Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others were men of ‘ petit état ’ who , out of daring or a wish to commit pillage , took to this way of life . |
| 2 | At stairwells or where glazing or a doorway extends to ceiling height , it may be necessary to terminate the cove at either side . |
| 3 | Duress invalidating consent to a contract is regarded as occurring where a party has been imprisoned or threatened with , for example , imprisonment , or violence , or harm to reputation , or criminal prosecution of a spouse . |
| 4 | After a period of time , silence on the part of a third party ( the most likely response ) could estop it from denying that a novation had occurred . |
| 5 | On 17 December , its officials woke to radio bulletins announcing that a bill to ban all remaining forms of tobacco advertising had , in the small hours , finally passed through both houses of the federal parliament with the support of all parties . |
| 6 | The cost of checking that a loss has been reported to the Police , Hotel or Courier and the time taken to do so must affect the decision to carry out an investigation . |
| 7 | Once seated the audience would see the theatre ceiling as though it were open to the sky at night ; stars twinkling and a moon shining . |
| 8 | Ehrlichman and Weinberger criticise the emphasis that has been placed on the first eye movements occurring after a question has been asked and the consequent ignoring of movements which occur prior to or during presentation of a particular item . |
| 9 | However , problems arise as soon as you start to think about what is actually happening when a tippe-top flips over . |
| 10 | The burden of proving that a clause satisfies the reasonableness test is on the party who seeks to rely on the clause . |
| 11 | Proving that a contravention has occurred , even if only on the balance of probabilities , will not be easy , nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention . |
| 12 | Notice that this condition says nothing about the possibility of proving that a topic referred to on a given occasion is the same as the topic referred to on a different occasion . |
| 13 | Notwithstanding Roh 's efforts at damage limitation , however , the opposition attempted to exploit the government 's vulnerability by suggesting that a cover-up had been perpetrated in order to minimize the government 's involvement in the Suso scandal . |
| 14 | Last week The Northern Echo disclosed details of a document suggesting that a company run by TEC chairman Les Bell was hoping to pay a school leaver £29.50 for a 50 hour week . |
| 15 | Macmillan played on Kennedy 's political instincts by suggesting that a failure to honour Eisenhower 's Polaris pledge could sink the Macmillan Government and lead to the election of an anti-American alternative , either Conservative or Labour — anti-Americanism not being confined to one party . |
| 16 | We have identified difficulties which may be encountered in realising that a problem has a legal dimension and in connecting that problem to the sort of work with which lawyers are commonly understood to deal . |
| 17 | Richards suggests that ‘ since the Anglican Church in Wales was disestablished in 1919 , it is not fitting that a name associated with church organisation should be linked to a secular unit of local administration ( Richards 1983:39 ) . |
| 18 | It is worth remembering that a sparrow has more vertebrae in its neck than a giraffe . |
| 19 | BROADCASTERS are warning that a deal struck between the BBC , the Musicians ' Union and the actors ' union , Equity , on the sale of video-recordings of TV programme mean an end to the release of minority interest programmes , like science documentaries , on video-tape or disc . |
| 20 | The noun ‘ dependent ’ is an ugly label , implying that a person exists only in relation to another person . |
| 21 | Inasmuch as the media does reproduce such accounts it sustains the status quo , since ‘ the problem ’ is said to lie within the individual and not wider social processes , implying that a solution comes through changes in the individual rather than in society . |
| 22 | He approached me across the marbled swirl of shag carpet , looking like a prelate pumped up with helium , and solemnly intoned , ‘ Now , lad , cup your hands , here comes the anti-chocolate . ’ |
| 23 | He says it leaves the shop looking like a bomb has hit . |
| 24 | A dog looking like a fox walks along in front of a series of screens made from reeds . |
| 25 | ‘ Jock ’ Hilton Barber was not flying on this date , and saw what happened from the ground : ‘ I was swimming when a battle started overhead . |
| 26 | He says that he was operating when a bullet wizzed in through the window and hit the surgeon next to him . |
| 27 | but still he fought , kicking and struggling until a blow blotted out the world ... |
| 28 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 29 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 30 | How do social workers go about investigating these complaints , and what leads them towards deciding that a child has been abused ? |