Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six men have appeared in court charged with conspiring to plant a fake bomb on a residential street . |
| 2 | The Labour party is trying to prop up its popularity in Scotland by seeking to impose a similar solution on the rest of England . |
| 3 | This showed that the way he used himself when reciting had a marked effect on his voice and breathing . |
| 4 | Examples of some of the work these students have already done within publishing include a detailed report on printing possibilities in various countries for a leading educational publisher ; carrying out market research for a major trade house ; and general administration and office management for a small marketing and distribution company . |
| 5 | – Now this remark implied that she was going to mount a substantial assault on the traditional nature of Cabinet government , which is collective discussion — free-ranging before decisions are reached . |
| 6 | ‘ They were going to try a new drug on him which had never been tested on a human being before in an effort to try and stop the progress of the tumour . |
| 7 | I 'm glad you like my essay , but I do n't like what you 're doing ’ , or would he think ‘ oh dear I 've got to put with this or she 's going to write a bad report on me ’ . |
| 8 | My hands are going to write a single word on the outside of the empty folder , in the space for Subject . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , attempting to detect a cyclical trend on the basis of just three cycles is a risky enterprise . |
| 10 | If you expect that child is going to do a fantastic job on that painting then that encouragement and confidence is coming across . |
| 11 | I 'm going to do a wee demonstration on how to do it now . |
| 12 | I 'm going to keep a short rope on you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 13 | There were ten boys and two girls , ranging from six to fourteen years , going to start a new life on the farm schools in Australia . |
| 14 | The authorities are attempting to build a technological society on unpromising foundations . |
| 15 | The answer to that will depend on their own performance , because persuading the other investors to part with a further 12 per cent of their equity will only be possible if they are going to get a good return on it . |
| 16 | The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 17 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 18 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 19 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 20 | But I 'm very concerned obviously as a representative of Shropshire on that Committee , I do n't really want to support something which at the end of the day is going to have a detrimental impact on our own service here . |
| 21 | And , Tim , you and I ought to have a we 're not actually going to have a formal session on self-study , but we have another we have a rather loosely structured session when we can bring up any other matters for erm basically that they 'll want to plan the video session rather carefully as well basically I think we want to follow in on yesterday 's meeting — we want to find out why we 're not selling more videos basically and use the whole of that session if necessary for exploring with the area managers why we 're not doing twice or three times as well as we are . |
| 22 | These characteristics , which are inheritable , concern us because they are going to have a profound effect on our relationship with the horse . |
| 23 | We have been in business a long time and not being selected by one particular country is not going to have a significant effect on us at all . ’ |
| 24 | Remember though , you can only do this in open water ; if there are snags around you can bet the bream will head for them , and there is no way you are going to stop a big bream on 2lb line . |
| 25 | Now we 're just going to 'ave a little hoppin' on the spot " |
| 26 | Although the Government has maintained the real value of the retirement pensions , its breaking of the link between state pensions and earnings ( see Part II ) is beginning to have a devastating effect on the relative income of the poorest pensioners . |
| 27 | At the same time as these theories were being explored in the world of school — theories designed to make the pupil the equal of the teacher — the concept of equality was beginning to have a powerful effect on education in a more overtly political sense . |
| 28 | However , the programme of rationalisation , cost reduction and production efficiencies is beginning to have a positive impact on the company . |
| 29 | Although Glumdalclitch tried to make things as comfortable as possible for me , such an exhausting life was beginning to have a bad effect on my health . |
| 30 | Such resentments are beginning to take a visible toll on the company . |