Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | easy as riding a bike or walking the sea . |
| 2 | * Use the present tense for describing the content of a text or narrating the story . |
| 3 | Similarly , early reproduction may impair survival or future fertility , by consuming resources , causing somatic damage or exposing the organism to environmental injury : there is a ‘ cost of reproduction ’ . |
| 4 | Article 1 sets out its purpose , viz. ‘ to ensure the continuation of farming thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In order to ensure the continuation of farming , thereby maintaining a minimum population level or conserving the countryside in certain less-favoured areas the list of which is … ’ |
| 6 | That seat in there , does that fit facing the driver or facing the front of the passenger rear ? |
| 7 | The other element related to control of the mind where through meditation or chanting the practitioner seeks to free his soul from the bondage of his mind and body and to prepare himself for spiritual enlightenment or true self-realisation — that he is in fact part of the ‘ Impersonal Absolute ’ ( Brahman ) . |
| 8 | The Government could only be brought down if sufficient Conservatives were prepared to vote with Labour and Liberal MPs to defeat it in the House of Commons , forcing a new election or opening the way to a reconstituted anti-fascist National Government . |
| 9 | Moran was either mowing a new field or tossing the field ahead of them with the tedder but he joined the band of girls under the shade of one of the big beeches when Rose came with the basket and can . |
| 10 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 11 | It was n't that I was doubting my faith or denying the reality of my becoming a Christian , but rather that , though I had genuinely believed ten years earlier , my commitment had been intertwined with the emotional comfort of sharing the beliefs and way of life of my family and certain friends . |
| 12 | Adding the complexity or letting the complexity be in silicone , which is very inexpensive and readily controlled and so on . |
| 13 | Using a wedding bouquet as an example , and assuming that you are either attending the function or collecting the bouquet afterwards , you should make up a simple box , such as the one shown in the photograph . |
| 14 | The fact is that men do n't like childbirth much , because , unlike fixing the car or mowing the lawn , or even loading the dishwasher , there is no pivotal , directional role for us to take . |
| 15 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 16 | After two pages , he would find himself , without quite knowing why or how he got there , making a cup of tea or watching the television . |
| 17 | It is ideal for those aspects of therapy which do not need to entail regression : giving up smoking , losing weight or training the memory , for example . |
| 18 | CHECK : an attack on the opponent 's king that must be met immediately either by moving the king , capturing the threatening enemy piece or protecting the king with a piece or pawn . |
| 19 | No breakdown of the figure was ever supplied , let alone actually attending the stocktake or checking the valuation . |
| 20 | 1794 Fencing & Enclosing the Churchyard of Kilnaughton. " having seen two Estimates … they disapprove of the sd. estimates , as they think the work may be Executed in a much easier and cheaper manner , especially as the gentlemen from the Parish of Kildaltan undertake that the Tennants will lead the stones . |
| 21 | But earning a living or having the money to be able to continue studying is , I know , just one area of concern for your readers . |
| 22 | The study classified adjustments as modifying the cause , modifying the loss or distributing the loss and established that while flood control expenditures had multiplied the level of flood damages had risen , and that the natural purpose of reducing the toll of flood losses by building flood control projects had not been achieved ( White , 1973 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ If the wholesale destruction of Youth be considered a saner method for world betterment than training the Boy , ’ he added as the bitterness showed through , ‘ then the club movement will not press its claim . ’ |
| 24 | Let us consider just two of them : ( 1 ) Is it true that the word ‘ here ’ is an exception to the rule that knowing the meaning of a word means knowing what is meant by it , that is , knowing something which we call by that word ? and ( 2 ) Supposing that the word ‘ here ’ can be used meaningfully without our knowing something which we call ‘ here ’ , are Russell and McTaggart right in their assumption that the word ‘ I ’ is not like ‘ here ’ in this respect ? |
| 25 | This leads to the second stage of the argument , to the effect that disobeying the law undermines its authority , and is therefore contrary to the obligation to support just institutions . |
| 26 | He looked like a man with nothing more on this mind than reaching the bar on the far side of the room — and yet she could feel a tension in the muscle of his arm , see it in the set of his mouth . |
| 27 | It 's er the wedding that causing the problem is n't it ? |
| 28 | I said from the outset that , in the eyes of the TCCB , the MCC and the International Cricket Council , the gouging of a cricket ball is a lesser crime than rocking the boat . |
| 29 | But first I shall be consulting my solicitors , the League Managers ' Association and suing the club for unfair dismissal , without a shadow of doubt . |
| 30 | It was thus found that the majority of the reaction time required was in identifying the values of the card and choosing the pile onto which it should be placed . |