Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a maintenance agreement includes a provision purporting to restrict any right to apply to a court for an order containing financial arrangements , then — |
| 2 | On the other hand , it is argued ( E. R. Dew , 56 Lqw Society 's Gazette 365 ) that the most likely ‘ other reason ’ for which an agreement might be void or unenforceable , apart from containing a provision against application to the court , would be precisely the want of consideration if the agreement be not under seal ; the legislature , it is urged on this view , would not have made inroads on the fundamental requirement of valuable consideration in a contract not under seal , by a provision purporting to deal with the maintenance rights of a wife . |
| 3 | In August , a trial burning produced a corrosive black cloud which caused damage worth millions of pounds to new cars stored nearby . |
| 4 | Yet , even before she pushed open the gate , she saw old Mother Jacobsen look up and the cat on her lap rise and turn before folding itself into a crescent preparing to go back to sleep . |
| 5 | so it 's a bit trying to set up a system |
| 6 | Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't |
| 7 | Santa Cruz Inc 's chief executive officer Larry Michels ' decision to retire maybe as much as a year ago has not run smoothly , with the ensuing hunt for a successor failing to snare a likely replacement . |
| 8 | So I mean I think what we envisaged though was that the local publicity group erm would meet and see if the well first of all I suppose was there a , a necessity having seen what we 've got from national level er necessity to produce a kind of newsletter , a joint unison newsletter specific to Northumberland , that 's what the group was going to have a look at was n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ The wrong shot can mean a treble bogey , and then it 's a struggle trying to catch up . |
| 10 | A GANG stealing to order are believed to be behind the theft a £28,000 Mercedes from an Ulster garage . |
| 11 | FOR A gang conspiring to conquer Europe , the Nazis were capable of conduct weirdly out of character . |
| 12 | When he saw a gang trying to break into a car in Gateshead he and a neighbour chased the youths . |
| 13 | ‘ You can grow a beard waiting to do something wise . |
| 14 | But the spirited kid who used to wear a badge proclaiming Born To Raise Hell was also in trouble with his teachers more often than not . |
| 15 | The result is a lyrical prose particularly effective when it serves to embody a singing climax at strategic points — a not unsurprising tactical manoeuvre on the part of a writer trying to intimate the reality of a mystical experience which he expresses as transposing everyday speech to song . |
| 16 | A measure having received the approval of a majority in both Houses and the Royal Assent is recognised by the common law as an Act of Parliament . |
| 17 | A parliamentary enactment whose effect would be the destruction of any recognisable form of democracy ( for example , a measure purporting to deprive a substantial section of the population of the vote on the grounds of their hostility to Government policies ) could not consistently be applied by the courts as law . |
| 18 | So I could write out a cheque saying paid Carl sixty pounds for doing my car . |
| 19 | Indeed the term also doubled as a verb meaning to leap about and carouse . |
| 20 | Breach of this provision would normally lead to expulsion , if only to pre-empt the possibility of a creditor seeking to have a receiver appointed . |
| 21 | But suddenly he seemed to blossom out and take weight , like a ghost deciding to cross back over the frontier from the land of death . |
| 22 | Basically , the man was a parchment-seller trying to raise good hard silver or gold to finance the export of parchment to Nantes and the import of wine . |
| 23 | There have always been a minority of wealthy older people and a majority struggling to survive in poverty . |
| 24 | Front Page Story ( 1953 ) is set in a newspaper office , where a harassed editor played by Jack Hawkins deals with homeless children , a scientist wanting to spill atomic secrets , a journalist 's crisis of conscience and a wife who plans to walk out on him . |
| 25 | ‘ You do tend to get thugs looking for a fight trying to join up for my classes , that 's why you have to be very selective . ’ |
| 26 | I believe , as Zacco believes , that to yield would be a weakness amounting to sin . |
| 27 | Is a banquet going to make everyone feel pleasantly pampered or is it going to cause hangovers and indigestion the next morning when you 've got some crucial business to get through ? |
| 28 | The prospect of a play attempting to deal realistically with the phenomenon of drug and club culture would seem to be setting itself up as a target for scorn and ridicule from people involved in the scene and as a scapegoat for moral guardians who bitterly oppose it . |
| 29 | Under current practice a user wanting to access a central data base in order to determine boundary conditions , will have to go through the following procedure ( similar to the remote operator , discussed earlier ) : I ) identify all relevant drawings , 2 ) inspect the relevant drawings to determine the required information , 3 ) use the information to determine interference . |
| 30 | ’ ( Threatening picture of a wave rising to overwhelm ; seen from the front , as if the viewer is about to be swallowed and filmed in slow motion to add tension . ) |