Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grappling with this problem , feminists who want to draw attention to women 's presence rather than simply adopting male titles have sometimes proposed completely novel words ( for instance Italian dottora , a feminine coining for ‘ doctor ’ that flouts the rules of Italian word-formation ) . |
| 2 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 3 | The old man is walking with some woman and one of those red dogs from the cigarette commercials . |
| 4 | When he reflected on how age and death laid waste man 's being , and saw a means of interfering with that process , he acted as harbinger to the Age of Science then in its first dawn . |
| 5 | The cells are distributed so that callers travelling through cells a fair distance apart can use the same frequencies without interfering with each other , making most use of the limited spectrum available . |
| 6 | Optical arrays are ideal for parallel processing since light beams can cross without interfering with each other — and processing speed remains constant , irrespective of array size , once an image has been converted to an optical format . |
| 7 | This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other . |
| 8 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 9 | I if that is understood and that is accepted that would meet Mr 's point in that it is , it is in fact in order and , and is not interfering with another panel 's responsibilities . |
| 10 | Clause 5 of the Bill would impose an obligation of confidence on a person who improperly acquires information by using or interfering with any computer or data retrieval mechanism , a welcome clarification . |
| 11 | Pupils develop skills and confidence in operating the microcomputer e.g. loading software , through use and by cooperating with each other in the use of the system . |
| 12 | Niklaus is 32 , although he looks no more than 20 , and so talked with gentle mockery about the influence of French climbing on his younger compatriots before announcing with some pride that there will be 1200 routes in the forthcoming Stockholm guide . |
| 13 | The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value . |
| 14 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 15 | The evening was one of international good will , ending with another round of vodkas ‘ for the road ’ . |
| 16 | Useful clinical pointers are the unavailability for various reasons of the patient 's urine tests — lost book , came out in a hurry , left it on the bus — occurring with each clinic visit , and an enquiry as to when the patient last had something to eat . |
| 17 | He , too , took up the theme that it was unfair to encourage a person , who could be dying with each drink he took , to take more . |
| 18 | St Helens won both age groups last year and two of the girls who starred for them then Sue Smith and Rebecca Smith will be returning with that borough 's under-14 side . |
| 19 | But as they were returning with all speed , Rodrigo of Bivar raised the country , and came up with them in the mountains of Oca , and fell upon them and discomfited them , and won back all their booty , and took all the five Kings prisoners . |
| 20 | Mansell is driving with former Formula One and Indycar champion Mario Andretti , once his teammate with Lotus in the early 1980s , but still a rival this weekend . |
| 21 | The book is brimming with little aperçus : why , if dogs eat only meat , do their breaths smell of fish ? ; why , when the credits roll at the end of a film , are more songs listed than one can remember having heard ? |
| 22 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 23 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 24 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 25 | They are used to politicians listening with some care to their demands , and the evidence of this attention and the obvious impact of general elections is usually sufficient to make them feel that the old maxims of the Westminster model still have some meaning . |
| 26 | These worlds are , so to speak , alongside each other but incapable of communicating with each other in any way . |
| 27 | These animals were also communicating with each other , but we were only able to catch the deep rumbles which are the upper harmonies of their conversation . |
| 28 | Gavin had a look of concentration on his face now , as though two parts of his brain were attempting the tricky and little-practised operation of communicating with each other . |
| 29 | The police had prohibited any confrontation at the game , so the Bushwackers tracked their intended quarry in their cars , communicating with each other on CB-radio ( Observer , 2 June 1985 ) . |
| 30 | The veneered desk where they sat was suddenly drenched in light as the languid television crews jumped up and took their positions , communicating with each other by harsh whispers or frantic sign language . |