Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are over 600 multinationals in a ‘ billion-dollar-club ’ and a host of smaller fry all competing for a share of the market . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll be very disappointed if I 'm not competing for a place in the first one-day international on January 16 . |
| 3 | His mouth opened slightly , her tongue touched his upper lip once , then slipped away again ; she kissed him quickly on the cheek and turned , walked to a doorway , fumbling for a key in a small purse she took from her old fur coat . |
| 4 | More than a hundred people have been caught speeding through a contraflow on the M-four in just two days . |
| 5 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 6 | Cunningham was leafing through a copy of the Financial Times at his desk amidst a cloud of cigar-smoke , beaming like some genial movie mogul , altogether unaffected , it seemed , by the events of the previous night . |
| 7 | You are now equipped to play the game : what is the ideal position for each of these machines allowing for you , the craftsman , to work around them and allowing for a board of a chosen dimension to go across that production set-up ? |
| 8 | Even allowing for a difference in the extent of lateralisation of executive aspects of speech , revealed by the Wada test , and receptive aspects , tapped by the dichotic listening technique , this figure of IS per cent is too high to accord with the evidence from brain damaged populations . |
| 9 | In the cross-piece this is achieved by lashing through a hole in the cross member and around the outside of the stanchion . |
| 10 | What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres . |
| 11 | A FIREFIGHTER who had to be airlifted to hospital after crashing through a footbridge into an isolated stream yesterday spoke of his ordeal . |
| 12 | It is this extra sum which the estate is using as a stick against the BMC , in the hope that it will stump up the cash as the estate can not afford to invest this much in climbing . |
| 13 | In 1987–8 there were 29 polytechnics in England and one in Wales , catering for a quarter of a million students ; of these , 95% were on advanced courses . |
| 14 | It 's never going to rumble through the floor in the way that a similarly priced 4x10 would , but they 're obviously catering for a gap in the market which is n't being filled very successfully . |
| 15 | Times may be hard in those places , but note how few people are clamouring for a return to the let's-stay-poor-together socialism of the past . |
| 16 | Only six weeks after making their solemn covenant-pledge with God the people are clamouring for a replica of the old gods of Egypt . |
| 17 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 18 | But it will reduce the likelihood of those forces re-emerging as a threat to the West and favour a better military balance between the former Soviet republics . |
| 19 | The Minister shook hands firmly with Erika , his eye resting for a moment on the F.G.Y. badge in her lapel . |
| 20 | This relationship has been a concern , however , of those who perceive the growth of central government financing as a threat to the independence of local government . |
| 21 | Attendance at these affairs , which involves queueing for the sandwiches , queueing for a glimpse of the Queen , queueing for the lavatories , queueing to leave , is potent evidence of the continuing talismanic influence of the monarchy . |
| 22 | The four of us ( Kev , Mark H , Kirsty , and me ) wanted to go , but copped out after we got soaked just queueing for a burger outside the ground . |
| 23 | Mr Thabane and the boy got out and pushed , struggling for a footing in the sand . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'm goin' through a bit of a personality crisis at the moment . |
| 25 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 26 | However , reports on May 22 indicated that the strike was only patchily supported , with as few as 1,500 people gathering for a rally outside the Supreme Soviet building . |
| 27 | The finding of normal concentrations of albumin , retinol binding protein , and triglyce ide among cancer patients , irrespective of the stage and tumour grade , excludes nutritional wasting as a cause of the hypocholesterolaemia . |
| 28 | Mildred had bought a mask which featured hair made from uncarded sheep 's wool , and which had produced moths only after hanging for a year on the landing of her staircase . |
| 29 | But now the 14-man climbing team , mainly Territorial Army men , must sit tight at base camp , praying for a break in the weather . |
| 30 | Afterwards , while the congregation said the rosary , praying for an end to the war , I heard individual confessions — confessions in wartime are particularly painful and I find the experience more harrowing than any other of my duties as a priest . |