Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be a trapped bird , he thought , noticing a door at the front where there was a partitioned-off section . |
| 2 | After working as a structural engineering designer he was a draughtsman with aircraft firms before becoming a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in civil engineering and aeronautics ( 1922–39 ) . |
| 3 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 4 | Julia Roberts ' beauty did n't stop Pretty Woman becoming a smash at the box office . |
| 5 | By wrecking a motion at the time , rightly or wrongly placed and once again I see this afternoon we 've got a similar motion on the table . |
| 6 | His memorandum , delivered on 9 January 1939 , repeated previous arguments and drew attention to the weakness of the Labour League of Youth and the difficulty of gaining a majority at the next General Election . |
| 7 | This was consolidated by the desire of smaller states to make the best of their inevitable inferiority by gaining a place at the top table through federation , and by the gradual decline of Austria as the only credible rival for hegemony in Central Europe . |
| 8 | Much more satisfactory is the method of lofting a pulley at the end of the main kiteline and passing a continuous loop of secondary line through the pulley . |
| 9 | High walls of planking surrounded the body on the second table , forming a trough at the bottom of which the body lay . |
| 10 | The church had been partly demolished by a devastating gale in the 1930s , to the secret relief of the Church Commissioners who had been considering what to do with a building of absolutely no architectural merit serving a congregation at the major festivals of six at the most . |
| 11 | Those available are anything but cheap , and there is little , if anything , on offer to the small business seeking a solution at the bottom end of the price range . |
| 12 | With Cyrille Regis and Brian Small dropped , being replaced by Dwight Yorke and Steve Froggatt , Villa again looked a side capable of sustaining a challenge at the top of the table . |
| 13 | No one causing a scene at the NME . |
| 14 | The six , among 55 individuals banned by a High Court judge from trespassing on or causing a nuisance at the site , joined 500 others in a peaceful invasion of the construction site ; 27 were arrested . |
| 15 | Fretting a string at the first and sixteenth frets simultaneously gives around 0.5mm gap between the string and the top of the ninth fret on the D-18 model , and about 0.7mm on the D-32 . |
| 16 | Detectives are investigating a burglary at the Treasury , in which it is believed secret papers may have been photographed and proofs of potentially valuable coins taken .. |
| 17 | Scarborough police are also investigating a burglary at the Citadel Salvation Army building in the town where thieves made off with an Atari computer worth £520 . |
| 18 | The problem at the moment is , we 've been on Word Processor up to now , but the designer is designing a programme at the moment , so I do n't have a programme to show you because it 's with the designer , erm all we 've got is the diary , that we 're kind of like again on the word processor , that we 're producing tonight . |
| 19 | There are enough problems for the occupier of 11 Downing Street without adding a crisis at the banks or building societies . |
| 20 | She gathered the wrinkly flowered stuff , pink and yellow and blue rosebuds , on to the deep yoke , adding a ruff at the low neckline , pinched the elastic into the edges of the puff sleeves , tramped her needle patiently around the enormous hem . |
| 21 | ( It was Polyzalus who dedicated the famous ‘ Charioteer ’ , a bronze statue celebrating a victory at the Pythian games of 474 at Delphi . ) |
| 22 | But erm I 'm compiling a list at the moment on tutors and er I 'll be able to let you know the probably next week I should think . |
| 23 | Learning to relax is like pulling a plug at the bottom of your stress glass , gradually the tension and stress drain away . |
| 24 | WHAT a moving picture of runner Derek Redmond being comforted by his father after pulling a hamstring at the olympics . |
| 25 | ‘ The [ Bull ] case figures among the most urgent , even before that of Thomson SA , ’ the article says , citing a source at the Ministry of Industry close to the minister . |
| 26 | TWO women were occupying a building at the doomed Parkside Colliery , St Helens , this afternoon in protest over the closure of the pit . |
| 27 | They see themselves as occupying a position at the bottom of an organization which places a heavy emphasis on hierarchy , making their location all the worse . |
| 28 | Can you see how West could have defended the hand better other than leading a Club at the first trick ? |
| 29 | Endill sat beside him and he started turning a handle at the front of it . |
| 30 | Last year , Campbell Christie became the first person to take complaints over GCHQ to the tribunals , naming a section at the communications centre , K24e , as being responsible for intercepting telexes sent by trade unionists in Eastern Europe . |