Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rodber was taken off with spinal concussion midway through the second half , and within minutes Richards was shepherding a maul forty metres downfield . |
| 2 | The unit , which is launching a £50,000 fund-raising campaign for a refurbishment project , holds the test on Monday , June 15 , when expert advice and information will be given for a fee of £1 . |
| 3 | JAGUAR is to axe another 200 jobs days after launching a £2 million TV ad campaign . |
| 4 | ON January 1 the National Centre for Alternative Technology , one of the focal points in Britain 's emerging green network , is going public and eight weeks later will be launching a £1.25 million share issue . |
| 5 | Then in September it burst back into life launching a £14m hostile bid ( its first ever ) for Torday & Carlisle . |
| 6 | ARGYLL group , which runs the Safeway supermarkets , yesterday headed off market fears of another big cash call by launching a £150 million fixed-rate Eurobond issue , replacing expensive short-term debt with a cheaper long term loan . |
| 7 | This argument comes up repeatedly : its latest manifestation is Hoyle 's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 . |
| 8 | Designing , implementing and understanding a brand new architecture , such as the blackboard system , is complicated enough without trying to solve the problems of speech processing at the same time . |
| 9 | The affair had come to light in late January when a United Kingdom businessman , Paul Pearson , representing a South African-registered company , Dove Trading International , was stopped and searched at Moscow 's Sheremetyevo Airport on his way out of the country . |
| 10 | Below the " room " was a scale ( 4 cm to ! m ) and a drawing of a rectangle representing a bed 2 m by 1 m . |
| 11 | Important investments during the twelve months to June 1991 included a joint venture between US General Motors and Raba , involving a $200 million capital injection , and between Japanese Suzuki and Autoconcern , finalized in April 1991 , representing a $150 million investment . |
| 12 | ‘ I find Leonora is becoming a bit active — curious about things — as chairman . |
| 13 | Becoming a steam powered reality in June 1980 . |
| 14 | Hayling had been excluded from becoming a Founder first because of his job policing the project for the GLC grant , and then because he was working for the company . |
| 15 | The benefits of becoming a Parcelforce Standard contract customer are considerable — both for you and your business . |
| 16 | I have to say , however , that whenever he thought I was becoming a shade morbid on visions of apocalyptic doom , my old friend Archie Dow , would admonish me : ’ Ach , Andra , I 've been waitin' fir the end i' the world all my life . |
| 17 | ‘ As a nation there are worrying signs that we are becoming a people ready to scoff , eager to knock authority whether it deserves it or not , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Yes and erm I came down here erm just at the time I was becoming a nun thirty thirty odd years ago . |
| 19 | She was becoming a trifle uneasy at Glyn 's bossiness . |
| 20 | Margaret began working as a Beamer in the Winding Department in January 1958 , a position she held for 26 years before becoming a clerkess responsible for recording production statistics . |
| 21 | Having finally decided that it does want to get into the merchant semiconductor market , IBM Corp says it is looking to arrange a number of semiconductor industry alliances , with the aim of becoming a world top 10 company in chip sales . |
| 22 | But Fogerty 's Hollywood dreams will not deter him from his other ambitions — such as becoming a League international just like his dad Terry . |
| 23 | he was greatly concerned , too , with getting the correct scale of things , emphasising that the eye can only see at one glance an object which in size is one-third of the distance between the object and that eye ; in other words if you are painting a man six feet high you should be 18 feet away from him . |
| 24 | For other instant transformations you could jazz up an all-white kitchen say , by adding red and white tiles and red handles , or by just painting a stripe all along between drawers and cupboard doors . |
| 25 | Today 's with all the space hungry applications that are appearing a 40Mb hard disk is the de-facto minimum for a DOS based machine . |
| 26 | Seventeen months later the firm , which employs barely 100 people , carried off another giant-slaying trick by landing a £38 million trains order for the Malaysian railway KTM in the face of competition from BREL and a leading Japanese manufacturer . |
| 27 | Seventeen months later the firm , which employs barely 100 people , carried off another giant-slaying trick by landing a £38 million trains order for the Malaysian railway KTM in the face of competition from BREL and a leading Japanese manufacturer . |
| 28 | Landing a 7lb wild brown trout — I 'd have to kill that . |
| 29 | I have also pointed to external critique , where we try to get students to form a view of the object of their studies , employing a perspective other than their home discipline . |
| 30 | Half of these preferred a non-executive style appointment at partnership level , 35% mentioned outside management consultants and 31% said they would consider employing a manager full time . |