Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 2 | It may also be argued that numbering an Information Memorandum shows an intent to control and restrict the circulation and therefore complies with Companies Act 's requirements for prospectuses and the provisions of the FSA . |
| 3 | The German played the last two rounds of the French Open with painkilling injections in her right foot but medics have now ruled out a stress fracture , diagnosing an inflammation of tissue membrane covering a bone in the foot . |
| 4 | Bringing up supplies over long distances through dense woodland in King William 's War ( as the struggle of the 1690s known in England and Europe as the War of the League of Augsburg became known in America ) was so difficult that launching an attack was more a matter of logistics than of strategy . |
| 5 | As the attacker 's front kick sails in towards the target , the defender , by launching an attack of his own , puts his body out of line of the oncoming kick . |
| 6 | Pavlov 's demands for wider economic powers were rejected on June 21 by Gorbachev , who openly criticized conservative deputies who had used Pavlov 's remarks as a platform for launching an attack on Gorbachev 's leadership . |
| 7 | In September 1989 , following a private conference , the Lord Justice was reported as launching an education programme for judges on sentencing and treatment of child sex abusers . |
| 8 | Launching an education action programme called " A Thousand Challenges for the Plant " , Barnier said he wanted to make every young French man or woman an eco-citizen , developing environmental consciousness for future generations . |
| 9 | COUNTY NatWest Investment Management is launching an umbrella indexed fund which allows investors to track markets in different parts of the world and switch between them without incurring huge costs . |
| 10 | Earlier yesterday , the UK telecoms authority Oftel announced it was launching an inquiry into how effective competition had been in improving Britain 's phone services . |
| 11 | The problems there began when de Gaulle flew out to Cairo in the hope of launching an expedition to rally the French mandated territories of Syria and Lebanon . |
| 12 | The Americans landed on the moon in 1969 ; five years later an agency of the British Government is launching an expedition to some metaphorical sun . |
| 13 | As part of its brief , the working party will examine the moral and ethical considerations of launching an advertising campaign . |
| 14 | He has criticised the Government for not launching an advertising campaign on the issue until the general election is called . |
| 15 | BT and five public telephone companies in France , Italy , Germany , Norway and Holland are launching an experiment to test video telephones among more than 100 businesses with cross border European operations . |
| 16 | In case the Government ignores its request to donate the Park to the nation , the Bletchley Park Trust is tonight launching an appeal for £7 million to buy and develop it . |
| 17 | I am delighted to hear that St Nicholas ' Church , long known for its association with sailors and the sea , is launching an appeal to create a special maritime chapel , something the city has lacked for a very long time . |
| 18 | The school is the springboard for sport and , even if commitments are made in later years , early involvement and subsequent progress are important in launching an interest . |
| 19 | He finally over-reached himself — and roused Eisenhower — by launching an investigation into the loyalty of the army itself . |
| 20 | Be ready to cope by assembling an emergency kit containing the following items : |
| 21 | On the other hand where a family has a number of teenage children who could be expected to be in charge of their own belongings then we should consider applying the policy wording and deducting an excess for each person . |
| 22 | There was great relief in Croatia and Slovenia : bringing the court into play had been seen there ( probably correctly ) as a potential device for justifying an army intervention . |
| 23 | But I , like the judge , decline to regard that as justifying an inference that Mr. O'Brien was appointed the bank 's agent . |
| 24 | It 's travelling at one mph and SHOULD be off the motorway by 7.00 pm tonight , with the road opening an hour later . |
| 25 | Hamish Turner gave the figure in an unprecedented statement when opening an inquest into the death of Debra Tosio , 30 , a Shaldon shop assistant found at the bottom of 70ft cliffs at Berry Head , Brixham , last week . |
| 26 | It fits into conventional cisterns , and works by opening an air gap in the siphon as soon as the handle is released . |
| 27 | Precision Software GmbH , the German distributor of Boulder , Colorado-based XVT Inc 's graphical user interface builder is opening an operation in Swindon , UK , called Professional Software Ltd : the unit , run by former Cambridge Computer Graphics sales and marketing manager , Paul Morgan , will take over XVT distribution from London-based Personal Workstations Ltd , which becomes a customer for it . |
| 28 | Precision Software GmbH , the German distributor of Boulder , Colorado-based XVT Inc 's graphical user interface builder is opening an operation in Swindon , UK , called Professional Software Ltd : the unit , run by former Cambridge Computer Graphics sales and marketing manager , Paul Morgan , will take over XVT distribution from London-based Personal Workstations Ltd , which will become a customer for the product . |
| 29 | I once tried to interest Terry Linex in the idea of opening an airfood restaurant . |
| 30 | Opening an area such as this to the public means just that , and together with genuine walkers and climbers arrive the wild flower pickers , the egg stealers and the litter louts . |