Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothing else , leadership is about building this basis ( Bartolme , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | There are grounds for doubting this opinion . |
| 3 | My only reason for including this story is to record the short but pithy comment of Canada 's leading humorist who , when we had paused to take in the scene , turned to me and said , ‘ I do n't think it 's a bit funny ! ’ |
| 4 | So well no yeah , is it worth seeing this guy ? |
| 5 | She was annoyed with herself for allowing this man to overhear her secret thoughts . |
| 6 | So I 'll just say thank you to the management of the Seraglio for allowing this conference to take place in such pleasant surroundings , and to you ladies for giving up your weekend to be here . |
| 7 | But there are other even more fundamental reasons for allowing this appeal , and they are concerned with the judge 's actions and decisions which led up to his discharge of the jury . |
| 8 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 9 | Gouzenko had obvious reasons for perpetuating this myth and was always astute enough to embroider his story with whatever facts the listener wanted to hear , eventually becoming so vain that even he did not know what was truth or fiction . |
| 10 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 11 | The capacity of closeknit networks to exert normative pressure formed a basis for using this speaker variable not only descriptively , but to explore more radically patterns of language maintenance and change . |
| 12 | It would be a good idea to develop a formula for using this kind of programme so that you know precisely what kind of item you are looking for and , if you can arrange for a regular supply , you do n't need to spend a lot of time viewing it to work out how you are going to use it . |
| 13 | MINIS , at its simplest , represents ‘ an … attempt to collect information about a Department 's activities and to place responsibility for using this information with the Department 's top management , Ministerial and official ’ ( Richards , 1987 , p. 26 ) . |
| 14 | It is worth pursuing this example . |
| 15 | It is also well worth using this style sheet as the starting point for any new ones . |
| 16 | Erm , we have looked again at the programme for building this road . |
| 17 | A Curriculum Co-ordinating Committee ( CCC ) was responsible for editing this document to represent the work of each area in a standard format . |
| 18 | The reason for accepting this approach rather than asking for a ‘ block allocation ’ is simply the conviction that the summation of functional budgets produces a larger and more defensible total . |
| 19 | As we have seen , there are good reasons for accepting this proposal . |
| 20 | The Conservative government of Edward Heath was criticised for accepting this position in 1973 , and in 1974–5 the new Labour government renegotiated British membership . |
| 21 | But if we had no independent reason for accepting this conclusion , such as the argument from error provides , we would take it as a point against his theory that it shows we do n't know the most central and obvious things such as that we are not brains in vats , that there is a material world or that the world began more than five minutes ago . |
| 22 | Some wariness is in order , then , about accepting this distinction as no more than uncontentious conceptual clarification . |
| 23 | ‘ It could be worth contacting this colonel . |
| 24 | Thanks for suggesting this month 's solo go to Mr J. Webb from Barking , Essex ; a couple of sets of Scalar strings , courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron U.K. will be sent soon ! |
| 25 | Thanks for suggesting this month 's solo go to Mr. J. Humphries from Maidstone , Kent . |
| 26 | My thanks for suggesting this month 's solo go to Mr. B. Searles from Cork in Ireland . |
| 27 | My thanks for suggesting this month 's solo go to Mr. F. Donavan from Milton Keynes ; a couple of sets of Scalar strings , courtesy of Clive Norris at Selectron , will be sent on their way to you soon . |
| 28 | My thanks for suggesting this month 's solo go to Mr J. Evans from Cardiff , Wales . |
| 29 | The constable will wheel me , ’ he rapped out ; and Breeze was grateful to him for suggesting this arrangement . |
| 30 | What , it occurred to him , was the difference between accepting this contribution to his expenses and taking the kind of bribe Jonathan Minter had offered him ? |