Example sentences of "[v-ing] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 2 | The German played the last two rounds of the French Open with painkilling injections in her right foot but medics have now ruled out a stress fracture , diagnosing an inflammation of tissue membrane covering a bone in the foot . |
| 3 | Pavlov 's demands for wider economic powers were rejected on June 21 by Gorbachev , who openly criticized conservative deputies who had used Pavlov 's remarks as a platform for launching an attack on Gorbachev 's leadership . |
| 4 | As the attacker 's front kick sails in towards the target , the defender , by launching an attack of his own , puts his body out of line of the oncoming kick . |
| 5 | Earlier yesterday , the UK telecoms authority Oftel announced it was launching an inquiry into how effective competition had been in improving Britain 's phone services . |
| 6 | The Americans landed on the moon in 1969 ; five years later an agency of the British Government is launching an expedition to some metaphorical sun . |
| 7 | In case the Government ignores its request to donate the Park to the nation , the Bletchley Park Trust is tonight launching an appeal for £7 million to buy and develop it . |
| 8 | He finally over-reached himself — and roused Eisenhower — by launching an investigation into the loyalty of the army itself . |
| 9 | On the other hand where a family has a number of teenage children who could be expected to be in charge of their own belongings then we should consider applying the policy wording and deducting an excess for each person . |
| 10 | Hamish Turner gave the figure in an unprecedented statement when opening an inquest into the death of Debra Tosio , 30 , a Shaldon shop assistant found at the bottom of 70ft cliffs at Berry Head , Brixham , last week . |
| 11 | Precision Software GmbH , the German distributor of Boulder , Colorado-based XVT Inc 's graphical user interface builder is opening an operation in Swindon , UK , called Professional Software Ltd : the unit , run by former Cambridge Computer Graphics sales and marketing manager , Paul Morgan , will take over XVT distribution from London-based Personal Workstations Ltd , which becomes a customer for it . |
| 12 | Precision Software GmbH , the German distributor of Boulder , Colorado-based XVT Inc 's graphical user interface builder is opening an operation in Swindon , UK , called Professional Software Ltd : the unit , run by former Cambridge Computer Graphics sales and marketing manager , Paul Morgan , will take over XVT distribution from London-based Personal Workstations Ltd , which will become a customer for the product . |
| 13 | It is opening an office in San Francisco to be run by its founder and president Jacques Quelene . |
| 14 | Mercury Interactive Corp is moving into Europe with its XRunner and TestRunner software quality testing products , opening an office in Paris : it expects 40% of its revenues out of Europe in 18 months . |
| 15 | He added that " the Gulf crisis must be resolved within an Arab framwork " and announced that the PFLP would shortly be opening an office in Baghdad , although there were no plans to do so in Jordan . |
| 16 | A photocopier sales and servicing firm has created 15 jobs by opening an office in Middlesbrough . |
| 17 | In plain symbolic terms , I thought , no place on earth could be more suitable for opening an account of the newness of the new Pacific Ocean . |
| 18 | Du n no I , there 's a friend of mine and I 'm selling it in the pa have to advertise in the paper as well so that money 's going to it , I 've made , I 'm having a word with the bank manager for business facilities and then opening an account with him at the bank to er basically get some extra , a business account going which I do n't touch , er I need to get credit facilities done on the bank , accounts and stuff , dad 's gon na look through it completely with me and work everything out , but for the next six , seven weeks I 'll be too busy with the school work to really concentrate on it , cos exams start at seven weeks time now |
| 19 | On July 9 the UN in New York announced that it was opening an inquiry into the allegations . |
| 20 | Chung described the agreements as " another giant step towards opening an era of reconciliation and co-operation " between the two countries . |
| 21 | The latter is designed to encourage the horse to avoid hitting fences by applying an irritant to its legs . |
| 22 | A valuation on this basis is determined by applying an estimate of the maintainable future dividends to a suitable dividend yield for the entity or business concerned . |
| 23 | The class text is a specialization of node representing an abstraction of the main body of text . |
| 24 | This is seen as representing an opportunity for the club to achieve its objectives and must be seriously considered . |
| 25 | Sales revenues for scholastic Publications Ltd reached £8.96m for the first half of the company 's financial year ( June to November 1992 ) , representing an increase of 23.5% over the same period in 1991 . |
| 26 | NHS management officially described the Feb. 23 deal as representing an increase of 13.3 per cent over the full two-year period . |
| 27 | Defence spending was raised to Rs157,500 million , representing an increase of 8.6 per cent over the 1989 revised estimates , in view of the situation on the Indo-Pakistan border in Kashmir [ see p. 37246 ] . |
| 28 | In 1990 there were 35,836 applications for asylum , representing an increase of 47 per cent as compared with 1989 , with those from India , Lebanon , Romania and Yugoslavia showing the greatest increases . |
| 29 | The People 's Assembly on Nov. 13 approved a budget for 1991 which provided for expenditure of £S84,690 million ( US$7,548 million ) , representing an increase of 37 per cent over the 1990 budget [ see p. 38069 ] . |
| 30 | This resulted in the issue of approximately 4.2 million new ordinary shares in our company , representing an increase of approximately 2.3 per cent in its issued share capital . |