Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When transcribing a passage from piano score in which the two hands are spaced far apart , fill in the gap in your arrangement . |
| 2 | Environment was ‘ very worried indeed ’ about Cumbria 's difficulties in tackling a problem of planning and land use . |
| 3 | Researchers believe the vaccine is a major breakthrough in tackling a form of pneumonia , meningitis and septaecemia , caused by the microorganism streptococcus pneumoniae . |
| 4 | ‘ It is rather like tackling a marathon without training or throwing yourself into a game of squash when you are out of condition . |
| 5 | She was twisting a hank of hair between the fingers of her hands , her stained and torn crimson skirts hoiked up over her knees . |
| 6 | ‘ My mummy 's in hospital , ’ she whispered , twisting a lock of hair around her finger . |
| 7 | And ten to twelve we got out the door , oh I was just glad to get out , you know walking a bit of peace and quiet just , I could of strangled him , little git |
| 8 | walking a household of furniture quarter of a mile up the road ? |
| 9 | Two touring laboratories , part of an education programme called Launching a Dream by space agency NASA , are protected with paint supplied by the Courtaulds Aerospace Application Support Centre in Philadelphia . |
| 10 | Church 's is launching a range of leather goods , including luggage , briefcases , belts and handbags , as well as a selection of ties , scarves and socks made from silk , wool , cashmere and mohair . |
| 11 | Mr Berry already had ambitions to expand Blue Arrow 's personnel services on a global basis and in 1987 he discussed with County the possibility of his company 's launching a takeover of Manpower , a US-listed agency . |
| 12 | BRITISH Rail is launching a crackdown on fare dodgers in a bid to save millions of pounds . |
| 13 | Launching a business with redundancy pay carried considerable financial risks , while training would only be of lasting value if there was a real job at the end of it . |
| 14 | British-born Rachel , who now lives in LA , has decorated her California home in English country style ( but more cottage than grand manor ) , at the same time as launching a number of furniture stores which reflect her personal taste . |
| 15 | Gregson hung up and sat back on the bed , cradling a glass of whisky in his hand which he 'd poured himself from the room 's mini-bar . |
| 16 | With this , Smith abandons his nascent journalistic career and scuttles from the room , clothing a sack of fag packs and scrappy scrawl notes . |
| 17 | Their techniques are not unlike ‘ thick description ’ in some respects : setting out accounts for a closely defined topic in an exhaustive manner and assembling a wealth of documentary and statistical evidence to assess an event . |
| 18 | Maria remained motionless , finally beginning to piece the fragments of confession together , assembling a picture of frustration she hardly dared believe she understood . |
| 19 | The first stage is to gather as large a sample of coins as possible by assembling a collection of plaster casts or photographs of specimens in the world 's principal museums , together with other specimens which may have been illustrated in numerous auction catalogues or hoard publications . |
| 20 | Tom Rigg , the warden at Loch Ossian youth hostel , can conjure three stags out of Rannoch Moor by banging a bucket of food at the door . |
| 21 | Indeed , to see them as representing a kind of problem to which some solution might be found is to misunderstand their nature . |
| 22 | More specifically , they arc focused on the home , with self-provisioning ( DIY , gardening and so forth ) representing a sphere of autonomy where they can literally ‘ be themselves ’ . |
| 23 | The focus of the research was to be a number of experimental areas representing a variety of town sizes , locations and physical characteristics . |
| 24 | While France stands shoulder to shoulder with Germany , and the two countries together account for half the EC output , the exchange rate mechanism will survive , representing a beacon of hope for federalists who still see a common currency as the bridge across which Europe must pass to a federal future , and a baleful threat for the sovereign Britishers , who see it as a black hole which could draw EC members inexorably into the same destiny . |
| 25 | We can view the space of possibilities at the lexical access level as a horizontal slice through the search space , representing a graph of word hypotheses . |
| 26 | One method of representing motion in 4-space on a plane is by representing a point in 4-space by a line on the plane , where each end of the line represents a pair of coordinates [ 17 ] : this is used in Fig. 2.19 to illustrate the strange attractor of Fig. 2.16 . |
| 27 | He worked at St Mary 's Hospital as assistant physician and lecturer in pathology and in 1866 graduated MD before returning to University College as professor of pathological anatomy in 1867 , becoming a physician to University College Hospital in 1878 . |
| 28 | She tried unsuccessfully to hide what she described as ‘ preposterous fear ’ , and I understood that her fear had no focus and no logic , but was becoming a state of mind . |
| 29 | Rock climbing is rapidly becoming a pariah among mountain activities . |
| 30 | We 're becoming a kind of hen-party . |