Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can do is think about the meaning of play and fantasy , and the repercussions of denying a child the sort of toys and television-watching that is allowed to almost every other child . |
| 2 | At the turn of the twentieth century , this ‘ majority rule ’ , as it was known , held sway in the US ; thus denying a shareholder the right to sue a director who used inside information in face to face transactions . |
| 3 | Mrs Frizzell found it impossible to forgive Mrs Dawson 's becoming a widow the same week as her party ; a history of Mrs Dawson one night , and the remarks the following night of the lady secretary of the United Nations ' Society on the role of the Canadian peacekeeping force in Cyprus , had meant that for the first time in years no report of Mrs Frizzell 's party appeared , though room had been found for a report on one of Mrs Murphy 's receptions . |
| 4 | One day you can be swamped by sand and the next climbing a hill the size of Ben Nevis . |
| 5 | Once , 25 or 30 years ago , they were working class East-Enders who could n't run a business but found in driving a cab a way to be free . |
| 6 | The more enlightened and reforming a government the more obviously it must flout feelings of this kind ; and sometimes the price to be paid for flouting them was high . |
| 7 | By inducing an output a in excess of the efficient output Q ' ; , free market equilibrium leads to a social cost equal to the area of the triangle E ' ; EF . |
| 8 | Failure to clear it can only add to the guilt because it is also robbing a relationship the transparency that it lives on . |
| 9 | In Aberdeen South the Tories went one better when Mr Raymond Robertson won the seat from Labour 's Frank Doran , regaining a seat the Conservatives lost in 1987 . |
| 10 | Indeed , it would have been quite natural if , when Picasso became more interested in the purely pictorial problems involved in composing and unifying a picture the size of the Demoiselles , he had begun to look with greater concentration at Cézanne 's later figure work . |
| 11 | Zambia was still standing dejectedly by the reception booth smoking a cigarette the receptionist had given hir out of pity . |
| 12 | Maskell first here 's his record … over the years he 's nearly averaging a goal every other game … quarter of a million pounds he cost Swindon … one of the bargain buys of the season … |
| 13 | Now this was the kind of man that George Albert Smith of Brighton was , and he made a whole range of short films , as all the early filmmakers did , erm publishing a catalogue every so often , and offering his films for sale to other showmen , because as the years passed erm these films became extremely popular . |
| 14 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 15 | ‘ I was writing a song a day at college , ’ she laughs . |
| 16 | Writing a piece a few weeks ago , she had had to think very hard before remembering the American expression for council housing . |
| 17 | I suppose she was used to her filling an armchair every night and just sitting there all night and not doing anything |
| 18 | The statute imposed on a woman seeking an abortion a 24-hour waiting period after she had received the information stipulated by the law . |
| 19 | When making an order or refusing an application the court must state any findings of fact and the reasons for its decision . |
| 20 | In order to illustrate the procedure and problems of designing a simulation an example of changes in a human population will be taken . |
| 21 | It should go without saying these days that to be suffering from something psychosomatic is not to be guilty of lack of moral fibre , but to be exhibiting a condition the cause of which is , at least in part , psychological . |
| 22 | He is also compiling a list a founder members and has appealed for photographs and Press cuttings to help his research . |
| 23 | He is also compiling a list a founder members and has appealed for photographs and Press cuttings to help his research . |
| 24 | A single state company in Usk-Ilimsk region , for example , is felling a forest the size of Switzerland . |
| 25 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 26 | Also higher property transfer taxes and commision rates make selling a house a much less attractive option in Europe so people tend to treat a house as a long term home rather than as an investment . |
| 27 | I am interested in presenting a paper/conducting a seminar for Monadnock International . |
| 28 | Unless one goes to the bother of fetching a ladder every time , the only way up is to scramble chimpanzee-like via a window-sill , the top of the stable partition , the nearest iron roof-girder , and finally the barn wall itself , along which one has to shuffle sideways , sitting down . |
| 29 | In granting an exemption the Commission can attach appropriate conditions to the operation of the agreement such as , for example , a requirement that the parties notify the Commission as to the future operation of the agreement and/or review its operation prior to the expiry of the exemption , to limit the operation of the exemption for a specific period of time so as to enable the Commission to review its operation at some future date . |
| 30 | When construing a plan an objective approach must be assumed , namely that a plan is addressed to a lay reader and is to be construed by the ordinary reasonable observer . |