Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ayatollah was teaching in Qom when he was arrested in 1963 after condemning a raid on the college by the Shah 's security forces . |
| 2 | So I 've got a feeling you 're going to end up transcribing a lot of the north of the border stuff . |
| 3 | Sedgefield District Council recreation officer Phil Ball , one of the council 's successes , was last week regaling a committee on the benefits of exercise . |
| 4 | Fire crews have been tackling a blaze at a company in the Old Station Yard at Bicester . |
| 5 | But when the fire team are training or tackling a blaze within the perimeter he puts on a red fireman 's helmet as a member of their support system . |
| 6 | ‘ Every time I called him Daddy , it must have been like twisting a knife in a wound , ’ she said , with a shiver . |
| 7 | Now North had the problem - would Three Spades be taken as a probe for no-trumps ( denying a guard in the suit ) or some sort of control-showing bid agreeing hearts ? |
| 8 | SELLAFIELD bosses are exposed today as liars after denying a cover-up over a leak at the nuclear plant . |
| 9 | What happens where the police flout the rules , for example by breaching the code or by denying a solicitor in a trivial case or by refusing access on grounds which are manifestly outside the statute and the code ? |
| 10 | ‘ The market in New York is walking a tightrope between a recovery that is too weak and one that is too strong . |
| 11 | There is a strange grafted conjunction between a laburnum and a pink cytisus ( best avoided ) , and a fernery in a secret gully reached by walking a gangplank over a rushing rivulet . |
| 12 | ‘ Sit down , ’ Marc told Sarella curtly when the maid had gone out after depositing a tray on a table between them . |
| 13 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 14 | Professor Paul Wilkinson of the Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism was in London launching a report into the mid-air terrorist bombing of a Pan Am 747 above the Scottish town last December , which killed 270 people . |
| 15 | One of them was cradling a sub-machine-gun in the crook of his arm . |
| 16 | In 1988 , Oulton moved to the Marlborough Gallery , which was busy assembling a stable of the best of the new painters . |
| 17 | Even the staircases were replaced by the direct quarter-turn pattern , necessitating a rearrangement of the upper deck seating and stair hand-rails . |
| 18 | It must be a trapped bird , he thought , noticing a door at the front where there was a partitioned-off section . |
| 19 | Put this way , 2A , the practice of reading language itself , self-conciously understanding a text as an illustrative example of one 's linguistic theory , is an extraordinary and peculiar hermeneutic practice . |
| 20 | A reader can be fully understanding a section from a story , and yet fail to insert the exact word in a phrase such as " watched the fleeting panorama of shop fronts " , when no other information about the shop fronts is given . |
| 21 | Kennedy J. , at p. 346 , said : " To make a … rule which has the effect of debarring a man from the exercise of an absolute statutory right , unless he complies with a number of requirements is … clearly ultra vires . " |
| 22 | I waved to the toddling girl who was over by the window again , banging a fist on the pane and watching the rain drizzle down . |
| 23 | We could only find the paths and drives by banging a crowbar on the ground : when it hit the gravel it rang . |
| 24 | Although I can now see the inherent sense in glueing a book to a table , then the point was just beyond me . |
| 25 | He revealed that although this appeared to be an instance favouring a pluralist conception of law-making , i.e. law representing a compromise between the interests of numerous groups , it was in fact a law which basically reflected the interests of the coal industry and those dependent upon it — manufacturers of heavy equipment and the electric utilities , who consume nearly 80 per cent of domestically mined coal . |
| 26 | All the more unfortunate does this become in the presence of narrow majorities , each representing a minority of the electorate , sometimes a small minority , and when at least one of the parties believes that the prerogatives and rights conferred by electoral victory , however narrow , not merely entitle but compel it to impose on the helpless but unorganized majority irreversible changes for which it never consciously voted and to which most of its members are opposed . |
| 27 | However , it has been judicially observed that the objection to a rent representing a percentage of the tenant 's turnover is that , if the price of a commodity rises at a faster rate than the cost of living , pressure is likely to develop on dealers in that commodity to reduce their margin of profit or rate of commission ( Naylor v Uttoxeter UDC ( 1974 ) 231 EG 619 per Brightman J ) . |
| 28 | Part of the cost will be independent of the volume of production , representing a share of the fixed costs of running the factory , such as rates , heating , etc . |
| 29 | Representing a country with a reputation for hard-nosed materialism , the Eagles earned the heartfelt admiration of their Canadian counterparts on the occasion of the 16th annual Can-Am international staged in Denver , Colorado , on June 13 . |
| 30 | When the flora of fleshy-fruited species in a forest as a whole is examined , as at Cocha Cashu in Amazonian Peru , the fruits of the majority of the species ( in this case , two-thirds of 258 species , representing a quarter of the total flora and half of the genera with fleshy fruits ) seem to fit into one of two categories . |