Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 3 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Every time I called him Daddy , it must have been like twisting a knife in a wound , ’ she said , with a shiver . |
| 6 | Now North had the problem - would Three Spades be taken as a probe for no-trumps ( denying a guard in the suit ) or some sort of control-showing bid agreeing hearts ? |
| 7 | SELLAFIELD bosses are exposed today as liars after denying a cover-up over a leak at the nuclear plant . |
| 8 | ‘ The market in New York is walking a tightrope between a recovery that is too weak and one that is too strong . |
| 9 | ‘ Sit down , ’ Marc told Sarella curtly when the maid had gone out after depositing a tray on a table between them . |
| 10 | One of them was cradling a sub-machine-gun in the crook of his arm . |
| 11 | It must be a trapped bird , he thought , noticing a door at the front where there was a partitioned-off section . |
| 12 | A reader can be fully understanding a section from a story , and yet fail to insert the exact word in a phrase such as " watched the fleeting panorama of shop fronts " , when no other information about the shop fronts is given . |
| 13 | Kennedy J. , at p. 346 , said : " To make a … rule which has the effect of debarring a man from the exercise of an absolute statutory right , unless he complies with a number of requirements is … clearly ultra vires . " |
| 14 | I waved to the toddling girl who was over by the window again , banging a fist on the pane and watching the rain drizzle down . |
| 15 | We could only find the paths and drives by banging a crowbar on the ground : when it hit the gravel it rang . |
| 16 | Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me . |
| 17 | All the more unfortunate does this become in the presence of narrow majorities , each representing a minority of the electorate , sometimes a small minority , and when at least one of the parties believes that the prerogatives and rights conferred by electoral victory , however narrow , not merely entitle but compel it to impose on the helpless but unorganized majority irreversible changes for which it never consciously voted and to which most of its members are opposed . |
| 18 | However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) . |
| 19 | Representing a country with a reputation for hard-nosed materialism , the Eagles earned the heartfelt admiration of their Canadian counterparts on the occasion of the 16th annual Can-Am international staged in Denver , Colorado , on June 13 . |
| 20 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 21 | On June 7 Olszewski met with a group of 14 parliamentarians mostly representing a faction of the PC and joined by Wlodarczyk and Roman Bartoszcze , leader of the Polish Peasant Christian Forum . |
| 22 | The front of your cards contains eight unique numbers , each representing a move on the grid . |
| 23 | Pupils were provided with a rectangular grid on which was drawn a rectangle 13 x 16 cm representing a room with a door and window marked on it . |
| 24 | Senators opposed to the treaty denounced it as US colonialism and as representing a violation of the Constitution , most notably in respect of the ban on the presence of nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | The essence of the skill lies in diagnosing a mismatch between the designer 's intentions and what happens in the classroom and then deciding if the mismatch is such that modifications in the unit are necessary . |
| 26 | After working as a structural engineering designer he was a draughtsman with aircraft firms before becoming a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in civil engineering and aeronautics ( 1922–39 ) . |
| 27 | Prior to becoming a stain on the moss , |
| 28 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 29 | It was quite entertaining yesterday , today 's becoming a bit of a bore because the tapes only last forty five minutes , so you 've got |
| 30 | We 'll also be keeping you in touch with the second replay of the first qualifying round of the F A Cup which is taking place at Fort Meadow between Buckingham Town and Brackley Town ; it 's becoming a bit of a saga , the previous two matches ended one all draws . |