Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 2 | The closer the number of times we felt cold came to equalling the number of times we felt warm , the more inclined we would be to think of the words ‘ warm ’ and ‘ cold ’ as applying to the sensation only indirectly . |
| 3 | There were eighty-eight photos or illustrations relating to this court case and the aftermath , virtually equalling the number found for all the other rape cases in the year . |
| 4 | Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities . |
| 5 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 6 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 7 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 8 | The futures price tends to fall over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , at which time the basis is zero . |
| 9 | The futures price tends to rise over time towards the spot price , equalling the spot price on the delivery day , so again the basis is zero at delivery . |
| 10 | A massive 1000 t steel rotor with 10 m long arms could be spun so that the tips moved at 1000 m s -1 , equalling the speed of sound in steel . |
| 11 | Unable to stop , she collided heavily with the man ascending the stairs , only his strength and quick reflexes preventing them both from tumbling the rest of the way . |
| 12 | Our wickets started tumbling the moment we went in . |
| 13 | So our grand scheme for utopianizing the world was settled in two scuffles . |
| 14 | We have an awkward , and increasingly tense discussion about the use of such songs — for though I wholeheartedly agree that all the ideas they promote are self-evidently good things , I worry simply whether such songs have any positive effect — and they start bandying the word ‘ cynic ’ . |
| 15 | Over my dead body ! ’ — a tempting proposition — and bandying the phrase , ‘ Police harassment ’ , gleaned from the media , at every opportunity . |
| 16 | Given the most rapid detection possible , the most effective means of transmitting the call to the fire services and their most prompt attendance , it is reasonable to suppose that in the absence of an effective automatic fire extinguishing system or even the benefit of a conventional one , that the fire will have reached a well advanced stage on their arrival . |
| 17 | Transmitting the vision |
| 18 | And a strong pelvic girdle with links was essential for transmitting the support of the fin/legs to a gradually strengthening spine . |
| 19 | They can be of great service in transmitting the Faith , even though they can never replace the personal witness which is essential to the proclamation of the full truth and value of the Christian message . |
| 20 | In the late 1980s , the need for education about the dangers of transmitting the AIDS virus justified a degree of public explicitness which would have been unthinkable in previous decades . |
| 21 | Some progress towards satisfying King 's other requirement ( the form of ‘ transmitting the project ’ through the organization ) will be considered in chapter 7 . |
| 22 | The structure of the animal 's behaviour will be adapted to all these features in ways that in past generations have been most successful in transmitting the gene complexes of individuals into the future . |
| 23 | Legal interest centres on a HIV-infected man charged on several counts for wilfully transmitting the virus to his sex partners . |
| 24 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |
| 25 | Othello asks , seeing that Iago ( is transmitting the signal that he ) has something on his mind . |
| 26 | The process of transmitting the signal from the nerve to the muscle can be described quite simply . |
| 27 | In front of the television cameras which were transmitting the game live , the two hookers , Bègles ' Moscato and Mallaret of Montferrand , tried to strangle each other . |
| 28 | In addition to our aim of forecasting the course of Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ , the second multi-agency enumeration survey also allowed us to investigate whether there had been any changes in the social and drug-using characteristics of known heroin users over the two years of research . |
| 29 | Problems with forecasting the course of the epidemic |
| 30 | Their methods of forecasting the way prices would go proved ad hoc and unconventional , unhampered by hard examination of figures and ratios , such as accountants might undertake . |