Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 2 | Our timber floor is made of attractive boards in good condition , so I 'm wondering if there are any problems with staining them and then finishing them using a clear varnish . |
| 3 | To make a start , drill a number of holes close together then join them using a chisel which can be tapped with a mallet . |
| 4 | You switch between them using a memory — resident utility . |
| 5 | Even having formatted column C to show dates you have to enter them using a date function . |
| 6 | with the thought of them using a saucepan . |
| 7 | ‘ Designing a ring is always a lengthy process which involves me producing a number of drawings until the customer and I get it right between us . |
| 8 | ‘ It would appear there is every chance of them maintaining a relationship in the future . ’ |
| 9 | So all they 're asking really as you 're the landlords , do you have any objection to them building a new er mower store ? |
| 10 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 11 | Of course , we could scatter many billions of spores , thereby reducing the odds , but even so the possibility of even one of them encountering a suitable receiving planet anywhere in the Universe is vanishingly small . |
| 12 | Everyone using a Scanner who could not afford the high prices demanded by commercial Optical Character Recognition packages will be delighted with this . |
| 13 | On the other hand , employers who value the services of key individual employees and are dependent on them accepting a transfer may give them more generous relocation packages . |
| 14 | We have witnessed the massive growth in unemployment , a huge increase in the number of part-time and home workers , many of them accepting a grotesquely low rate of pay . |
| 15 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 16 | More touching was the sad list of names in Sasbach churchyard , each of them representing a large loss in a small community . |
| 17 | Indeed , utilitarianism and Kant 's ethic of duty for duty 's sake are usually seen as the two great extremes of moral theory , the line between them representing a continuum on which most moral philosophies with a positive theory of what is right and wrong can be placed . |
| 18 | If even she has difficulty , the chances of me adopting a child are negligible , I suppose . |
| 19 | An even larger protest was held the following year when 10,000 people gathered , many of them climbing a staircase of straw bales built over the ten-foot high barbed wire fence around the site . |
| 20 | My lad took me blackberryin' a month or two back , up above the quarry , and I seen'em . ’ |
| 21 | There was not a weakness to be seen and no-one at the game would back against them ending a 26-year wait for the Championship . |
| 22 | She was about to find herself a seat when she caught sight of him , in conversation with a rather pretty dark young woman , both of them laughing a lot . |
| 23 | In the first of four topics , Father Harry Stratton , parish priest of St Alban 's , Macclesfield , spoke of the development in the Church 's teaching on baptism , seen as a movement away from the congregation being virtually spectators at the liturgy , to them becoming a parish community worshipping together . |
| 24 | Overthrown Tsar Nicholas II , his wife Alexandra and three of their five children were slaughtered on July 17 , 1918 , to stop them becoming a focal point for opposition to communist leaders Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 25 | Most of the federal judges appointed by President Reagan are so convinced the market has its own fail-safe mechanisms for everything that it is hard to imagine them upholding a challenge to any merger . |
| 26 | Like it will crack you up like when you see everybody else out driving in a car like , look at Terry and all and Debby , see all them driving a car . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't have to worry about me becoming a burden on you , you know . |
| 28 | Someone else pissed over my shoes , and all my Dad thought about was me becoming a doctor . |
| 29 | He could touch — he could caress — Meh'Lindi in this murderous alien guise like someone stroking a kitten , as though he was absolved from the normal punctilios of duty and common sense . |
| 30 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |