Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the meeting was over and the main demonstration had dispersed , some civil rights supporters succeeded in infiltrating to Market Square by a roundabout route . |
| 2 | When viruses succeed in binding to cell membrane receptors they still have to enter the cell and break up into separated proteins and genetic material before they can replicate . |
| 3 | Even if parents succeed in coming to terms with letting their children go , their best efforts are likely to be undermined by the ‘ dirty washing ’ gambit , or proprietorial claims to ‘ my room ’ which the child will not relinquish . |
| 4 | All three writers deal with a haunting problem which humanity faces in coming to terms with its lot . |
| 5 | Scrambling along the ground at 4 metres per second , a quail functions at a miserable 7 per cent fuel efficiency , Heglund found , while a man running at that speed achieves a 73 per cent ratio of fuel used in running to energy generated from food and oxygen . |
| 6 | The aim of this research is to examine the strategies which prisoners and their families adopt in coming to terms with custody and its various social consequences . |
| 7 | This was concluded by a specific description of the problems involved in selling to Japan . |
| 8 | In this it resembled the British constitution itself , which , as apo-logists delight in explaining to foreigners , is nowhere embodied in a single document having the force of law . |
| 9 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 10 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 11 | The hesitation which the average individual has in going to Court and giving evidence should not be under-estimated and if there is , therefore , an inclination to avoid that the Tender provides the agent with a basis for persuading the client to accept . |
| 12 | The difficulties that many girls and boys have in talking to parents about sex and contraception often make it a subject to be mutually avoided . |
| 13 | It entailed enormous amounts of time spent in communicating to people , sharing ideas and views , articulating goals , encouraging , and hearing out . |
| 14 | Since there was no question of us being able to invest in a cargo ourselves , let alone afford to charter the empty vessel , our only solution lay in returning to Makassar and attempting to persuade our Chinese friends to raise the merchandise themselves and to send us along as its stewards and guardians . |
| 15 | That amount of daily fresh air and exercise does wonders for health and fitness , so the time taken in travelling to work is actually being put to good use . |