Example sentences of "[v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor will then need convincing shows in the USA before the FA would give him another four years , equalling the eight-year reign of Bobby Robson . |
| 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 | He went to the 1928 Olympics , equalling the 100 yards record in the semi-final . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Neale was re-elected captain for the 1991 season last November , already equalling the record for longest serving captain . |
| 6 | To counter both the unfavourable home environment , and the difficulty poorer parents have in equalling the sharp elbows of the middle classes , who are well accustomed to taking themselves to the front of the queue , the school starting age for nursery education should be reduced to three . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Previously , on the basis of very sparse data , estimates of the sidereal axial period ranged from +15 days to +224.701 days , the upper limit equalling the sidereal orbital period . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And his hat-trick for Wales earlier this month against the Faroe Islands puts him on 23 goals for his country — equalling the Welsh record held jointly by Trevor Ford and Ivor Allchurch . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Otherwise it is n-ary , with the value of ‘ n ’ equalling the number of entities . |
| 14 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 15 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 16 | The peaks of Ingleborough and Whernside are prominent southwards , and Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat in the Pennines eastwards , but the gem of the panorama is the serrated skyline of the Lakeland fells overtopping the Howgills and forming an exciting western horizon . |
| 17 | Overtopping the six waiting Titans of the Warlord class stood the solitary Emperor Titan — turtle head protruding , one plasma cannon held rampant . |
| 18 | City : Why Tokyo is tumbling The Japanese stock market has halved in value since 1989 . |
| 19 | Our wickets started tumbling the moment we went in . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In Eastern Distributors v. Goldring the original owner ( the customer ) clearly intended to make the deception . |
| 22 | There was no one much remaining to hear this — only Garvey , Lucie unbridling the horses , and Izzie and Gabriel standing by . |
| 23 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 24 | Some were already sprouting feathers and were busily preening the new growth , some were sleeping off their last feed of fish , while others were food-begging from every bird within reach . |
| 25 | So our grand scheme for utopianizing the world was settled in two scuffles . |
| 26 | Over my dead body ! ’ — a tempting proposition — and bandying the phrase , ‘ Police harassment ’ , gleaned from the media , at every opportunity . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | A SATELLITE channel transmitting the proceedings of the British Parliament and overseas legislatures has been suggested by the Astra satellite company , Marketing Week reports . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The intelligentsia has an enhanced role in creating and transmitting the new national culture through a national educational system . |