Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfortunate Met Officers all over Bomber Command had plenty of explaining to do during that summer , as the weather was unusually bad . |
| 2 | Now we either are going in the direction this morning , or rather I think you 're being pressed to go in the direction of seeking to identify in due course , what is the preferred general location , and this undoubtedly is something you can hang your hat on . |
| 3 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 4 | [ … ] In the course of attempting to account for such market phenomena as quality differentiation , advertising , or markets in which few producers are to be found [ … ] neo-classical theories were led to conclusions which grossly misinterpret the significance of these phenomena . |
| 5 | The minister is then faced with the task of keeking to see during that prayer whether there are enough potential listeners to justify proceedings with his prepared material . |
| 6 | The majority voting equilibrium is then the public goods quantity demanded by the person with median income , and — if tastes are unchanged — we should expect the level of spending to vary with median income . |
| 7 | Anxiety about the possibility of having to move into institutional care has a particularly strong influence on these perceptions — particularly for women . |
| 8 | We got up every morning and went to our routine , boring and badly-paid jobs , some of us hoping , some of us dreading the advent of Mr Right : he who would relieve us from , God forbid , the tedium of having to rely on each other for company , comfort , support and stimulation . |
| 9 | The effect of having to rely on imported oil is of great significance for development . |
| 10 | These developments could avoid the present difficulties of having to go from one service to another in search for a solution to each of a multitude of problems . |
| 11 | They were both busy people , preoccupied with their work — Robyn with her supervisions and the completion of her PhD , Charles with the demands of his new job — and the thought of having to adjust to another partner , to study their interests and minister to their needs , wearied them in anticipation . |
| 12 | It accused the Government of failing to comply with European Community obligations to protect part-timers , 90pc of whom are women , from less favourable treatment than fulltimers . |
| 13 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 14 | Most have grown tired of trying to deal with rigid management , the country 's continually changing laws and the ban on repatriating rouble profits . |
| 15 | Although the above might seem a little onerous , remember that the problem it is addressing , that of parallel modification , is of great importance and the difficulty of trying to cope with parallel modification is reflected in LIFESPAN . |
| 16 | The distorted modes of communication which the individual has set up within himself , and between self and the outside world , as a result of fearing to express in public form certain wishes and impulses of an infantile polymorphously perverse character , can be unravelled with the analyst 's help . |