the company that had employed the plaintiff . |
| 19 | ‘ It will also help to develop people 's creativity and ideas in using these skills in the community , whether it 's setting up a business , starting a co-operative or completing a personal project , ’ he said . |
| 20 | You may find yourself writing detailed advertisements for an insurance company specific enough to find favour with their actuaries , or inventing a reason for people to buy a particular chocolate bar . |
| 21 | The maximum penalty for gross indecency committed by a man over 21 with someone aged under 21 would be increased from two to five years , as would be the penalty for the offence of attempting to procure or procuring a man under 21 to commit an act of gross indecency . |
| 22 | Occasionally a charge on a shield of arms , or the interpretation of a crest can be an important clue in the determination of seignorial affiliation , in linking two families with different names , or suggesting a hitherto unsuspected landholding , quite apart from the visual attraction an achievement might have as stained glass , stone carving or hatchment in the local church . |
| 23 | Whether it 's the everyday hurly-burly of catering for your family , or cooking a special meal , there is always a lot of clearing up afterwards . |
| 24 | Be it taking accurate telephone messages , preparing a quotation , or cooking a meal , quality management means it is done properly , all the time . |
| 25 | These activities relate to planning , making decisions about and carrying out events at work or for leisure : for example in shopping , planning a journey or organizing a party . |
| 26 | He saw clips of them with their heads together across a table in a wine bar , or making love in the garden of a cottage they had once rented in the New Forest , or building a sand castle with the twins on their first family holiday together at the seaside . |
| 27 | As Janette Richardson has noted , the transition from the horse 's frolics to the clerks ' night-time escapades is marked by the collocation of the miller 's retying the horse , and making the clerks a bed : To make the point absolutely explicit , when the clerk John has leapt on top of the miller 's wife in bed : — the verb priken , in Middle English , is a standard term for riding or spurring a horse . |
| 28 | or trawling a tin basin |
| 29 | The culmination of abolition in 1806 and 1807 was much less marked by local committee activity and the African Institution did not expend great efforts on recreating or maintaining a national network of local groups . |
| 30 | That leaves the Chancellor and the Cabinet having to find £15bn of spending cuts or higher taxes , or accepting a combination of both . |