Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kept saying something about building a parade of really modern shops . |
| 2 | How about building a hedgehog house ? |
| 3 | In one sense CBHPs are not about building a grass roots community health movement but more about broadening the popular understanding of the root causes of ill health . |
| 4 | Now they 're talking about building a bypass around Winchelsea . |
| 5 | One hears so many discussions in the name of drama from children in role as town councillors arguing about building a swimming baths or an old people 's home . |
| 6 | However , in the same Pul Eliya context , the business of the two pots with the gold coins formed part of the procedure for bringing a spirit medium out of his state of possession , while the business of the head shroud worn by an individual in a state of dangerous sanctity occurred in an elaborate ritual for the painting of the eyes of a new image of the Lord Buddha . |
| 7 | The connotations of this in the creation of manhood were made clear by Baden Powell , founder of the Scout movement , who observed that masturbation checks the semen from getting its full chance of making the strong , manly man : ‘ You are throwing away the seed that has been handed down to you as a trust instead of keeping it and ripening it for bringing a son to you later on . ’ |
| 8 | The period of limitation for bringing an action arising out of carriage under the CMR convention is one year . |
| 9 | where you have missed the time limit for presenting an unfair dismissal application ( the normal limitation period for bringing an action for breach of contract in the civil courts is six years , rather than the strict three-month time limit for pursuing an unfair dismissal claim ) ; |
| 10 | This places an additional responsibility on an Area Director in deciding whether an applicant for legal aid has reasonable grounds for bringing an action as plaintiff — the Director may be protecting unassisted defendants as well as the public purse . |
| 11 | The CPA 1987 amends the Limitation Act 1980 with respect to time limits for bringing an action ( see s6(6) and Sched 1 ) . |
| 12 | The best reason for including a Giant in your army is that they are very entertaining ! |
| 13 | Yet the Franks have received criticism for including a lot of songs dedicated fans will already own . |
| 14 | Excellence is not necessarily a criterion for including a picture or a sculpture in a chronological survey . |
| 15 | Such measures involve different aspects : physical security , such as the security of disk storage facilities , from flood as well as unauthorised access ; software security , such as maintaining a log of all failed access requests ; and , operational security , for example with regard to work data being taken home by employees , and periodic data protection audits of the computer systems . |
| 16 | In a compliance system , in contrast , there is much less concern for proving a violation took place ; indeed widespread reliance on strict liability would make the question of proof relatively straightforward if matters ended up in court . |
| 17 | I often think about seeing a therapist , in the hope that one day I 'll be able to have a fulfilling love life . |
| 18 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |
| 19 | There was nothing really strange about seeing a rabbit . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've asked her to think over her position , including her story about seeing a light in her brother 's office from the kitchen this morning . |
| 21 | Ian Wiley of Ireland had a time some 3 seconds faster than the winner but his 5 second penalty for touching a gate put him in 4th place overall . |
| 22 | However , the laws may well be useful for transforming a program after it has been developed , or for making a program more amenable to some proof technique . |
| 23 | Consideration is requested for allowing a capital gains tax loss on a qualifying loan to a trader to be set against income , thereby encouraging investment in new businesses . |
| 24 | Detective Constable Julie Bignall was reported for allowing a prisoner to plait her hair . |
| 25 | Optical tablets using infra red beams to detect the position of a stylus are not nearly as sensitive as the other systems but are quite adequate for allowing a finger to be used to select an item from a program menu . |
| 26 | Besides its low-profile OMG Common Object Request Broker Architecture-compliant Application Control Architecture Service ( ACAS ) application integration scheme ( UX No 435 ) , it thinks COSE might like Habitat , its technology for allowing an operating system to take on the personality of another as it does with Unix SVR4 on its OSF/1 platform ( UX Nos 423 , 436 ) . |
| 27 | West Germany has so far denied , although with a detectable degree of ambiguity , that any deal was made , preferring to point to the humanitarian reasons for allowing an evacuation of the embassy , and the pressure supposedly exerted on East Germany by the Soviet Union to bring the occupation to a speedy end . |
| 28 | At Mildenhall in Suffolk in the spring of 1688 , a parson threatened to bring a Nonconformist minister before a JP for preaching a sermon , saying that it should cost him £20 ( the fine for preaching at a conventicle under the terms of the 1670 Act , whose operation had just been suspended ) . |
| 29 | We can distinguish between using an expression and attending to an expression . |
| 30 | It can be frustrating when I 'm pursuing some grand design such as building a shed or planting a hedge ; but I suppose it teaches that life is a process of becoming . |