Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 100 $500 grants already on their way to scientists working in Russia , the International Science Foundation ( ISF ) has taken the first step towards meeting its goal of helping to preserve research in the former Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Moreover , the performance at the Park Lane Hotel was Joyce in his more restrained style , endeavouring to insinuate Fascism among the uncommitted and the influential . |
| 3 | By the end of September stripping to bare metal of the lower nose area for inspection had sadly also removed half of the nose art and the aircraft was completely gutted as the VMMU got to grips with their final overhaul . |
| 4 | Both the Israeli and the Lebanese governments made public statements pledging to maintain control of the key town of Jezzine , situated on the northernmost tip of the " security zone " . |
| 5 | Looking to go public in the next year , it is now out for a $1m second round to be used primarily for sales and marketing , efforts it 's yet to put its back into and needs a vice president of marketing and marketing and two sales people . |
| 6 | Also here is the earlier deed from the Holy Roman Emperor ( 1240 ) granting privileges and liberties to the people of Schwyz the document which was the constitutional basis of the stance taken by the people of Schwyz in refusing to accept subjection to the powerful Austrian Hapsburgs . |
| 7 | ‘ Quite often in the current climate you get a large group wanting to sell part of the non-core activities . |
| 8 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 9 | Now Gwynedd County Council have announced their intention to commission a comprehensive feasibility study into re-opening the whole line in conjunction with the 1964 Comp[any who have steadfastly maintained their stance of wanting to start reconstruction from the southern end where they are operating a three-quarter of a mile line along former British Rail land beside Porthmadog station . |
| 10 | ‘ We are looking to take control of the set pieces , particularly the scrums , ’ said Faulkner . |
| 11 | The Chandlers may be looking to move house in the next year or so . |
| 12 | The head of the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) , Mostafa Tolba , claimed in early September that a Swiss and an Italian company were seeking to take advantage of the civil war in Somalia by dumping toxic waste in that country . |
| 13 | The current EFTA Council chairman Pertti Salolainen spoke of the EEA as " a building block in the new European architecture " and suggested that " while the EC will of course remain the centre of attraction in Europe , the EEA may very well become an attractive concept for central and eastern European countries seeking to become part of the greater European family " . |
| 14 | But in seeking to make sense of the social and political environment in which he or she lives , an individual 's first and foremost point of reference is provided by father ( in terms of partisan preference , more likely father ) and mother . |
| 15 | The freedoms of childhood include flirting with father and attempting to seduce mother in the safe knowledge that this is play and it will not get out of hand . |
| 16 | ‘ In the early Fifties , we all started setting up Resistance networks again , all over Europe , when it looked as if the Soviets were going to come west on the next train : , The Air Force was particularly interested : escape routes for aircrew and so on . |
| 17 | A campaign to prevent the desecration of the holy mountain was inevitably going to receive support from the Catholic Church . |
| 18 | But his first job is to assemble a side before attempting to win promotion at the first attempt . |
| 19 | While difficult to prove , the development of such hypotheses at least indicates that researchers are attempting to justify reliance on the thrifty genotype to explain variation in non-insulin dependent diabetes frequency . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | Israel is attempting to recreate part of the Hula wetlands , drained in the 1950s to create arable land for farming . |
| 22 | Now , we 're working on language , now , but because a question turns up every year on paper one , to do with education , we 're going to be considering education , and we 're going to consider education in the broadest possible way , and that is , how do we know things . |
| 23 | These artists clearly stand close to the Pioneers and are attempting to adapt black-figure to the new movement , with some success : crowded compositions , figures overlapping each other or the borders or cut off by them , vigorous drawing with rather slap dash incision ; but the elaborate fore shortenings and musculature are not much attempted and do not come off very well . |
| 24 | He will not actually begin treatment of any sort until he is convinced that you are completely comfortable , both with the concept as a whole and with what is going to take place during the particular session . |
| 25 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 26 | Amnesty International has asked the Government on many occasions to lift those measures which place obstacles in the path of asylum seekers attempting to gain access to the refugee-determination process . |
| 27 | Although they were perfectly competent people and good at their jobs , they were never going to become part of the new culture which we have been trying to design for the Storehouse group . |
| 28 | What chance the ICC meeting of 2020 being in Harare , with England 's delegates struggling to justify retention on the full Test panel ? |
| 29 | It seemed that the whole country had gone mad clamouring to put money into the new transport system which was destined to make fortunes for its investors . |
| 30 | She was beginning to lose control beneath the feather-light touch of his fingers against her cheek and eyes . |