Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say voluntary bodies are very nervous about that , because they have difficulty contracting to provide a service when they are totally dependent on unpaid volunteers , and therefore there is reluctance on their part to , to enter into contracts that bind them to provide something where they are uncertain about their ability to do it . |
| 2 | Families of servicemen returning found a system not geared up to help . |
| 3 | Very often a simple committee decision resolving to serve a Repairs Notice , or even resolving to consider serving a Repairs Notice , is enough to prompt the owner to sell . |
| 4 | Johnny Miller is one of a handful of cricket fanzines struggling to find a readership on the fringe of the mainstream of cricket consciousness . |
| 5 | For example , a term prohibiting making a back-up copy in a pre-1993 agreement will not be made invalid by reason of the changes brought about by the regulations even if the making of a back-up copy is deemed to be necessary to the lawful use of the program . |
| 6 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 7 | They are well-endowed with pockets : two zipped at the back ( giving double thickness to the seat ) , one of which has a side opening to take a map but too narrow for an OS map . |
| 8 | In a tokamak an external transformer winding induces a current in the plasma , and that current creates the poloidal field . |
| 9 | That would be the natural way in for any stranger wanting to attend a service . |
| 10 | With Crosby looking to offload a number of his professionals before the deadline the players have an ideal opportunity to impress potential buyers . |
| 11 | Parties seeking to rule a country should be accountable to all the people of the country . |
| 12 | Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue . |
| 13 | I was born a Catholic and I ’ m going to die a Catholic . |
| 14 | When was American aid going to show a return ? |
| 15 | This Friday coming got a reason ? |
| 16 | If impressing less as a ‘ big ’ personality she nevertheless has a vivid way of making the developments real and present : for example , at the start of the Act 2 solo , ‘ que viens-je d'entendre ? ’ , she conveys , still more than Baker , the sense of the overheard talk having happened a minute or two before . |
| 17 | , who joined us in May as national account manager , has also gained extensive experience in the food industry having spent a number of years working in technical and commercial roles with leading UK food and flavour manufacturers — being one of them . |
| 18 | Instead of assessing the feasibility of words combining to form a sentence and providing a syntactic representation for the result , a word grammar determines the feasibility of morphemes combining to create a word . |
| 19 | There are cases , however , in which the trustee is not addressed with a request , or in which no words purporting to constitute a trust are used at all . |
| 20 | It was a statement that summoned up some private vision they had of her , the simple words swelling to become a vehicle for all their feelings about her . |
| 21 | Kieman , Reid and Jones ( 1982 ) , in a survey of special schools using some form of signing , claim 34 per cent of schools responding have a PGSS programme and 33 per cent of children had some PGSS in their education . |
| 22 | The films are always set against glamorous backgrounds , with Matthews offering herself for audience identification as the outsider trying to enter a world that seeks to exclude her . |
| 23 | That priest trying to take a curse off that I 've heard a lot of excuses , half are bloody mad . |
| 24 | This year an advert in the local ‘ What 's On ’ magazine Venue brought forward a flood of graphic designers volunteering to design a leaflet and posters for the Film Week . |
| 25 | EAST Anglians hoping to catch a glimpse of the biggest fly-past for 40 years were left disappointed yesterday as rain and cloud conspired stopped the 149-aircraft spectacular from getting off the ground . |
| 26 | He 'll be like an old boxer trying to make a comeback . |
| 27 | And the boxer hoping to wrest a world title from Scotland . |
| 28 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 29 | The story of the American expatriate who shipped over his water-bed and then had to spend months trying to find a landlord who would allow him to bring it into his property is a good example . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the crop-haired young man picked up by the police turned out to be a journalist trying to infiltrate a skinhead gang for a story . |