Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can do this by setting up a role play . |
| 2 | Public examination systems are constructed on this principle and have another feature too , that of setting up a norm each year , on which each pupil is judged . |
| 3 | What may appear to be an ordinary action , such as picking up a slipper to put it on , can trigger an unusual response from the dog if it has been hit with a shoe in a previous home . |
| 4 | To put the case simply , such a pupil may not be able to undertake a task such as cutting out a paper figure , not because of not understanding how to do so , but because of being unable to see properly how it is done . |
| 5 | If a user undertakes any procedure which results in the movement of modules between locations , such as booking out a module or performing Quality Assurance activitites , the Cyclic Redundancy Check will be performed on each of the modules which have been moved . |
| 6 | Actions associated with sites , such as running round a stone , usually have to be done three or nine times . |
| 7 | Bassist Norman Watt Roy , who was the power behind Ian Dury and has a set of eye-baggage that must be the envy of Barry Norman , puts so much into thumping out a rhythm that the sweat drips from the end of his guitar . |
| 8 | Project English encourages learning through project work : as the pupils work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they gradually build up similar projects of their own by carrying out a number of project tasks . |
| 9 | In fact the latest development is that they do n't even do that by picking up a telephone , the message is teleprinted on , onto a message pad there , and when they run in they pull off this pad , and there 's the whole text for what they 've got to do , where they 've got to go , and so on . |
| 10 | You ca n't win that by filling in a football coupon . |