Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor should the West be excessively high-minded now in condemning a regime which once served its anti-Soviet purposes so well . |
| 2 | In order to test out the connections between the two , try transcribing a conversation you 've overheard on a bus , in a dentist 's waiting-room or round a meal table . |
| 3 | In tackling a problem it is useful to gather as much information as possible and then to decide whether the solution is going to depend on more information or on a new idea . |
| 4 | Moyer 's Buttress is no exception and is probably the finest climb on the crag , tackling a feature which in days of yore would no doubt have been referred to as a bastion . |
| 5 | As regards myself I rarely ever tire or find the day too long though I am constantly walking a circumstance which being considered much to my health being better able to bear fatigue than when last I walked over the hills with you and I found your advice not to take spirits very very judicious . |
| 6 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 7 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 8 | When launching a kick it is essential to be at the correct distance from an opponent . |
| 9 | Chris Patten says he 's launching a discussion we must all be part of . |
| 10 | With one minute for five moves , however , he seemed to wake up , launching a counter-attack which forced a draw . |
| 11 | In the Highlands it might even be a matter of clanship , for in 1776 Lord Kames declared fugitive five women who had been responsible for assembling a mob which had insulted and attacked Patrick Grant , the new presentee at Boleskine , part of the forfeited Lovat estate , ‘ in resentment that they were not to get a gentleman of the name of Fraser to be their minister ’ . |
| 12 | Parents , too , particularly when their freedom to choose and change their children 's school is a central tenet of the organization of post-1980 education , will feel less difficulty in understanding a school which is an effective competitor but which nevertheless co-operates with others for the sake of ensuring a wider curriculum . |
| 13 | But the cook was in fine form and they seemed to be thawing a bit when I left them chattering away in Greek with Denholm sitting among them and not understanding a word they were saying . |
| 14 | He treated the mad redhead as though she were a fellow-spirit , and she responded , until the moment when she finally admitted she was incapable of understanding a word he was saying . |
| 15 | This is an important point to make , and it can again aid in understanding a distortion which has occurred in the notion of ‘ death instincts ’ in psychoanalytic theory . |
| 16 | Each member of the community was given a name by which he or she was addressed in the Little Academy , representing a quality which they either possessed or sought . |
| 17 | Thus if a test is given for diagnosing a difficulty it seems less relevant to decide on a boundary score than to obtain details of the nature of the difficulty . |
| 18 | Since I was becoming a scientist they encouraged me |
| 19 | Each time she made a decision to keep away from birds , she was in fact reinforcing and enlarging the fear in her own mind , so that she changed from being someone who simply did not like birds to becoming a person who would actually consider spending the rest of her life within her own four walls rather than risk encountering a few sparrows in her path . |
| 20 | Yet in the excitement of becoming a parent it is easy to forget that for some the impact can be not so dissimilar from that caused by the discovery of a rival lover . |
| 21 | As one who is fighting against becoming a hacker myself , I was interested in your article ‘ Hacking with the hackers ’ , by Neil Frude ( Forum . |
| 22 | He adds : ‘ Since becoming a dad I 've changed . |
| 23 | On becoming a head I was determined to try to give parents the opportunity to talk freely and frankly about their children and their children 's needs . |
| 24 | Should you succeed in becoming a planner you would be helping to create these parameters . |
| 25 | If you are interested in becoming a Samaritan their office is at 16 Clarendon Street . |
| 26 | ‘ You see , I 've been thinking about becoming a wrestler myself , ’ confesses Philip . |
| 27 | Earning money is becoming a priority I 'm trying to sit on — I could do with one big hit , though ! ’ |
| 28 | 326 , where the debtor ( the liquidator ) was a party to the agreement between the creditors ( the directors of the company ) , Horridge J. held that ‘ by becoming a party he obtained the benefit of the consideration which each of the directors gave to his co-director by waiving his right to his fees . ’ |
| 29 | Before becoming a guitarist he played clarinet and uses advanced technology to approximate the breathy sound of a wind instrument . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , on becoming a bishop you forfeit your right to that particular principle . |