Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main advantage of using acrylic like a watercolour is that once it is applied , it dries to be water-resistant . |
| 2 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 3 | The study will examine various organisational forms of collaboration using aerospace as a case study . |
| 4 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 5 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 6 | ( Just as unlikely as eating part of a dieffenbachia leaf . ) |
| 7 | When accepting settlement of a bill by credit card the cashier should : |
| 8 | There may also be more room for professional bodies to discipline those whose conduct has not come up to expected standards but where proving dishonesty in a court would be hard . |
| 9 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 10 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 11 | Not only doing unnecessary jobs , but actually creating work by transferring cooked food out of saucepans into dishes before serving it , decanting milk into a jug and margarine on to a saucer . |
| 12 | Now the consequences of seeing prayer as a hallway and as a telephone are momentous . |
| 13 | Real interest in the tradition was actually waning ; during the 1820s great difficulty was experienced in procuring money for a bull and the last Christmas run occurred in 1831 . |
| 14 | You 're demanding money without a reason . |
| 15 | Kevin , from Lymington , also beached flounder to 1 lb 12 oz using ragworm on a size 2 hook to 15 lb line . |
| 16 | However , one problem with using recognition as a method of assessing memory is that although it gives good overall measures of performance it does not make it clear exactly which details of a stimulus were remembered . |
| 17 | Using research as a basis , the Barnes and Maple monograph analyses the importance of sex stereotypes in the development and maintenance of mental illness . |
| 18 | In addition , some bacteria and all green plants have evolved ways of using light as a source of energy . |
| 19 | A Raman spectrum is normally excited using light of a frequency that is not absorbed by the sample . |
| 20 | I am not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate about the underfunding of sport , but if sport is using underfunding as an excuse or justification for taking large amounts of money from the tobacco industry , the Government must address the question whether they should put more money into sport so that sport does not have to use that excuse . |
| 21 | Dr Focos is currently Fulbright Fellow in Sweden , and is completing research for a book on Zorn . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Canada and Australia account for about another 10 per cent , producing cobalt as a by-product of nickel . |
| 24 | GERARD DEPARDIEU is the giant , shambling bear of a man who has seemingly singlehandedly breathed fresh life into the French film industry . |
| 25 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 26 | Sigmund Sternberg , as chairman of the International Council of Christians and Jews , considers that : Many recent religious revivals experienced in particular by Jewish , Christian and Muslim communities … have assumed frightening forms of intolerance , exclusiveness , racism and fanaticism as well as nationalism , using religion as a weapon in defence of particular causes . |
| 27 | It will be backwards-compatible with the Win32 application programming interface and interoperable with Sybase SQL Server 4.2 for OS/2 and offer multiprocessing support plus an SNA server gateway . |
| 28 | This morning , Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is expected to cave in to City pressure , and commit the Government to contributing money to an insurance pool to cover commercial property against terrorist attack . |
| 29 | Now we should have a look at further aspects of avian anatomy and keeping terminology to a minimum . |
| 30 | Theresa was excited by the news and told Maureen that she had sent Eileen two tablets of scented soap and a box of dusting powder with a swansdown puff . |