Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aquino 's choice was criticized in some quarters for threatening the possibility of splitting her support — between those who would remain loyal to the LDP and those who would support Ramos — and thereby allowing an opposition candidate to win . |
| 2 | DARLINGTON sailor Julie Carroll , 20 , is looking forward to a life on the ocean waves on the type 42 Destroyer HMS Southampton after successfully completing a radar operator course at Portsmouth . |
| 3 | The value to the holder , apart from the intrinsic expertise developed , is only rewarded in some local education authorities where an extra scale point may be offered to an otherwise fully qualified teacher on successfully completing a Diploma course . |
| 4 | Recently , nine members of Windscale Judo Club achieved a higher level in the sport after successfully completing an upgrading contest . |
| 5 | I am slowly becoming a travelling salesman called Pete . |
| 6 | The Israeli Cabinet again endorses Shamir 's " peace plan " , thereby resolving a government crisis provoked by hardline opponents . |
| 7 | The plan is for publishers to donate their unsold magazines , presumably gaining a tax benefit in the process , and these will then be shipped overseas . |
| 8 | Simon suggests , ‘ only using a cheque book for household bills and so on . |
| 9 | Most d-i-yers will probably be less demanding , often only using a heat gun when they have just moved home , or to redecorate a room . |
| 10 | He suggests that their role is to signal rotations of the animal , and to do so using a co-ordinate system that is compatible with the other main organ for signalling rotations of the head , namely the semicircular canals , which are sensitive to angular accelerations . |
| 11 | If you want to keep the existing pipes ( perhaps using a tap adaptor ) , use a bath/basin spanner to disconnect them at the top . |
| 12 | With them could I keep a Red-tailed Shark , Sucking Loach or Longnosed Loach , perhaps using a breeding net ? |
| 13 | Feel free to make up answers , perhaps using a family situation you are familiar with . |
| 14 | Within the Garden , most machines will soon be connected together using a Local Area Network ( LAN ) , to share software , data , and resources such as printers and plotters . |
| 15 | After all , he spoiled the Independent 's early success by foolishly launching a Sunday edition just as recession hit Britain . |
| 16 | The main dissent came from conservative Republicans who saw the compromise as merely disguising an administration capitulation on affirmative action and quotas . |
| 17 | Erm perhaps operating a mail shot at the beginning of the academic year with the er er appropriate educational and other institutions . |
| 18 | Each unit covers a general theme , with sections of specific topics within the theme ( eg writing a job description , interviewing a candidate ) . |
| 19 | For most of those who link computing and boredom , the explanation is that they have to spend many working hours a day behind luminous screens endlessly tapping a plastic typewriter keyboard , after which they are usually fit only to go and goggle at the luminous screen in their living rooms every night . |
| 20 | ‘ So meeting a Bristol City side that have conceded 24 goals away from home this season and have never won at Twerton Park holds no terrors for me or my Rovers lads , who are emerging as one of the best teams in the division . ’ |
| 21 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |
| 22 | After finishing cocktails and going into that gorgeous , lofty , airy dining-room , and especially getting a window table as we were lucky enough to , you have had the best of what they have to offer at the Ritz , considerable as this is . |
| 23 | Ricky put a hand over Daisy 's , a large rough hand with callouses beneath the base of each long finger from endlessly holding a polo stick . |
| 24 | Idly scanning an LP cover Elliott 's eye was caught by two words , ‘ time out ’ , and Time Out it became . |
| 25 | This sequence is repeated again and again with different emphases , suggesting that the novel is constantly reenacting a threshold experience which becomes a powerful metaphor of its own formal nature . |
| 26 | The great thing about only having a licence fee is that you do retain complete editorial control and all the rights . |
| 27 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |
| 28 | Perhaps running a book sale , opening a garden arranging a sponsored ride is more attractive . |
| 29 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 30 | Again , this is not radically different from the attitudes of many parents towards children of higher intelligence , who believe that their children should experience pre-school education , perhaps attending a play school or nursery from the age of three onwards , and then encouraging them to pursue further education at school leaving age . |