Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Just as unlikely as eating part of a dieffenbachia leaf . ) |
| 2 | When accepting settlement of a bill by credit card the cashier should : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A Raman spectrum is normally excited using light of a frequency that is not absorbed by the sample . |
| 5 | Manufacturers generally supply information about the torque producing capability of a stepping motor in the form of a graph — known as the static torque/rotor position characteristic — showing the torque developed by the motor as a function of rotor position for several values of winding current . |
| 6 | GERARD DEPARDIEU is the giant , shambling bear of a man who has seemingly singlehandedly breathed fresh life into the French film industry . |
| 7 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
| 8 | Today we are becoming part of a family . |
| 9 | Some children moved out of specialist provision into playgroups ( full or part time ) and made considerable strides in social relationships , becoming part of a community and friendship network which continued into their schooldays , whether or not they went to special school at 5 years . |
| 10 | No longer do we take it for granted as meaning that we get a job in a company , or an industry , with the hope and intention of learning new skills , gaining experience and becoming part of an enterprise , in turn passing on skills and giving others the benefit of our experience . |
| 11 | It was suggested that the DG method failed to represent the thematic organisation of the concordances analysed , as the categories that might have been chosen on an ’ intuitive ’ basis do not seem to attract any of the 500 most frequently appearing words of a test item . |
| 12 | ‘ I am constantly painting , scrubbing out and reworking areas of a picture and often marvellous unexpected results will emerge ’ explained Mick Rooney when Julian Halsby asked him about his working methods in this special interview for The Artist |
| 13 | I am constantly painting , scrubbing out and reworking areas of a picture and often marvellous unexpected results will emerge . |
| 14 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 15 | Downing Street is a sure stepping-stone to becoming head of a department but the price that has to be paid is as exacting a life-style as can be found in Whitehall . |
| 16 | After gaining control of a company , BTR would sell off unwanted divisions and then significantly improve the performance of those remaining . |
| 17 | Ken Schofield , executive director of the European tour , said in announcing details of a circuit that runs from mid-January to November and includes tournaments in Dubai , Singapore and Morocco : ‘ Our overall target is £24.75m , an increase of 12.5% . |
| 18 | The author 's stated intentions and blurb credentials — Guardian writer , PhD , founding member of a community centre for the unemployed in the northeast of England — could well influence the reading of Meridon , but at heart we have a popular blockbuster that breathes some life into its 18th-century setting , but whose worthy aims are submerged by the relentless conventions of a mass-market formula . |
| 19 | The blue sea and bright sun belied the occasional grim reminder of the other side of the picture ; the broken , rusting hull of a merchantman or trawler , perched high and dry in a rocky grave . |
| 20 | Millions of viewers saw the vicious and disbelieving interrogation of a woman who went to the police saying she had been raped . |
| 21 | INFLATION last month rose to 7.6 per cent , reversing a recent ebbing of inflationary pressures and ending hopes of a decline by the end of this year . |
| 22 | The resolving power of a microscope depends not only on the wavelength of the light but also inversely on the aperture of the instrument . |
| 23 | He limped over to Grimma , catching hold of a thorn twig to steady himself . |
| 24 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |
| 25 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
| 26 | In the case of premises forming part of a shopping centre a similar expansion is recommended . |
| 27 | It is now a grand little farmhouse forming part of a courtyard together with its outbuildings and set against the prevailing wind from the northwest . |
| 28 | This clause makes clear that we will not pay for the cost of replacing any undamaged item or parts of items forming part of a set or suite when damage occurs within a clearly identifiable area or to a specific part . |
| 29 | These are sets of merchandise which can be collected through a series of purchases , e.g. picture cards , chinaware , glassware , etc. , forming part of a set . |
| 30 | Buildings in good condition in villages or forming part of a farm complex should be much cheaper to convert than a ruin miles from the nearest mains water and electricity — although even these sell . |