Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO of Britain 's biggest unit trust groups , Henderson Unit Trust Management and Gartmore Investment Management , are launching a joint company to handle the administration of their funds . |
| 2 | A CHURCH is launching a medical mission to save a teenage member of the congregation . |
| 3 | Edward Plantagenet of England , disgusted at his minion Balliol 's miserable failure at Annan , had announced that he himself would now take over the subjugation of Scotland , despite the Treaty of Northampton , and was presently assembling a great army to bring north with him . |
| 4 | You may feel you are moving very slowly , but in fact you will simply be counteracting a nervous tendency to rush headlong into everything and to lose control of what is going on . |
| 5 | Steve Kay , the friend he 'd been out with , says it 's just an example of how Swindon 's becoming a dangerous place to live in . |
| 6 | Recycling Though costly , recycling is becoming a popular way to cut waste volumes . |
| 7 | She had elected to keep the group to women only , instead of employing a male model to act as bridegroom , but as she came out of the dressing-room she would have welcomed someone to walk by her side . |
| 8 | Carrie had managed to cope with the twofold demands of the business and motherhood by employing a young woman to look after Rachel during the busy days . |
| 9 | The exhibition provides a unique opportunity for anyone considering keeping a particular breed to have a good look , talk to the owner and make other helpful contacts . |
| 10 | TV campaigner Esther Rantzen was tonight announcing a political initiative to back her call for a nationwide witness protection programme . |
| 11 | Announcing a firm intention to make an offer |
| 12 | It is still possible to buy new cast iron fittings for wastes : some have special couplings utilising a rubber gasket to join two lengths of pipe together which does away with the need for traditional sockets and spigot connections , where one pipe fits into the end – another with caulking compound to make the seal . |
| 13 | A statute empowering a public body to dispense with a hearing will , for example , be interpreted to allow oral hearings to be omitted ; courts will lean against allowing a tribunal to decide a matter without giving the individual a chance to see the opposing case and have his own considered . |
| 14 | Welcome back : The Red Cross is opening a temporary sanctuary to house refugees from Bosnia . |
| 15 | I would wish to emphasize that our ‘ normal ’ ‘ adjusted ’ state is too often the abdication of ecstasy , the betrayal of our true potentialities , that many of us are only too successful in acquiring a false self to adapt the false realities . |
| 16 | The adoption of standards by TDWG networking and the first steps towards ‘ taxonomically intelligent ’ integrity checking are enabling a second generation to appear . |
| 17 | One of the most important aspects of bereavement help is perhaps enabling a grieving person to talk about their negative thoughts as well as their sad thoughts ( which are the ones it is presumed we want to hear ) . |
| 18 | I hope that this book provides others with insights , thereby enabling a scientific consensus to emerge . |
| 19 | Monie motions with her hands , rhythmically striking empty air , revealing a secret desire to perfect her drum technique and maybe some day play beside percussion ace Sheila E. ‘ The funk ! |
| 20 | At the corner of the Privy Garden some gas engineers were returning a repaired main to service , flaring the gas to make sure no air had entered it during the work . |
| 21 | Leaving the track a pathless beeline may be made for the lower end of the trees , there ascending a short way to find Yordas Cave . |
| 22 | The FT-SE 100-Share Index had plunged 41 points by late afternoon , before staging a slight recovery to close down 36.2 on the day at 2,863.9 . |
| 23 | On Friday , the store is staging a grand re-opening to celebrate the complete refurbishment , which offers customers a brighter , more spacious shopping environment , yet with the same friendly service they have come to expect . |
| 24 | They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana . |
| 25 | INVESTORS took their cue yesterday from the generally dubious reaction of the media to the Budget and the FT-SE 100-Share Index fell 36 points in the first 15 minutes of trading before staging a partial rally to close 29.4 lower on the day at 2,889.9 , 100 points below its all-time high two weeks ago . |
| 26 | The early drop wiped around £800 million off the company 's market capitalisation — before staging a modest comeback to stand 51p down . |
| 27 | Peter Murphy was later released after signing a written promise to appear in Danbury Superior Court , Ridgefield , next Friday . |
| 28 | Cost leadership may come more through capturing a large-enough share to enable the company to take better advantage of economies of scale than its rivals . |
| 29 | Many reasons may be adduced for the Polish uprising of November 1830 : the Russians ' two-year hunt for " Polish Decembrists " ; the tsar 's reluctance to be separately crowned as King of Poland ; the refusal of St Petersburg to attach to the " Congress Kingdom " of Poland the provinces to the east which had once been part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; the emergence of Polish literary figures who " understood romanticism as embodying a patriotic call to restore the old republic within its old frontiers " ; the decline of the Polish economy ; the inspiration of the events of 1830 in France and Belgium ; and the arrest , just before the rising , of a number of militant soldiers and students . |
| 30 | The turnout was given as 75.16 per cent of some 120,000 eligible voters , and provisional figures showed 96.84 per cent as approving the draft , according to the Interior Ministry on Sept. 5 ; 96.79 per cent approving a second proposition to restrict the number of political parties to four . |