Example sentences of "to [noun] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they at any form of disadvantage when they come to university studying a science subject such as chemistry ? |
| 2 | The next moment the waiter came back to Harvey carrying a little cake with twenty-six candles — all alight — he put it down in front of Harvey and Harvey sang — quite loudly all by himself — Harvey sang ‘ Happy Birthday to Me ’ all through . |
| 3 | Clearly radical ideas were the property of a minute minority : in 1793 the people listened , not to French agents , but to friars preaching a crusade against atheism . |
| 4 | After signing the accord , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , Marian Calfa said it was a milestone on the way to Czechoslovakia becoming a full EC member , for which he would now press . |
| 5 | The funding will contribute towards an increase in the sample fraction from its usual 10% to 50% giving a total ( target ) sample of about 35,000 . |
| 6 | This has led to researchers making a distinction between central and peripheral information in a scene and the assumption that arousal will impair memory for peripheral details but improve it for central ones ( see particularly Christianson , in press ) . |
| 7 | The review is designed to identify matters which might give rise to queries following a review by a reasonably informed , but uninvolved , reader . |
| 8 | The rapid growth of private charity in these years also gave rise to institutions demonstrating a variety of approaches to the palliation of poverty . |
| 9 | The announcement of the losses , which came to light following a report by the US investment bank J.P . |
| 10 | The issue had come to light following a break-in at the office of his solicitor ( one of a number of such incidents in recent months at premises connected with political parties or with individual politicians ) and the theft of a document on the affair . |
| 11 | The Factory Whistle he had already read , in the handsome new edition personally inscribed to him by Viola Machin ( ‘ To Gregory Hocking a very good friend to both Walter 's widows — from Viola Machin ’ ) . |
| 12 | Apparently Hank 's divorce had come through sooner than expected , the deed was done one Saturday afternoon in the local Registrar 's Office , and she came back to Bourn wearing a wedding ring like a brass curtain ring ( Mary 's words ) , to await her discharge from the Waaf . |
| 13 | For Moffatt , with a good winning streak behind him , it is an unexpected but welcome return to action following a lengthy lay-off with a facial injury . |
| 14 | Newcastle go to Mansfield nursing a 2-1 lead . |
| 15 | Menzies and Fleming will never forget that two hours riding backwards , with every soul from Dull to Aberfeldy having a good look at their humiliation . ’ |
| 16 | They can forget about privacy and often fall prey to gangs operating a regime of intimidation . |
| 17 | There is an extensive and rapidly growing literature on the tectonics of plate interiors , but unfortunately much of it is written from a geophysical rather than a geomorphic perspective and it is not readily accessible to readers lacking a good grounding in physics and maths . |
| 18 | you know , I think I mean , I mean he even to going back to college doing a couple of A levels would n't alter his benefit . |
| 19 | I go out all day to college having a lovely time while you stay at home making yourself ill . |
| 20 | Similarly , in ‘ The Rise in Coals ’ Corvan takes the tune of ‘ The Mistletoe Bough ’ , an early nineteenth-century ‘ gothic ’ ballad mixing melodrama and sentimentality , and puts it to words describing a situation of real emotion for working people : a rise in the price of household coal during the coldest weather of the winter ( Ex. 1.9 ) . |
| 21 | This is hardly the sort of catchy title guaranteed to get most of us rushing to our desks in search of pen and paper , nor is it easy to imagine squeezing into packed village halls to listen to speeches demanding a rewrite of the rules on deferred taxation . |
| 22 | The key to the telephone revolution is a development which can link telephone exchanges to computers running a widely-used software system called UNIX . |
| 23 | The 1991 budget was presented to the National Assembly on Nov. 22 , 1990 , but was subject to revision following a government decision on Jan. 2 , 1991 , to raise the minimum wage by 15 per cent to the equivalent of US$200 a month in an attempt to relieve internal political tension . |
| 24 | THE c- myc protein ( Myc ) contains an amino-terminal transcriptional activation domain and a carboxy-terminal basic helix-loop-helix-leucine zipper ( bHLH-Z ) domain that directs dimerization of Myc with its partner , the max protein ( Max ) , and promotes DNA binding to sites containing a CACGTG core consensus sequence . |
| 25 | We glimpse Raulinus , for example , who came from Devon in the mid-thirteenth century , wasted time as a student in Paris for two years and then came on to Bologna making a living copying manuscripts , drinking and writing love poems to Meldina . |
| 26 | As we have seen , this applies to industrial relations issues such as pay determination , and to matters having a major bearing on industrial relations , such as restructuring and rationalization plans . |
| 27 | The final is boosted to 13.65p giving a total of 18.9p , up 6.2p% . |
| 28 | In this definition , ‘ enterprise ’ means any entity , whether profit-oriented or not , and ‘ audit ’ is not limited to circumstances requiring a ‘ true and fair view ’ opinion . |
| 29 | A TV racing video of Doncaster Racecourse , home of the St Leger , first sparked an interest in golf for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum which has led to Dubai becoming a golfing holiday centre . |
| 30 | He who goes to work wearing a Chelsea football kit under his suit and later makes love in the team socks while quoting Hamlet clearly has no truck with cultural snobbishness . |