Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle , any reasonably dry biomass can be gasified ; but the practical problems of using fuels with a high ash content or of low density are quite severe . |
| 2 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 3 | While many people are aware that meat pies are extremely high in fat — around half the calories in some pork pies come from fat — few realise that modern chicken-rearing is producing birds with a higher fat content . |
| 4 | Would not a policy of clobbering savers with an investment surcharge reduce savings and so reduce the pool of available investment capital for manufacturing industry ? |
| 5 | Five months on , seeing Lisa with a plastic eye and seeing how she is , she gets so upset , I would like to have the law changed . |
| 6 | Five months on , seeing Lisa with a plastic eye and seeing how she is , she gets so upset , I 'd really like to have the law changed covering guns . |
| 7 | Perhaps we should all start using words with a more accurate yet emotive appeal to describe what we are producing . |
| 8 | However , when using fabric with a large pattern repeat this can prove wasteful , so your fabric requirement should be calculated as follows : |
| 9 | The following cases were dealt with by Northallerton magistrates : Alan Robert Lazenby , 22 , of Knotto Bottom Road , Northallerton , was convicted of entering building and stealing property valued at £824 , entering a storage container and stealing property valued at £350 , dishonestly attempting to obtain £989.46 worth of goods by deception , dishonestly obtaining goods valued at £77 by deception , driving a van while disqualified and using a van without insurance , without a test certificate , driving while disqualified , failing to provide specimen of blood for analysis , driving car recklessly , using car with a defective tyre , with a defective braking system , failing to report an accident , failing to stop after an accident , failing to stop when required by PC , using a car without insurance ; 15 months imprisonment , licence endorsed , six points , disqualified for three years . |
| 10 | Introductory notes give tips on tension swatches , measurements and knitting methods with a list of suggestions on how to use the designs to create individual and personalised garments . |
| 11 | Females inspect several nests before allowing courtship with a chosen male to proceed . |
| 12 | Theresa was excited by the news and told Maureen that she had sent Eileen two tablets of scented soap and a box of dusting powder with a swansdown puff . |
| 13 | She knew that , after an initial period of gaining experience with a leading European firm , he had set up on his own . |
| 14 | The Regional Government has recently opened a new fish-freezer cold store and has replaced the fish landing dock with a new one near the freezer plant and the road entrance to the harbour . |
| 15 | She paused for a moment , choked with emotion and dabbed her brimming eyes with a tissue . |
| 16 | Blending strokes with a soft round brush will compress the paint down into the canvas , give a smooth static finish to the surface and automatically quieten and control the mood . |
| 17 | Make a hole in the potting compost with a dibber or pencil and poke your cutting into the hole , making sure the rooting end touches the compost at the bottom ; you should get six cuttings in a four-inch pot . |
| 18 | Resolving medical problems , admonishing the transgressors of rules , arbitrating disputes , cracking jokes with a deadpan expression on his face , Guruji is clearly the hub of this community and the force that holds it together . |
| 19 | For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’ |
| 20 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 21 | Along the way he meets Robert Duvall 's Kilgore , who loves the smell of napalm in the morning , Dennis Hopper 's loony photographer and , ultimately , Kurtz , the shaven-headed mumbling philosopher with a penchant for putting heads on sticks . |
| 22 | He 'd just spent the morning on one of his more unusual assignments — photographing pigs with a ‘ food ball ’ . |
| 23 | Hussa was a large , enveloping woman with a large , enveloping sense of humour ; she walked with the rolling gait of a shore-bound sailor and her veils had such a haphazard permanence , you felt they were an outgrowth of her personality rather than a covering . |
| 24 | Bogie was very cool and returning insults with a smile while Mayo was rising in anger and waiters were circling warily around taking up action stations . |
| 25 | It would have been just like her to take a method like this to exact a petty revenge for their disagreements , landing Folly with a pile of unwanted stock that she could n't refuse without souring relations with her supplier . |
| 26 | Older mothers watch their daughters becoming mothers with a wry recognition . |
| 27 | They even have a chance of wounding monsters with a toughness of 8 — not bad for mere mortals ! |
| 28 | Earlier Mr Kinnock embarked on Labour 's self-appointed task of rebuilding Britain with a symbolic eve-of-poll visit to a brickworks . |
| 29 | ( viii ) Pupils should be taught to help the reader by leaving a space between words and by ending sentences with a full stop or question mark and by beginning them with a capital letter . |
| 30 | It is apparent from Hudson 's remarks that inserting cycle facilities into established urban areas is not an easy task , a simple matter of earmarking space with a brush and a bucket of paint . |