Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A COW plummeted 10ft on to a car bonnet yesterday after leaping a guard rail while escaping from an auction . |
| 2 | The SNP is also launching a recruitment drive but its attacks on Labour seem likely to cause most controversy . |
| 3 | There was talk of India soon becoming a grain exporter and she discontinued PL480 shipments in 1971 because of shortage of storage capacity . |
| 4 | Some councillors said Richmond was becoming a ghost town and echoed his belief that the store would revitalise trade and bring back locals who shop in Northallerton or Darlington . |
| 5 | He moved to London , becoming a law clerk and then confidential man of business to Sir Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | • Lake Windermere in Cumbria is becoming a health hazard because of raw sewage and litter , experts have warned . |
| 7 | Nevertheless she has conquered the tough , ruthless climb to becoming a star actor and all the insecurities that go with it . |
| 8 | For 10 years he was the principal of the school in Spain , before becoming a merchant banker and financial consultant . |
| 9 | The track 's existence came under threat — there was talk of it becoming a gravel pit and it was , after all , a prime industrial area — but in 1982 tobacco giant Gallagher purchased the site and handed the important sections over to the Brooklands Museum Trust , erecting its new headquarters building where it would create least damage . |
| 10 | Mr R. Mardle for painting a museum sign and helping with the interim layout ; |
| 11 | But bit by bit , Wilson became aware that she had some small skill in the matter of keeping a boarding house and that her future , and her family 's , might indeed lie in that direction . |
| 12 | But he said it could mean duties of managers/owners — such as keeping a hotel plan or ensuring staff are trained to use the fire fighting equipment — implicit in UK laws — would have to be spelt out . |
| 13 | It can now be the difference between keeping a market share or losing it . |
| 14 | Whether documenting a war atrocity or capturing the beauty of a Japanese garden , his photographs always retained that special ingredient — sensitivity |
| 15 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 16 | Predators are usually nervous of attacking venomous species and this stick insect attempts to startle its assailants by adopting a scorpion posture when approached closely . |
| 17 | There 's there 's one , I think that 's gon na need clarifying , and that 's that this course is n't about presenting , er , it it maybe about adopting a selling approach but it 's not about presentation skills . |
| 18 | The argument developed in this chapter is that teachers can ill afford to take this blinkered attitude towards LMS , even if in doing so they appear to be adopting a coping strategy that enables them to focus on those aspects of their work that they see as most important . |
| 19 | Opening a polythene bag or a can is the most we manage to do . |
| 20 | As you can see , it is n't just a case of opening a wicker basket and saying ‘ shoo , like releasing racing pigeons : you have to find the owls a home . |
| 21 | Being able to capitalize part of her pension would allow her to present herself at one of the main building societies with a deposit , to halve her housing costs , and begin acquiring a capital asset that would last with her into old age . |
| 22 | In the same sale , Christian Boltanski 's ‘ Autel Chases ’ ( lot 198 , est. $50–70,000 ) sold for $75,000 ( £41,700 ) ; ‘ Fill ’ , an important lead figure sculpture by Antony Gormley ( lot 148 , est. $30–40,000 ) fetched $48,000 ( £26,700 ) ; and Bill Woodrow 's ‘ Switch ’ ( lot 220 , est. $8–12,000 ) , an exciting construction incorporating a car bonnet and a toy horse and consigned by Elaine Dannheisser , was sold for $15,000 ( £8,300 ) . |
| 23 | If a band delayed signing a publishing contract until the singles from their album had obtained some success , it was because they believed , not unreasonably , that they could negotiate a better contract by demonstrating their chart success to a publisher . |
| 24 | Sun Microsystems Inc revealed its first foreign equity investment last week , signing a technology licensing and joint development agreement with Russian wireless communications experts Elvis+ Ltd ( UX No 426 ) . |
| 25 | The NCOAP began by pressing a universalist demand but was eventually forced to accept a compromise which , although in line with working-class notions of respectability , did not reflect the absolute material wants of the many . |
| 26 | He filtered on to the dual carriageway , overtaking a haulage truck and a couple of slow-moving cars , always going back to the nearside lane . |
| 27 | In GLCABS two senior advice workers , specially trained in selection processes , will interview the candidate , one representing an outer-London bureau and one an inner-London bureau . |
| 28 | Even so , he did his best , becoming an expert coxswain and taking up Olympic weight-lifting . |
| 29 | Furthermore , a major change of trade or business also encompasses a trading company becoming an investment company or vice versa and , in the case of an investment company , it includes a major change in the nature of its investments ( s 245(4) ) . |
| 30 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |