Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish fish merchants and processors also united last night in condemning a campaign by English fishermen to secure a ban on the import of Russian cod . |
| 2 | The Ayatollah was teaching in Qom when he was arrested in 1963 after condemning a raid on the college by the Shah 's security forces . |
| 3 | In Wheeler it was held that while section 71 of the Race Relations Act 1976 allowed the council to consider the best interests of race relations when exercising its discretion in the management of a recreation ground , it could not , in the absence of any infringement of the law or improper conduct penalise a rugby club for failure to support the council 's policy of condemning a tour of South Africa . |
| 4 | Given that , as Tracey and Morrison point out , her stance on sin would also involve condemning a number of heterosexual practices — her position was not simply something that was specifically ‘ anti-homosexual ’ . |
| 5 | Nor should the West be excessively high-minded now in condemning a regime which once served its anti-Soviet purposes so well . |
| 6 | On one interpretation , Galileo was trying to protect his Church from condemning a theory that , by its evident truth , would prove an embarrassment if not embraced . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no question of us condemning a referee here . |
| 8 | It is easy to assume that with so limited a population and tourists numbering a fraction of those who head for the sun , protection of the countryside is straightforward . |
| 9 | When transcribing a passage from piano score in which the two hands are spaced far apart , fill in the gap in your arrangement . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 12 | Sedgefield District Council recreation officer Phil Ball , one of the council 's successes , was last week regaling a committee on the benefits of exercise . |
| 13 | I had once had to witness Otto tackling a bundle in Paris and it left a lasting impression : of an elephant stripping bark . |
| 14 | There is , however , a second sense in which the idea of tackling a problem from both ends , and meeting in the middle , is relevant to the brain . |
| 15 | By having each and every one of them involved , you can not only tap their expertise but also get their commitment to tackling a problem that affects the entire company . |
| 16 | they help unfreeze fixed ways of thinking and generate new or more ways of tackling a problem |
| 17 | Environment was ‘ very worried indeed ’ about Cumbria 's difficulties in tackling a problem of planning and land use . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The fourth class was tackling a problem to do with the Muslim Inheritance laws . |
| 20 | He was tackling a problem , to find the heaviest of three parcels . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | JOHN WOODCOCK , a Daily Mail reporter , was praised by police yesterday for tackling a shotgun raider single-handed . |
| 23 | But when the fire team are training or tackling a blaze within the perimeter he puts on a red fireman 's helmet as a member of their support system . |
| 24 | Firefighters spent much of yesterday tackling a blaze on Strensall Common near York . |
| 25 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 26 | Process is the word used to describe how someone or a group is tackling a task . |
| 27 | In effect the strategy of " privatising from within " was pushed even further , by giving additional powers and freedoms to managers , introducing a quasi-market , and tackling a number of other organisational rigidities . |
| 28 | FIREMEN last night spent several hours tackling a fire at Mordon Southside Farm near Mordon , Sedgefield . |
| 29 | TEN firemen were in hospital with a mystery illness last night — just two days after tackling a death blast at a chemical plant . |
| 30 | Researchers believe the vaccine is a major breakthrough in tackling a form of pneumonia , meningitis and septaecemia , caused by the microorganism streptococcus pneumoniae . |