Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This methodological study investigates the relative strengths and weaknesses of panel and cross-sectional approaches to the measurement of attitude data , using as a vehicle the British Social Attitudes Survey . |
| 2 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 3 | Work out how you would do the entry procession using as a guide the accompanying paper . |
| 4 | Indeed , in using as an example the books of Joyce Porter featuring the gross , lazy and self-indulgent Inspector Dover we have already touched on this difficult combination of crime ( which is , after all , a serious matter almost all of the time ) and farce , and these two types of book are , of course , closely linked . |
| 5 | Lavandera illustrates this point , using as an example the tendency for cocoliche speakers to avoid indirect speech , which in certain types of Spanish clause is an obligatory environment for the subjunctive . |
| 6 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 7 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 8 | Adopting as a precedent the order made by this Board in Baksh v. The Queen [ 1958 ] A.C. 167 , 172 , their Lordships consider that this is a case in which the right course is to rely for that purpose on the judicial discretion and experience of the court in Jamaica . |
| 9 | The nearest he had ever approached to any hint of levity was when he had stopped frowning for an instant the day that news had reached him of the death of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in Rome . |
| 10 | Moreover , in acting as a teacher the librarian was offering structured and directed courses with declared objectives , and frequently with examined results . |
| 11 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 12 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 13 | It 's not a case of believing for a miracle every day , but it 's a case of having faith and trust in the Christ of the miracle . |
| 14 | Sixty-Nine Ninety-five with Range of Attachments for Round-the-House Cleanliness , ’ he added , remembering with a sigh the familiar signs . |
| 15 | The outcome may thus be seen as a situation in which there is considerable trade-union militancy with respect to wages , hours of work and related issues , but relatively little expression of class consciousness in the broader sense of any profound awareness or conviction of living in a society the nature of which is predominantly determined by class relations , and of being engaged in a continuing struggle to establish an alternative form of society . |
| 16 | The House of Lords held that the minister could only intervene if there were reasonable grounds , namely that the education authority was acting in a way no other education authority would act . |
| 17 | Peat-based products that are not from SSSIs will continue to be stocked , but according to a spokeswoman the move is a part of an overall shift away from peat to substitutes . |
| 18 | According to a report the next day on Soviet television a powerful home-made bomb had been placed in a carriage of the train , which was travelling from Georgia to Moscow . |
| 19 | According to an insider the cuts were made ‘ to satisfy calls from Novell to get costs down , ’ before the acquisition is complete . |
| 20 | She was picking at a leaf-taking the green out to leave a filigree of veins . |
| 21 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 22 | Likewise , for those caring for an adult the scheme would have to be built on an adequate system of disability benefits . |
| 23 | ( He quotes this figure as " empirically estimated " , citing as a reference a paper presented at a conference by one R. Milner . |
| 24 | Coveney argues that evidence for viewing such examples as alternants might be adduced from the linguistic behaviour of speakers , citing as an example the following incident where he heard a Frenchwoman asking a younger man the following question , using an [ SVQ ] variant : ‘ Tu es d'où ? ’ |
| 25 | In 1887 Lyons ran a stall at the Liverpool exhibition , selling for a shilling a combined microscope-binocular-compass which he had invented . |
| 26 | As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog . |
| 27 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 28 | Another suggestion was that the electrolysis caused the liquid level to drop as more of the liquid turned into gas ; this exposed the top of the palladium above the liquid surface and gas began to leak out , releasing in a rush the considerable energy that had been stored with the trapped deuterium , sending the temperature up above the melting point ( 1554 degrees Celsius ) or even boiling at 3000 degrees . |
| 29 | Then , on Sunday evening , the pilot 's employers telephoned to say their pilot had fully recovered and was going on a course the next day in London . |
| 30 | As I stepped past them Iain had his glasses on and was peering at a diagram the engineer had roughed out in his notepad . |