Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , annual sales forecasting for a manufacturing activity undertaking a wide variety of large complex engineering work on a unit and small batch basis may be carried out using a combination of queuing , scheduling and inventory based methods . |
| 2 | And with two TV networks now competing for a UK cable channel , a similar service is set to take off here by the year 's end . |
| 3 | Naturally it results in acrobatics , with Frank driving through a tent — in which two people are sleeping — and speeding through a hay loft , leaping fifty feet through the air , crashing into a pond , then driving out of the water after being submerged . |
| 4 | I was thrilled , of course , but this was tempered somewhat by the knowledge that my mother was standing in full view , three feet away , leafing through a pattern book . |
| 5 | Allowing for a 12% margin of error , that gave him something between eleven and thirteen hundred miles of flight at his present subsonic speed . |
| 6 | Billy Arjan Singh ( see page 47 ) , one of India 's leading conservationists and tiger authorities , estimates that , allowing for a breeding life of fifteen years , a wild tigress only rears from five to seven and a half cubs . |
| 7 | Mosley undoubtedly had admirers in important social positions , including for a period Lord Rothermere , and had access to a wide range of the politically influential . |
| 8 | Precisely who it was she was using for a role model became clear as a middle-aged lady , admirably slim in well-cut jodhpurs , erupted from some inner fortress to enquire , in tones that carried effortlessly across the yard , precisely why Caroline had failed to run up her stirrups , how long had she been riding ? |
| 9 | They have a talent for using as a lever planks or anything else that comes to hand . |
| 10 | Once a viewpoint has been selected , the subsequent CATWOE analysis is made easier by first considering the transformation that could be taking place in the selected system , using as a starting point a simple sketch of the conversion process , ie input-transformation-output ( Fig 15. 1 ) . |
| 11 | It is the aim of this study to investigate the determinants of unemployment and the behaviour of wages and prices in interwar Britain , using as a starting point models which have been developed to analyse the current unemployment problem . |
| 12 | The er Britannic that was one of the biggest boats at that time of the day , they 're using as a hospital ship . |
| 13 | So am I am I right in thinking that the western relief road is catering for a north south through traffic element , but its primary purpose is to provide relief to the main e the present A sixty one which runs through the centre of Harrogate and again would seek to distribute traffic around the network and bring it in on other radial roads from the West for example ? |
| 14 | The Forestry Commission believe that as well as catering for a growth sport , building these new routes helps separate bikers from walkers , so helping both to enjoy the forest in peace and safety . |
| 15 | Reportedly it is seeking fellow travellers and financing for a Chorus project lilting code named Amadeus , having already used Wolfgang and Mozart to christen other projects . |
| 16 | Best of all , the chapters ‘ Nursing as a helping relationship ’ and ‘ Burnout and its management in nursing ’ are superb , clearly demonstrating the importance of the interaction of nurses with patients as well as their own colleagues . |
| 17 | In Italy it is often found flavoured with crystallised fruits for eating as a dessert cheese , or it can be used plain for cooking , but mainly for desserts . |
| 18 | I find it rather rich for eating as a table cheese , but a few spoonfuls stirred into hot pasta is delicious . |
| 19 | The results of the study of early Anglo-Saxon pottery have yet hardly come near the commercially based model envisaged by Myres , with specialists producing for a consumer market ; social explanations appear to be more appropriate for similarities between vessels , and their movement . |
| 20 | BASF ( 1990 sales , Dm46.6 billion ) is apparently one of several big German companies queueing for a Wall Street listing . |
| 21 | Instead , he was put into Sydney Pollack 's They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? , in which he played one of the many self-pitying characters struggling through a marathon dance contest . |
| 22 | In one famous passage the hero vents his frustration by masturbating through a paper shoji screen — a sign of contempt for yet another revered symbol of Japanese culture . |
| 23 | He lost , and lost again at a by-election in February 1936 in Ross and Cromarty against Malcolm MacDonald [ q.v. ] , the National Government candidate and dominions secretary — another embarrassment for his father who was then angling for a cabinet post . |
| 24 | Space , however , was limited and Malc and I and the kids had to share one bedroom and keep praying for a council house of our own . |
| 25 | And dying for a drink.The badger falls victim to the drought . |
| 26 | The normally immaculate room was a dirty mess , and pus was oozing through a leg ulceration into a bandage that looked several days old . |
| 27 | He was opening for a rock band and his playing at that time was the best , for me . |
| 28 | ‘ Driving through a locust swarm is a revolting experience ’ he wrote . |
| 29 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 30 | And then she was driving through a heliotrope dusk , a summer evening in deep country lanes , green trunks leopard shadowed , a billion emerald leaves overhead greying as she drove . |