Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaign badges and honour markings , yes , those of course , on the greaves protecting their right shanks — in many cases quartered and augmented with extra honours . |
| 2 | A pamphlet produced by the Department of Trade and Industry ( The Single Market — an action checklists for business , May 1989 , HMSO ) perhaps best sums up how companies can take advantage of the single market in terms of protecting their existing markets and developing new markets . |
| 3 | This too failed , on the basis that in unlawful means conspiracy , as in conspiracy to injure , there must be an intent to injure the plaintiff , and conspiracy should not be extended ‘ beyond acts done in execution of an agreement entered into by two or more persons for the purpose not of protecting their own interests but of injuring the interests of the plaintiff . ’ |
| 4 | Significantly , 81 per cent gave protecting their own provider units a low ranking , a marked change from the previous year and in line with the case study findings . |
| 5 | ‘ Those representing developed countries were primarily interested in protecting their own industries and jobs and security at the polls , not in protecting the environment . |
| 6 | See dockers are only protected , when they say they go on strike , they 're only protecting their own jobs in my opinion . |
| 7 | They 're protecting their own jobs . |
| 8 | ‘ They are protecting their miserable skins while Ireland falls further into my grasp . ’ |
| 9 | The skua colony turned out to be impressive , with few eggs but a host of great and Arctic skuas all intent on protecting their chosen nest site at all costs . |
| 10 | These models suggest that women 's and men 's subjectivities stem from female and male animals , universally different interests , in protecting their genetic investments and spreading their genes widely , respectively . |
| 11 | Poland and Lithuania have signed an agreement aimed at protecting their natural environment . |
| 12 | It does have a its prime function is erm protecting the coalescence of Harrogate and Knaresborough and and protecting their special character . |
| 13 | Although Crewe are reluctant to sell , Hignett now seems certain to follow in the footsteps of Platt , Rob Jones and Geoff Thomas , who all moved on to win international honours after launching their first team careers at Gresty Road . |
| 14 | From 1968 , the PLO sent raiding parties into Israel from southern Lebanon and the Israelis responded by launching their own revenge raids , often against Lebanese villages . |
| 15 | The Business Start-Up scheme , which helps the unemployed in launching their own business , will be extended with the creation of 10,000 new places . |
| 16 | Yet those who sail in fragile craft should hesitate before launching their own torpedoes . |
| 17 | Every summer they bloated on the surfeits of the garden and waddled hopelessly about like feathery puffballs , pondering , I thought , on the unlikeliness of launching their fat selves into the laughing air again . |
| 18 | And next month the port 's owners , Sealink , will hit back by launching their fast Sealynx service . |
| 19 | Things may change after April 2nd , when retail prices are to rise by 60% , though most workers are too afraid of plunging the country into chaos to give the miners whole-hearted support by staging their own strikes . |
| 20 | It 's a story that 's been told thousands of times since Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol , and now a group of disabled students from Herefordshire Technical college 's assisted learning unit are staging their own version . |
| 21 | But Brook supporters have decided to hit back by staging their own demonstration to support the centre 's work . |
| 22 | But beneath the monument to Afrikaanerdom , the racist right wing were staging their biggest demonstration yet . |
| 23 | Five of London 's finest hairdressers have teamed together and will be opening their new salon , Parsons Skott , on Midsummers Eve , June 20th . |
| 24 | Oxford City are opening their new ground at marston … with a local derby … |
| 25 | Oxford City are opening their new ground at marston … with a local derby … |
| 26 | It was once owned by a cotton baron from Lancashire ; today it belongs to Brian and Ann who left Australia ( where they worked as wool buyers ) to fulfil their long-time ambition of opening their own hotel . |
| 27 | To display their collection of everything from Islamic ceramics to the Russian Avant-garde they have made substantial long-term loans as well as opening their own museums . |
| 28 | To make certain board members responsible to workers and presumably others to suppliers , others to customers and others to the general public would change the board into a kind of parliament with members representing their various constituencies . |
| 29 | Besides laughing with a comforting or gratifying sense of superiority when confronted with pictures of the incompetence of figures who the readers may recognize as representing their fellow men , the readers may also be regarded , she suggests , as laughing at common humankind and thus also ( unconsciously ) at themselves . |
| 30 | The professional diplomatists had the duties of representing their own states , of negotiating for them , of observing , and of keeping their governments informed . |