Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a handful of players from their original selection turned out , the management obviously having decided that they were not going to give even a hint of their championship formation . |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you 're going to inherit quite a lot of money . ’ |
| 3 | Yes bear in mind that that of course , that you 're going to get quite a lot of adult audience going through it as well as kids of course . |
| 4 | I am going to raise later a number of missing parts that I I . |
| 5 | It was beginning to dawn on Hoomey that horses like this — surely ? — were going to need quite a lot of attention , feeding , brushing and all that stuff . |
| 6 | You 're not going to brush aside a tradition with a few facts . |
| 7 | You know this is going to take quite a bit of getting used to , ’ he complained . |
| 8 | The museums are going to take quite a lot of time . |
| 9 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 10 | This division was aggravated on the following day when Obuchi chose to fill all executive positions within the faction with his supporters , thereby declining to make even a gesture of reconciliation towards his opponents . |
| 11 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 12 | I referred to it and you oddly enough in a handwritten letter to my father the other night after referring to Lord XXXXX one of whose contemporaries and friends is coming to stay here a couple of nights next week , and who has been a pillar in the fabric of my life , a man for whom consistency , continuity and courtesy are all — and who is often concerned at the unhappiness which is my ? ? ? ? ? ? ? it is in anything other than a bit of paper , which most of my old friends who wish me well , doubt ) … |
| 13 | ‘ While I was at Hibs , I had frequently watched Rangers on television and noticed Chris Woods having to make only a couple of saves per game . |
| 14 | Presumably for keeping Speed quiet , whilst managing to get forward a couple of times with Rijkaard-like timing . |
| 15 | Telegrams of ‘ interest ’ and ‘ support ’ were received from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York respectively , and by the end of the year Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Buckland were claiming to have over a quarter of a million signatures on the Manifesto . |
| 16 | 88open is trying to pull together a meeting of consortia chiefs this month to mull over the kinds of business , customer and anti-trust issues they all share . |
| 17 | Trying to group together a selection of best walks in an area as complex as Northumberland , with its historical landmarks , beautiful coastline , vast afforestation and rolling moorland is a very subjective exercise , but Frank Duerden has managed to select 30 diverse walks . |
| 18 | Merchant bank N M Rothschild is trying to put together a consortium of City firms . |
| 19 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 20 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
| 21 | Unix System Labs has decided to hold off announcing a Destiny branding programme at Unix Expo ( UX No 401 ) : we have a sneaking suspicion they 're trying to put together a deal with 88open for compatibility test suites . |
| 22 | Trying to mould together a side in only four days with eight players coming together for the first time is a pretty difficult task . |
| 23 | I could n't believe it , and even after trying to zap away a monster of a hang-over with a can of Lucozade Sport and 4 cups of coffee I still ca n't believe it . |