Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm used to walking a long way carrying the baby . ’ |
| 2 | It is also launching a new series called Wisley Companions , the intention of which is to collect information from a variety of Wisley Handbooks and compact it into a smaller number of volumes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A CHURCH is launching a medical mission to save a teenage member of the congregation . |
| 5 | Jerry Brown , the Democrats ' dark horse in the presidential primaries , is settled in a worn armchair , cradling a 10-month-old baby called Peter , whose eyes are vacant because he was born with both cocaine and the HIV virus in his veins . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Statistical techniques are often essential for fully understanding a complex data set . |
| 8 | Understanding a biochemical defect brings us no nearer to understanding the thoughts and actions of the schizophrenic . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If a public company wishes to raise £1m , it could seek to do so by an issue of a series of , say £1 , £10 , £100 , or £1000 debentures , each representing a separate debt totalling in aggregate £1m . |
| 11 | His prototype was a three-foot fishtank representing a gravity-fed pool surrounded by a sparsely-furnished gravel garden . |
| 12 | In addition it was very remote from the catchment area , located fifteen miles from central London , representing a considerable journey given the density of the urban areas to be crossed and the paucity of public transport systems in Surrey . |
| 13 | We have a new order of things now , with rock climbing becoming a separate activity sharing little common ground with those other activities with which it has been traditionally linked : mountaineering , alpinism , big wall climbing and fell walking . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Would becoming a European business alter the scale of the targets in our plans ? |
| 16 | Some of the more important happenings are listed in chronological order throughout the following pages , starting from the early days of a town with a small harbour on the Water of Leith and becoming a modern port serving a city and its hinterland . |
| 17 | Overall , the process of becoming a budget-minded organisation has been a learning curve for some of us but has to be the right way to go . ’ |
| 18 | As Eisenhower stated in 1953 ‘ The United States should … make clear that Israel will not , merely because of its Jewish population , receive preferential treatment over any Arab state … our policy toward Israel is limited to assisting Israel in becoming a viable state living in amity with the Arab states , and … our interest in the wellbeing of each of the Arab states corresponds substantially with our interest in Israel . ’ |
| 19 | Recycling Though costly , recycling is becoming a popular way to cut waste volumes . |
| 20 | The TVEI was set up in 1983 as a series of pilot projects designed to test a variety of different methods and approaches , and was extended in 1987 , becoming a national scheme intended , eventually , to be available to all 14–18-year-olds , irrespective of ability . |
| 21 | His becoming a British subject put his Spanish goods at risk , and Oliver Cromwell himself took extraordinary precautions to ensure that they could be spirited out of the country and sent to England . |
| 22 | ‘ Becoming a Methodist minister has been my ambition for many years . |
| 23 | By 1702 , the house and grounds were held by Richard Boyle , the third Earl of Burlington , also the fourth Earl of Cork , who travelled extensively and had many influential friends , including Alexander Pope , who was considered to be head of the literary world and who moved with his parents , in 1716 , to the end house of Dr. Matthias Mawson 's new buildings ( Mawson Row ) , that end house being on the corner of Chiswick Lane and a lane that later became known as Mawson Lane ( now obliterated by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension A.4. ) ; that end house , in due course , becoming a Public House named Fox and Hounds , following Alexander Pope 's removal to Strawberry Hill at Twickenham . |
| 24 | On June 17 the Council of Ministers secured from trade union representatives an agreement consolidating a no-strike understanding reached on June 9 , which had brought a return to work on June 10 . |
| 25 | Acland placed himself at the head of the ‘ moral renaissance ’ , consolidating a personal following built around his best-selling books and endless public meetings into a loose organization called ‘ Forward March ’ . |
| 26 | Climatic geomorphology was introduced earlier ( p. 70 ) in relation to landscape chronology and one of the earliest approaches by Peltier ( 1950 ) endeavoured to relate climate to geomorphological process employing a semi-quantitative basis involving mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So keeping a low profile avoids getting embroiled in political controversy , which is the proper province of the elected Diet . |
| 30 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |