Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 2 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 3 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | The question is , for the last three years , who 's been helping to look after Mummy ? |
| 5 | ‘ At the moment , I am struggling to take in what it all means to me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am celebrating 10 years in management today and I am struggling to think of a worse away performance . ’ |
| 7 | Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning . |
| 8 | Manufacturers and specialists are struggling to respond to constantly changing requirements , he said . |
| 9 | NATO 's politicians and defence planners are struggling to agree on what threats Europe now faces and on what sort of common defences it should have in future . |
| 10 | Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs . |
| 11 | But when hospitals are struggling to stay within budgets such initiatives are not given a high priority . |
| 12 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 13 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 14 | While she had been speaking , the dogs had been struggling to get through the narrow crack of open door . |
| 15 | I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs . |
| 16 | In this respect , a famously offensive passage by Rousseau on the education of girls may be seen as , after all , no more than realistic for period and place : recommending that girls be taught to break off games they are enjoying to return to work without complaint , he writes : |
| 17 | ‘ I am dying to play at Wembley , ’ admitted Owers . ’ |
| 18 | We live in a ‘ market economy ’ and many one time ‘ command economies ’ are endeavouring to change to the same arrangements . |
| 19 | More frequent medical examinations would not help reduce the risk ; the tests currently available that might indicate , for example , whether an increased coronary risk does or does not exist , themselves carry a risk that exceeds that which we are endeavouring to protect against . |
| 20 | People are dying to get in here now . |
| 21 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 22 | The Joint Working Party on Flexible Training has been meeting to consider in detail the arrangements for part time training at senior registrar level and the need for a formal scheme for other grades . |
| 23 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 24 | The demonstrators held banners demanding both the secession of Georgia from the Soviet Union and the full integration of the Abkhazian republic , which had itself been seeking to secede from Georgia and to resume the union republican status it had enjoyed from 1921 until 1931 . |
| 25 | Cynewulf was slain in 786 by a rival aetheling , Cyneheard , the brother of the former king , Sigeberht , whom he had been seeking to expel from Wessex ( ASC A , s.a. 755 ) , and succeeded by Beorhtric . |
| 26 | En route for Baghdad he met Mitterrand in Paris on Jan. 11 , EC foreign ministers and also Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar ( who had been seeking to mediate on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement ) in Geneva later that day , and King Hussein of Jordan in Amman that evening . |
| 27 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 28 | ‘ Something I 've been wanting to do for quite some time . |
| 29 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 30 | yes , Casey there 's something I 've been wanting to say to you . |