Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 7 guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) had killed 26 policeman protecting an installation belonging the state oil company Ecopetrol in the southern intendency of Putumayo . |
| 2 | Indian painters would in this case be painting an image showing the Church 's and the State 's warning to Indians who contemplated rebellion , as many did . |
| 3 | Employing an electroencephalogram to measure the brain waves of opossums when awake , when asleep and when playing dead , investigators were surprised to find that the condition of the brain when death-feigning is taking place is the same as that in the wide-awake animal . |
| 4 | Above all , understanding an utterance involves the making of inferences that will connect what is said to what is mutually assumed or what has been said before . |
| 5 | There was a company developing games ; another developing an instrument called the Synthaxe ; for reasons which nobody could quite discern , there was a company dedicated to the servicing of air-conditioners , and another , called Top Nosh , selling food around industrial estates . |
| 6 | Fifteen shareholders went to court seeking an order to stop the meeting . |
| 7 | This does not prevent members from seeking an injunction to restrain the act from being done , nor does it affect the liability of the directors for such an act ( s. 35(1) — ( 3 ) CA ) . |
| 8 | The major concern in designing an experiment to meet the criteria given above was to avoid obtaining ceiling effects . |
| 9 | The ministers agreed that regulations governing import prices should be strictly enforced by all member states and that top level talks be held with Russia , Norway and Iceland in the hope of securing an agreement to stabilise the market . |
| 10 | Pretty slim , he replied , citing an unwillingness to fragment the industry further . |
| 11 | The possibility that natural communities could be visualized in similar terms occurred to many biologists in the later decades of the century , thus providing an incentive to study the interactions upon which the whole network depended . |
| 12 | In ex parte Johnson , Lord Roskill quoted from the speech of Lord of Morton of Shuna in moving an amendment to delete the words ‘ of his ’ in the relevant clause to establish the context of the ministerial speech opposing the motion . |
| 13 | The De Haan family , which owns 63 per cent of the travel to financial services company , said it was considering an offer to buy the remainder of the shares at about £3 each . |
| 14 | The health authority has made it clear that it is initiating an inquiry to establish the levels of staffing and back-up staffing that are necessary to ensure that there are no shortages . |
| 15 | The Bradwell School Board had assumed control but the Company 's Solicitor was completing an agreement defining the terms of use of the buildings . |
| 16 | One of Rice 's reasons for accepting an invitation to join the board in the first place was his belief that it might lead to a rekindling of the old partnership . |
| 17 | The water in the bare tank is agitated by using an airline to disperse the chlorine in the fresh water for a period of 24 hours . |
| 18 | Firstly the lexicon is pre-processed by using an array to hold the tree nodes , so that the memory required is allocated in one contiguous amount , rather than dynamically allocating each node . |
| 19 | In a similar way , simply asking children to draw a picture of what happened in their play is wasting an opportunity to move the drama forward and make the work purposeful : the picture could have an important part to play in the drama , in which case the quality of both the drama and the art work improves . |
| 20 | EUROPE 'S two A-bomb powers , Britain and France , are opposing an attempt to change the way that the EEC handles its nuclear trade . |
| 21 | Third , the common feature of most routes will be the reliance on a rational reconstruction of a process of bargaining by which the common overriding goal of reaching an agreement leads the parties to compromise by accepting a less than perfect doctrine as the optimally realizable second best . |
| 22 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |
| 23 | Analysis The second step towards constructing an index involves the identification of the concepts within a document which are worthy of indexing . |
| 24 | ‘ They said they were so impressed — and now that green issues are moving up their agenda , they 've become aware that they have to run themselves in a green way — that they are committing three million dollars into researching ‘ golf and the environment ’ , and appointing an ecologist to lead the research . ’ |
| 25 | I confirm that you will be writing extending an invitation to join the group and calling the first meeting for 2p.m. on Tuesday 27th April at the university . |
| 26 | Li Yuan came forward , extending an arm to offer the Marshal a seat . |
| 27 | He was making an attempt to become the Archon . |
| 28 | When the site investigation and market research have been completed , before making an offer to purchase the site it is essential to undertake a financial appraisal or feasibility study . |
| 29 | ‘ Housekeeping on a grand scale , ’ she smiled , making an effort to lighten the atmosphere between them . |
| 30 | ‘ Does this mean that you approve of Silas 's alliance with Doreen ? ’ she asked , making an effort to keep the dismay from her voice . |