Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In a tokamak an external transformer winding induces a current in the plasma , and that current creates the poloidal field . |
| 7 | That would be the natural way in for any stranger wanting to attend a service . |
| 8 | When was American aid going to show a return ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | , 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That priest trying to take a curse off that I 've heard a lot of excuses , half are bloody mad . |
| 13 | He 'll be like an old boxer trying to make a comeback . |
| 14 | And the boxer hoping to wrest a world title from Scotland . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And I 'm sitting watching the telly trying to watch a film . |
| 17 | ‘ Movie actress trying to grab a lot of news space . ’ |
| 18 | Breach of this provision would normally lead to expulsion , if only to pre-empt the possibility of a creditor seeking to have a receiver appointed . |
| 19 | Their unfailing good humour and propensity to reassure those in their care are a welcome support to the tired GP seeking to admit a patient at 3 am ! |
| 20 | For a Chancellor looking to fill a £12 billion hole in the national accounts next year — further increases in duty on whisky now look plain irresponsible . |
| 21 | How would you feel if I told you there was a girl going to have a child of mine — some other girl , some stranger ? |
| 22 | Coleby turned slowly to face him , like a liner manoeuvring to ram a tugboat . |
| 23 | In the case of the poll tax , unpopularity has led to its withdrawal having induced a change in premiership . |
| 24 | Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards Hodge described the political unrest as worsening with the anti-trusteeship campaign having become a campaign against the Joint Commission , the Soviet Union and the United States . |
| 26 | King : Then stand not so , dear Wapping , when you speak , All stiff and formal as you were a judge Preparing to send a murderer to the scaffold . |
| 27 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |
| 28 | If you see your small child trying to hurt a playmate , pull her away firmly without slapping and find something else to interest her . |
| 29 | In earlier examples , the boy trying to solve a design problem and the girl trying to spell a particular sound , the children turned to others for support because their tasks gave rise to questions which needed talking through . |
| 30 | Some excellent work trying to synthesise a number of the current research themes is currently being carried out by Marianne Broadbent and colleagues in Australia [ Broadbent ( 1988 ) ] ; see also Broadbent & Koenig ( 1988a ) ; Broadbent & Koenig ( 1988b ) . |