Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This season has a side struggling to stay in the second divison . |
| 2 | Already people who cancelled in January and February are back in our shops booking to go within the next two or three weeks . |
| 3 | Overall , however , our studies showed schools tending to cluster towards the following main types : |
| 4 | The potential for disaster lurks very close behind the bright shiny facade waiting to pounce on the unwary and relieve them of substantial sums of money . |
| 5 | As has been firmly documented in much of the British press , Paris was divided into those designers attempting to proceed through the Nineties and more or less disappointing our expectations , and those who have love bombed straight back into the Seventies . |
| 6 | Soft light beginning to shimmer on the still water . |
| 7 | that a culturally sensitive arts education risks failing to exploit to the full its potential to culturally enrich the lives of its pupils by being , largely , ‘ gender blind ’ ; |
| 8 | Lazarene boys came to throw kisses at the trucks as they left , Justinette and Elice trying to squeeze through the open windows , catcalling back . |
| 9 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 10 | So as less salty water comes into contact with more salty water , the two water masses shift ( the fresher mass tending to float on the saltier mass ) . |
| 11 | 1983 ) looked at 1255 step-families applying to adopt from the step-family population of 6150 in 1980 , and identified a major problem of variable treatment by courts of step-families seeking adoption . |
| 12 | COMPANIES wanting to break into the vast Russian consumer market have been told to cater for five distinct groups with very different tastes : Kuptsi , Cossacks , Students , Businessmen and Russian Souls . |
| 13 | Relations with western Europe thus took on a high profile and Finland was among the EFTA countries seeking to negotiate with the European Communities ( EC ) a single European Economic Area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ; 38 ] . |
| 14 | What are our enlightened descendants going to do about the fourth element , Earth ? |
| 15 | We also a member of the Accountants ' Business Network ( ABN ) which exists to circulate details of companies for sale and companies wishing to buy among the major accountancy firms . |
| 16 | Corbett nodded and they staggered on , bodies soaked in sweat , eyes blinded with panic , legs and feet threatening to turn into the heaviest lead . |
| 17 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 18 | Crowds were composed of groups of family , friends , or work-mates tending to go to the same part of the ground and recognizing those around them . |
| 19 | I stayed with Robert Fraser for some years and it all ended with Robert going to jail on the famous drug bust with the Rolling Stones . |
| 20 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 21 | Non-return valve ( check valve ) to prevent hot water returning to mix with the cold water in the mains |
| 22 | Head twisting to look in the dark glass above the creaking bed . |
| 23 | There were many reasons why after two decades of activity the American industry should begin to centre on Hollywood but surely Lary May is right to see the move ultimately in terms of the movies seeking to escape from the constant demands of Progressive America . |
| 24 | Amongst all these fugitives seeking to surrender to the British in those first few days were the two groups whose fate is the particular concern of this report . |
| 25 | J. Marshall , Tanners Hill Cottage , Crook : I was standing on the steps of Durham Crown Court waiting to go in the public gallery , the assizes were on . |
| 26 | There have been a number of studies attempting to look at the vexed question of the effect of healing of oesophagitis on oesophageal function . |
| 27 | The accreditation , heralded as a major requisite for firms wishing to compete in the new European single market , does not guarantee any improvement in quality performance or customer focus , it is claimed . |
| 28 | The accreditation , heralded as a major requisite for firms wishing to compete in the new European single market , does not guarantee any improvement in quality performance or customer focus , it is claimed . |
| 29 | Mr Hicks bravely pronounces that an activity based costing approach to cost management is not an option for an organisation hoping to compete in the 1990s — it is a requirement . |
| 30 | Unless and until more knowledge is gathered concerning the aspirations , capabilities and limitations of schools and the people who work in them , and until sufficient flexibility is built into syllabus planning to allow for the necessary variations that are inherent in planning and providing learning for different people in different contexts , the gap between prescription and reality will remain an unconscionably wide one . |