Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ she-male ’ character of the Bessy is not merely a woman impersonated by a man , but denotes a combination of both male and female , a total unity encompassing the whole in primitive man 's attempt to understand the universe . |
| 2 | Indeed , the Angolan constitution contains a provision prohibiting the installation of foreign military bases . |
| 3 | Did the runner bringing the news from the battlefield run straight past him when he reached the town ? |
| 4 | Dynamic input of the text involves the user generating the text at run-time using either an electronic bitpad or electronic paper . |
| 5 | The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed . |
| 6 | He just looked so intolerably sexy , lounging on the white sofa , his body lean and powerful , the open-necked black polo shirt drawing the eye to that muscle-packed chest , his black jeans enhancing his long legs . |
| 7 | Should the log on attempt fail , the best course of action is to check the user name , delete the password using the LINEFEED key , and re-enter the password . |
| 8 | The presentation was an excellent example of design expertise using the C.A.D. and the latest computerised sample machine . |
| 9 | the tenancy must not contain any provision allowing the landlord to terminate the tenancy within six months of the beginning of the tenancy |
| 10 | One of her students , Simon , was having difficulty gathering the money to pay his yearly fees , despite working every available holiday . |
| 11 | The 1984 Rates Act also requires councils to consult with representatives of ‘ commercial and industrial ’ ratepayers before setting a rate , a measure reflecting the government 's concern about the impact of rates upon business costs . |
| 12 | ‘ He had difficulty handling the material , ’ recalled Dobereiner' . |
| 13 | Unstalling the wings takes away the cause of the autorotation and then the wings can be brought level using the stick and rudder normally . |
| 14 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 15 | Two movements of the Mass in C minor were also given their first hearing in Salzburg cathedral , probably with Constanze singing the soprano part . |
| 16 | The characteristic hunting pose of an owl quartering the ground or flying fast and low towards something it 's spotted below it . |
| 17 | These repairs were all done on the progressive system , one man and an apprentice seeing the job through , from stripping to the completed repair . |
| 18 | Our customers appear quite happy with the rules regarding redemption of credit vouchers , but in exceptional cases , where the customer might have difficulty using the credit vouchers , some alternative means of reimbursement will be found . |
| 19 | But the bit fastening the waistband to the skirt is huge great stitches and very coarse thread , which is actually a bit of a shame . |
| 20 | Like Ari , she had no difficulty accepting the idea Tammuz had once been Ewan , but there was no way she could really feel this odd , crazed man was the one she 'd loved before . |
| 21 | Difficulty accepting the break-up of the relationship with her boyfriend ( for the past 6 months , worse in the last day ) . |
| 22 | The boater was on her head and she was looking at herself , her bare right foot touching the floor lightly . |
| 23 | There was no porter manning the reception desk , so he did n't have to be signed in after all . |
| 24 | Supported relational databases include an internal SQL database processor using the operating systems files or industry standards like Oracle , Ingres , Sybase and Rdb . |
| 25 | HWIM attempts to find just the n highest scoring ‘ seed ’ words anywhere in the utterance , the remainder being predicted top-down by the syntactic/semantic component using the seed words as starting points . |
| 26 | Those firms who did not have one strong business driver building the operation were often unable to establish a business base in the late 1970s . |
| 27 | I suspect the vehicle has a worn steering relay or other steering component allowing the vehicle to ‘ wander ’ . |
| 28 | It incorporated a common interface component allowing the use of different operating systems and this part had been added by a former employee of the plaintiff who had a similar program and interface . |
| 29 | Externally the palazzo is severe and a little dull — though you should look for the symbol of the Viscontis , the snake eating the saracen — but inside it is exquisite , comprising two courtyards which are occasionally open to the visitor ; as the palazzo now houses private offices , visiting is not unrestrained . |
| 30 | Slowly and carefully , he withdrew the Steyr-Mannlicher .308 hunting rifle that he 'd bought that same afternoon using the cash from the sale of his car and the Firearm Variation certificate that had been issued to Ian Sampson . |