Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poverty among young people on income support is now so bad that it 's affecting their physical and mental health , according to a leading children 's charity . |
| 2 | FAMILIES in receipt of state benefit are forced to go hungry because of lack of money according to a National Children 's Home survey just published . |
| 3 | The families of children with learning difficiulties are getting a raw deal , according to a national children 's charity . |
| 4 | His greatest successes came on the cup front , scoring the goal that took the FA Cup to the Bridge in 1970 ( the only time Chelsea have won it ) , and the following season sharing in a European Cup-Winners ' Cup replay triumph over Real Madrid . |
| 5 | Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) ended a summit meeting in Rome on Nov. 8 with an invitation to eastern European countries for closer co-operation , starting with a foreign ministers ' meeting in December . |
| 6 | A new paperback edition of Maeve Kelly 's first novel — an urgent , provocative story of a woman 's escape from the claustrophobia of provincial family life and her baptism of fire into the feminist movement , working for a battered women 's refuge . |