Example sentences of "[is] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thijs Lijbregts , who took over from Rinus Michels after Holland won the European Championship , has the additional pressure of managing one of the fancied teams while his best player , Ruud Gullit , is struggling to recover from a knee injury that has so far necessitated four operations and is threatening his career . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the also sympathetic but Grahamly maddening Tim is struggling to move into a flat on the row , while supposing himself to be struggling to come out of the closet . |
| 3 | Which is struggling to get off the ground . |
| 4 | Almondsbury , Bristol-based virtual reality developer Division Ltd is looking to expand into the mainstream by launching a new version of its dVS software for Silicon Graphics Inc workstations : prices start at £5,000 for basic networkable two-dimensional virtual modelling systems that run on Indigo machines ; virtual reality helmets can be added to larger host machines for fully immersive virtual reality applications ; Division is expecting to announce dVS for the RS/6000 soon , paving the way for an open systems Unix System V version . |
| 5 | Following the success of Jamie Delgado in the Orange Bowl tournament in Florida in December , Lloyd confirms that he is looking to expand upon the squad scheme from which Delgado has emerged . |
| 6 | For its next investment , AT&T Co says it is looking to buy into an information services company providing things like news , share price quotes and sports statistics , but the company declined to name prospective partners , saying any deal is far from closing . |
| 7 | After all , the theist is seeking to conform with the verification principle and is listing observations which count for or against God 's existence . |
| 8 | At the outset the church needs to identify the geographical area or kind of people it is seeking to reach with the gospel . |
| 9 | I HAVE recently joined a National Economic Development Council working party on European public purchasing , which is seeking to contribute to the opening up of public sector purchasing in the EC . |
| 10 | Internationally , the industry is seeking to work with the World Health Organisation , the European Commission and other regional authorities to develop practical alcohol policies . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , prospects for a $6.8bn purchase of the US ' second-largest airline , United , sank further on word that the airline 's machinists union is refusing to participate in an employee buyout scheme . |
| 12 | Opinion is tending to veer to the view that the wind has merely modified pre-existing sand accumulations left by other agencies , including the sea . |
| 13 | He 's a tough competitor but is tending to disappear from the action too often these days . |
| 14 | So the membrane then hyperpolarizes , but the stimulus is still present , and that 's tending to lead to a depolarization , so we get then this circle of membrane depolarization followed by hyperpolarization , but it 's the calcium activated K channels which are tending to restore the membrane potential to negative values . |
| 15 | For the second time in its history , New Scientist is attempting to move from a printing process based on solid metal type to one in which a computer stores the words . |
| 16 | Local authorities are resisting the cut , saying BGR is attempting to dictate to the market and calling for the Office of Fair Trading to intervene . |
| 17 | ‘ Superman is going to die at the end . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Nick , ’ he said at last , ‘ my son is going to die within a year if I do n't do something very drastic . |
| 19 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 20 | Since the radial is 10°wide if your turn is going to finish on the inbound track the L/R needle will come onto the scale at 60° and you simply continue turning and scanning . |
| 21 | I do n't know what amount the Halifax is going to ask for the business , ’ said Stephen Brown yesterday . |
| 22 | Chaillot is going to ask for the advance back . ’ |
| 23 | If detailed semantic and syntactical analysis of words in a commercial contract is going to lead to a conclusion that flouts business common sense , it must be made to yield to business common sense ( The Antaios [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 229 at 233 ) . |
| 24 | Mr Heseltine has confirmed to us that he is going to talk to the Chancellor on this matter , and I believe he has done so ’ . |
| 25 | ’ What governor in his right mind is going to go into a dining room of 150 prisoners and say that ? |
| 26 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 27 | Ah and the next piece is going to go over the window . |
| 28 | That said , Personal Finance Manager will help you keep track of where your money is going to go over the course of the year . |
| 29 | My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself . |
| 30 | But I thought to myself , one day somebody is going to say to the child , ‘ Come and whisper in my ear … . ’ ’ |