Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth class was tackling a problem to do with the Muslim Inheritance laws . |
| 2 | He 'll be walking a tightrope trying to keep the farm profitable and respond to those pressures . |
| 3 | A woman walking a dog heard 12 shots on Sunday as she passed the house . |
| 4 | Pedigree Petfoods will be launching a promotion to celebrate World Animal Day on October 4 . |
| 5 | MORTGAGE lenders sparked a storm yesterday by launching a campaign to crack down on crooked lawyers who run off with £20 million a year . |
| 6 | A host of celebrities from music and showbusiness put their names to an advert in last Saturday 's Guardian , launching a campaign to publicise abuses of power on our doorstep . |
| 7 | Christian Aid is launching a campaign to stop cheap European beef being ‘ dumped ’ in west Africa and destroying the livelihoods of millions of local cattle farmers . |
| 8 | On 21 May the RSPB is launching a campaign aimed at achieving a total ban on the import of wild-caught birds into Europe . |
| 9 | ChildLine is launching a campaign to raise £500,000 for its free helpline service . |
| 10 | Czechoslovakian ecologists are launching a campaign to prevent large areas of national park land in Slovakia 's Tatra mountains from being developed by an American company as a sports and tourism complex . |
| 11 | THOSE who yearn for the smiling helpfulness of American skiing , but whose credit limits do not permit access to it , can console themselves with the news that the French resort of Les Arcs is launching a campaign to distinguish itself from competing resorts by encouraging staff to be unfailingly polite . |
| 12 | His tongue-in-cheek comment came as he departed from the text of his speech launching a campaign to encourage hotels to adopt environmentally friendly practices to praise the restoration of Warsaw 's new Bristol Hotel . |
| 13 | Even Humberside county council is launching a campaign to show the people that they have been wrong all these years and should have loved it . |
| 14 | Next week is Europe Against Cancer Week , and she and Sheila Mclean are launching a charity called the Karnak Charitable Trust . |
| 15 | Launching a document called Green Power , energy spokesman Kevin Barron , said that Labour would change the existing levy on fossil fuels used for other energy sources ( primarily nuclear power ) into a clean energy levy . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , in Paris , GPT , the £1.8billion quasi-British telecoms combine , was launching a company to exploit the liberalisation of the French market . |
| 17 | DARREN ANDERTON has given Tottenham 's walking wounded a boost by launching a bid to join next week 's Coca-Cola Cup crusade at Nottingham Forest . |
| 18 | English Nature is launching a programme to reintroduce the dormouse , once common throughout the country , now restricted to isolated sites in the south and west . |
| 19 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 20 | He must have been about to take a shower , she realised , noticing a towel flung carelessly on to the bed , and seeing for the first time that his shirt was undone almost to the waist , revealing his broad , muscular chest with its lavish covering of silky golden hair . |
| 21 | For the current purpose , demonstrating that they were different is sufficient to illustrate two main points : that understanding a place involves uncovering the multivariate and inter-related nature of its culture , for which the three components of the schema in chapter 3 provide a valuable framework ; and that without understanding the nature of a place in all its complexity , it is difficult to appreciate what happens there during particular events — simple , monocausal explanations ( often located in the sphere of production ) are usually insufficient . |
| 22 | One wonders just exactly how much banging a drum has to do with growing up , but the central issue of manhood is one which is certainly worth addressing . |
| 23 | Development revenue was expected to be almost Rps10,400,000 million , including programme aid of Rps1,500,000 million and project aid of Rps8,900,000 million — representing a reduction compared with the last budget . |
| 24 | At the age of eleven he went to London to work , eventually becoming a butcher employed by Thomas Pickworth , a staunch Calvinist . |
| 25 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 26 | This should prevent certain other locations , like the chair in front of the television , becoming a cue to start eating . |
| 27 | this , this is obviously where the brightest area is and that is becoming a bit burned out because erm if it was an automatic camera that was used it 's exposed for this consequently over-exposing on the inside of the boat . |
| 28 | Apportioning of blame ( to home , social conditions , indifferent teaching ) will not resolve the situation or prevent tomorrow 's schools becoming a battleground littered with the emotional corpses of children and teachers . |
| 29 | This incarnational theology was partially recaptured by Luther , who accepted the classic position of St Gregory of Nazianzus that Christ in becoming a man became a real human being , the same in nature as ourselves — excepting that the Lord never sinned . |
| 30 | Where the implications of becoming a carer have been discussed in advance by all involved , so that some agreement has been reached about the amount of help it is possible to give , the outlook is more optimistic ( Nissel and Bonnerjea , 1982 ) . |