Gerund

Dear teacher , I’m slightly confused about the function and the priority of GERUND in the following sentences ;

a) The bureucracy “surrounding” the the whole procedure is also quite disconcerting.

b) An oil palm plantation “neighbouring” their village of Kayan here.

c) I do realize that a journalist has been always in a hurry “catching” news…


My question is : Is it eligible in the sense of grammar and formal english if we replace “surrounding” , “neighbouring” and “catching” with “that surrounds” , “that neihbours” and “to catch” ?.