Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 At other times they may exist in competition , each endeavouring to gain influence in a third area .
2 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 .
3 The Chandlers may be looking to move house in the next year or so .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 But his first job is to assemble a side before attempting to win promotion at the first attempt .
6 Gray explained his decision in terms of wishing to exert influence over the next generation of black leaders , to earn a higher salary , and to spend more time with his family and his local Baptist church .
7 Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate .
8 Personnel of the Operation Life-Line Sudan programme had on March 31 been forced by fighting to leave Bor for the second time in two weeks , although some 6,000 malnourished children were being fed from that distribution point .
9 That is why his canonisation of the equally versatile Jeff Koons — ‘ a person who is trying to lead art into the twenty-first century ’ — carries such conviction .
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