Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over fifty small burghs were granted privileges for buying and selling specific goods , making and selling cloth , or acquiring a monopoly in other crafts . |
| 2 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 3 | But tourists who want value for money should avoid buying a postcard in Bahrain or hiring a deckchair in Japan . |
| 4 | It signals the transformation of the large , lucid Great Sinner into the man who is beyond definition and self-definition , beyond calling himself bored , and whose actions — whether he is biting an ear or enduring a punch in the face or hanging by a well-soaped rope — explain nothing and nobody . |
| 5 | ASSAULTING OR OBSTRUCTING A CONSTABLE IN THE EXECUTION OF HIS DUTY |
| 6 | A number of countries are either in recession or experiencing a slow-down in activity . |
| 7 | Heartwatch gives a specific assessment of the probability of developing heart disease or suffering a stroke in later life . |
| 8 | It also means , as we have seen , following the conventions of the discipline , whether it be conducting experiments and assessing the results , or engaging in a case study in management studies , or constructing a model in studio-based work . |
| 9 | adding or dropping a module in a particular subject area ; |
| 10 | In earlier times the judge would rule on the sufficiency of the provocation , and the result of this was rather narrow and legalistic categories of sufficiency ( e.g. violence or finding a spouse in adultery were enough , but words or a confession of adultery were not ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I think a wife 's place is by your side , whether it 's in the kitchen or making a programme in some remote corner of the globe , ’ said Keith , who is planning to do Floyd on the Far East next year . |
| 12 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 13 | The provision relates , however , only to the beginning of development and this apparently includes digging a trench or putting a peg in the ground . |
| 14 | An example would be a person or company resident in the UK either making a deposit or receiving a loan in sterling to or from a UK bank . |
| 15 | Even on a crossed telephone line , listening at random to shortwave radio messages , or casting a note in a bottle on to the waves , humans always form some hypothesis about the sender or receiver . |
| 16 | It consists , essentially , of wilfully assaulting , ill-treating , neglecting , abandoning , or exposing a child in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) On granting or transferring a licence in respect of any premises , a licensing board may , if the applicant so requests and if the board is satisfied that the requirements of the area for which the board is constituted make it desirable , insert in the licence a condition that , during such part or parts of the year as may be specified in the condition ( being a part which is not longer , or parts which taken together are not longer , than 180 days ) . |
| 18 | Yet Community law equally applies when a UK company is seeking a listing in the UK , or contemplating a takeover in the UK , or considering a joint venture or distributorship in the UK . |
| 19 | Housmans considers that building a property in Portugal is in many cases cheaper than buying one . |
| 20 | Keeping him in quarantine is much wiser than producing a situation in which you might put Iran back in control of the Gulf , after eight years in which the whole of the outside world , including the Soviet Union and the US , built up this great military monster in Iraq , in order to prevent Iran from running the Gulf . |
| 21 | An AXA executive confirms that the French insurer wants to invest in UNI , pointing out that gaining a foothold in Scandinavia would be in line with AXA 's strategic aim of becoming a global insurer . |
| 22 | It has been held that keeping a motor-car in a garage with petrol in the tank , and a motor-coach in a parking ground after the tank has been emptied is a non-natural use of land , but the decisions have been criticised . |
| 23 | FIRST-TIME travellers to America should be aware that ordering a meal in the Land of the Free is an art form in itself , given the copious choice . |
| 24 | British Telecom says that selling a service in which the equipment is in the company 's own offices stands a better chance of success . |
| 25 | It 's better than getting a locum in — they cost the earth and sometimes do more harm than good . |
| 26 | ‘ And there 'd be nothing easier than popping a cheque in the post to them , or sending them some cast-off woollies , or ladling some soup into them , or offering them advice . |
| 27 | Since positioning of a character on a video terminal screen is rather more difficult than punching a hole in a specified column of a card , and because today 's computer users are accustomed to ‘ free-format ’ input ( in which data elements are not defined by their position on an input record but are separated by commas or spaces ) , the input format demanded by SYMAP may seem inflexible and difficult . |
| 28 | It requires us to admit that having a pain in one 's foot is really having a pain ( in the void , so to speak ) , and associating it with one 's foot , such association being in the form , say , of a judgement that there is something the matter with one 's foot . |
| 29 | and have proved that putting a phone in each guest 's room encourages them to keep in touch with their office or home . |
| 30 | There is no more effective means for long term evangelism than preparing a team in relationship with a leader , moving in , and planting a church ! |