Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HANDMADE Lonsdale skipping rope is standard issue for boxers and will dramatically improve fitness and stamina — skipping for ten minutes is equivalent to jogging for half an hour . |
| 2 | In the middle of the night he rose and , after eating about half a jar of honey , felt a lot better . |
| 3 | On April 6 Brightness was lasooed and after struggling for half an hour was ignominiously hauled from the water . |
| 4 | The Salvadorean people are giving a lesson to the whole world , and especially to the North Americans , because even after almost three years of finding ourselves beset by the guerrilla , a total misgovernment by the PDC and a catastrophic foreign intervention , we still have the moral integrity " to continue protecting against such a calamity " , financed and encouraged in part by the leftist sectors which have infiltrated the North American government … |
| 5 | In the event of death occurring in such a case I would accept that it could be an unnatural death . |
| 6 | Dying in such a cause , he was to be numbered amongst Christ 's martyrs , much more worthy of the name of Saint Thomas of Canterbury than he whom the Pope falsely before did canonize . |
| 7 | Dangerous driving is usually reserved for intentional dangerous driving or where it can be proved the defendant was driving in such a way as to fall within the new definition of ‘ driving dangerously ’ in section 2A ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 8 | It was with the aim of contributing to such an improvement , as the representative body of employers and business investors , that the 1988 Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) Task Force on business and urban regeneration came to three conclusions : first ( in line with the Government 's own beliefs ) , that business must take the lead in reversing urban decline ; second , that charity — governmental or voluntary — can not in itself deal with problems , and any regeneration must spring from private investment , commercially motivated ; and third , that the potential exists for such investment , provided that early projects are seen to succeed ( CBI , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | No German records relating to such a formation have so far been found , but it is possible that they were aircraft of III/ZG 26 . |
| 10 | Moreover , in an appeal to the High Court relating to such an order , the principle to be adopted is that set out by Lord Lane C.J. in Reg. v. Tottenham Justices , Ex parte Dwarkados Joshi [ 1982 ] 1 W.L.R. 631 . |
| 11 | This country is not prepared to accept the gospel of despair in mass unemployment , which is returning on such a scale today . |
| 12 | A person 's real self-interest would lie in his not keeping to such an agreement , while others did . |
| 13 | ‘ But , dear David , ’ she said pitifully , ‘ you ca n't want us interfering at such a moment . |
| 14 | At the base of the chamber is a half channel , often consisting of half a piece of drain pipe with half channels coming in from branch drains . |
| 15 | All that is needed in addition is a centre for image-processing and interpretation , costing about million a year . |
| 16 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 17 | There is a slowly burgeoning market for this type of entertainment , with many music and arts societies looking for such a programme . |
| 18 | Einstein spent the later years of his life looking for such a theory . |
| 19 | Staff were split into quality teams , meeting for half an hour each week , with team leaders meeting weekly , also for half an hour , to discuss suggestions raised by staff . |
| 20 | Are these projectural figures which he showed us the cash flow chart over there looking like half a pyramid ? |
| 21 | All the time Tabitha was listening with half an ear to the deep , slow throb of the engines , the background buzzes and creaks of the Alice Liddell in transit . |
| 22 | The popular habit of listening with half an ear to a radio during study is a deliberate division of attention . |
| 23 | Athelstan , now listening with half an ear to Sir John 's recitation , looked out of the window and wondered what had happened to Benedicta and Lady Maude . |
| 24 | Listening with half an ear as she examined the cluster of bottles on the draining-board , she caught the names of several authors and concluded that they were discussing contemporary novelists . |
| 25 | We have found that volunteers have no difficulty in living in such a unit , either alone or in groups of up to four . |
| 26 | Nor would there be any point in living in such a village unless one were largely prepared to conform to its public mores since otherwise one could not be within the community in any real sense . |
| 27 | Living in such a house would nonetheless have exposed Leapor to a more leisured way of life than she had known before , though as a servant her enjoyments would have been circumscribed . |
| 28 | Even this underestimates the numbers of children who will , at some time in their lives , experience living in such a family situation . |
| 29 | The barn was big and roomy , and they had always been able to play the noisiest games in it without fear of disturbing or upsetting anyone , for there was nobody living within half a mile of it . |
| 30 | The other main formulation is the rule of acting in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end . |