Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She ai n't goin' to like that , ’ said Linda . |
| 2 | ‘ You ent goin' to wear that , is you ? ’ said George . |
| 3 | This last view prevailed as the Commission rejected an intermediate third party status which would take account of this distinction , preferring to see all third parties in an identical legal position . |
| 4 | The pattern is confusing , yet fascinating ; a good map is an essential companion for anyone daring to penetrate this wildest of sanctuaries . |
| 5 | It 's no longer thought of as cranky or old-fashioned , as the press tries to make out , but as a much-needed way of helping to preserve this world by finding alternatives to chemicals and peat-cutting . |
| 6 | In practice the phenothiazines and lithium proved to be of great importance in managing schizophrenia and mania , respectively , and in helping to restore many patients to everyday life . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's action has probably ended any prospect of the UNHCR helping to monitor any compulsory repatriation to Vietnam . |
| 8 | Great crises do occur in the midst of structural change and , in fact , are part of the process helping to carry those changes through . |
| 9 | Nelson has been struggling to implement this grand vision ever since but , in the course of his work , he established the hypertext model as a means of getting around a huge database . |
| 10 | There is very little actual fish catching to report this month , so with things being slow it has given me a chance to read up on fish nutrition , something I have a reasonable knowledge of due to once working in one of the then leading fish culture units at Aston University . |
| 11 | In my patch , many small builders are doing well and are struggling to find enough labour to keep them going in today 's market . |
| 12 | The word processor package which I 'm using to write this book has a couple of games built into it — partly for light relief , no doubt , but also to give newcomers the opportunity to play with the system , to get confident in using the tools . |
| 13 | This course , organised by the Agricultural training board , is helping to train those who want to learn how to shear sheep . |
| 14 | The students go out and spend part of each week all through the school year in the schools , and the teachers in those schools , whether they are science teachers or history teachers or English teachers , collaborate with us in helping to train those students . |
| 15 | It is clear that SCOTVEC has a central role in helping to meet these needs . |
| 16 | As human beings , we would come to what seems the obvious explanation of this chain , ( that the woman was scared ) bringing to bear all our knowledge of how things happen in the world . |
| 17 | Leyhill is proud of its record in helping to rehabilitate former criminals … and thanks to a spell of gardening , many inmates can look forward to a brighter future … their light fingers turned into green fingers … |
| 18 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 19 | Or helping to write some plays . |
| 20 | For mothers struggling to meet these responsibilities , such gifts can help to protect the living standards of their children ( Craig and Glendinning , 1990a ; Ritchie , 1990 ) . |
| 21 | Because of her international success and recognition , Meyer is one of the personalities South Africa is using to encourage more and more youngsters from the townships and under-developed areas to take up sport . |
| 22 | Helping to provide these interfaces — so-called middleware — will be crucial and signals the need for software companies to become increasingly service orientated . |
| 23 | By a process described by Paterson as ‘ Dissimulation ’ , the Law Lords began to violate one of the three expectations of judicial activity necessary to do justice in individual cases while , nevertheless , appearing to uphold all three expectations . |
| 24 | If you 're dying to see these fairy tale castles for which Austria is famed , then take the trip to Neuschwanstein where King Ludwig 's fairy tale castle is waiting to capture your imagination . |
| 25 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 26 | Correct , the position Chair , is that we are , as I said earlier , endeavouring to pull all those committees overspending back in line with the budget in ninety four , five . |
| 27 | Sorry for the long letter , but I 've been itching to write this for a long time . |
| 28 | This male group also has the lowest percentage making walk journeys , and uses walking to meet less of its travel requirements than any other age and sex group . |
| 29 | In endeavouring to meet this need numerous problems are encountered , notably how to find enough money to provide adequately for the increasingly large proportion of the population who are in retirement , and therefore by and large non-productive , and how to define ‘ adequate ’ in this context . |
| 30 | Sieve it , pressing to extract all the colour from the saffron ( or , for a good strong colour , put the lot in a food processor ) , and set it aside to cool . |