Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much the family cling to their culture and security , the younger generation at work and school are grappling with a different set of realities ; the wisdom of the older family member may be less acceptable . |
| 2 | It addresses both health and social services but is disappointing in treating both in traditionally separate fashion ( see Twigg 's section on mainstream services ) rather than grappling with the emerging picture of multi-disciplinary support teams and the strengths and dilemmas of interagency working . |
| 3 | This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | No longer ‘ hidden from history ’ women artists and art historians have , over the past decade , been grappling with the thorny question of the feminine aesthetic . |
| 5 | In his corner Joseph found himself grappling with an overwhelming sense of bewilderment . |
| 6 | He moved to the window , walking with a pronounced limp on his left leg , the result of a shrapnel wound in the last days of the Korean War . |
| 7 | As she nodded towards the bathroom , right on cue it opened , and Jake , dressed in trousers with a towel slung round his neck , came walking with a broad smile into the room . |
| 8 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 9 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 10 | Tailoring the extent of regulation to the particular circumstances aims to give protection where it is necessary without interfering with the efficient operation of the market where it is not , but it does so at the expense of adding to the complexity of the regulations |
| 11 | Councillor Rodgers said , ‘ They are interfering with the democratic process in this by-election and seeking to buy political influence with what amounts to bribes ’ , and noted the offer was personally embarrassing for him as he negotiated as a union official with the companies over workers ' pay and conditions . |
| 12 | The sharp dualism that is proposed whereby acquisition and learning are two quite distinct processes would seem to force the conclusion that if you think carefully , choose your words , take your time before making your conversational contribution you can not communicate , or at any rate not very effectively , because you are interfering with the natural function of the acquired system . |
| 13 | Although originating in the universities , the new grassland ecology did not become a formal academic discipline , and flourished best among botanists with a practical concern for the problems experienced by the farmers who were interfering with the natural vegetation of the area . |
| 14 | Although no extraneous gas is used , CAMRA also frowns on the breather as interfering with the natural process of maturing and serving cask beer . |
| 15 | We know something is interfering with the natural motion of the craft , but is this force making us accelerate , or is it stopping us falling under gravity ? |
| 16 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 17 | As part of his plea agreement with the government , Mr Jacobson is cooperating with the continuing investigation into defence industry corruption . |
| 18 | But even then the East End of London could not have represented the rest of the country ; and even he plays for our pity , opening with a classic portrait of poverty and deprivation . |
| 19 | An open fire needs an air entry opening with a free area of at least 50% of the fire 's throat area , while rooms container other solid fuel or oil-burning appliances must have openings totalling 550sq mm per kilowatt of rated output above the first 5kW . |
| 20 | ‘ Three or four months ago I was appearing with a small company in Regensburg . |
| 21 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 22 | Any idea of codification was out of keeping with the English tradition of relatively unfettered judicial discretion and the elasticity of the common law . |
| 23 | In a rare note of optimism Pétain issued an Order of the Day , beginning , ‘ The 9th of April was a glorious day for our forces , ’ and ending with a famous paraphrase of Joan of Arc : ‘ Courage , on les aura ! ’ |
| 24 | STARTING with a crash and ending with the tightest finish in America 's Cup sailing , the fourth race of the Louis Vuitton challenger semi-finals off San Diego was both memorable and miserable , writes Tim Jeffery . |
| 25 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 26 | Hugh would get up purposefully and drive into Mondano , returning with a large number of bread rolls and a few croissants over which the children quarrelled . |
| 27 | ‘ When Edwards spoke to me we discussed other football matters , such as Webb leaving , Mark Hughes might be going and United returning with an increased bid for Hirst . |
| 28 | Roads fan out from Lairg like the open fingers of a hand , each with its separate destination — Lochinver , Scourie , Kinlochbervie , Durness and Tongue — and the postal services along them were undertaken by MacBrayne 's buses which left the post offices in these places in the early morning , bringing the day 's collection to Lairg for despatch on the railway and returning with the incoming mail from the station . |
| 29 | They were greeted by the solid smell of furniture polish , blending with the mouth-watering aroma of melting cheese as a croque monsieur sizzled under the grill . |
| 30 | An FRN with a par value of 100 , a quoted margin of 0.25 per cent over six-month LIBOR , is currently trading with a clean price of 99 . |