Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The research will examine the adoption of new technology within a local labour market using Sheffield as a case study . |
| 2 | The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant . |
| 3 | Well , one couple are so determined that as many people as possible should at least have the CHANCE to read it that they 're producing copies at a quarter of the official price . |
| 4 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 5 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 6 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 7 | The study will examine various organisational forms of collaboration using aerospace as a case study . |
| 8 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 9 | ( Just as unlikely as eating part of a dieffenbachia leaf . ) |
| 10 | He was eating sweetmeats from a silver dish and , whilst Benjamin and I knelt before him , he kept popping them into his mouth , watching us impassively . |
| 11 | When accepting settlement of a bill by credit card the cashier should : |
| 12 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 13 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 14 | At the regional level , by relating material to demographic and socio-economic statistics and deriving projections as a guide to strategic forward planning . |
| 15 | There is a branch in your local area , reflecting programmes from a satellite . |
| 16 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 17 | The University has recently opened its first child care nursery and is actively pursuing plans for a second . |
| 18 | Not only doing unnecessary jobs , but actually creating work by transferring cooked food out of saucepans into dishes before serving it , decanting milk into a jug and margarine on to a saucer . |
| 19 | But after seeing signs of a pick-up in American demand , he says the hotel industry might get a boost around September , on the basis that recovery here lags America by about four months . |
| 20 | In a letter of that autumn Eliot confessed to using Arnold as a scarecrow — apparently lifeless , but having under his arm a real gun to be fired against the old guard . |
| 21 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 22 | Real interest in the tradition was actually waning ; during the 1820s great difficulty was experienced in procuring money for a bull and the last Christmas run occurred in 1831 . |
| 23 | But it should be clear that while one or two methods may be the most important for attributing coins to a mint or dating them , almost any other consideration can be important , depending on its relevance or on the accidents of survival . |
| 24 | Five months on , seeing Lisa with a plastic eye and seeing how she is , she gets so upset , I would like to have the law changed . |
| 25 | Five months on , seeing Lisa with a plastic eye and seeing how she is , she gets so upset , I 'd really like to have the law changed covering guns . |
| 26 | You 're demanding money without a reason . |
| 27 | Using data for a selection of metropolitan regions , the models will be tested for feasibility , accuracy and sensitivity . |
| 28 | the variance of the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives computed using data for a number of days , that is , ( Anderson , 1985 ; Barnhill , Jordan and Seale , 1987 ; Cornell , 1981 ; Kenyon , Kling , Jordan , Seale and McCabe , 1987 ; Milonas , 1986b ) ; |
| 29 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 30 | Kevin , from Lymington , also beached flounder to 1 lb 12 oz using ragworm on a size 2 hook to 15 lb line . |