Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At the top end , barns are competing with traditional country houses . |
| 2 | Since individual media are competing with one another this is , perhaps , hardly surprising ; but where much of the research is done under the auspices of joint committees representing agencies , advertisers , and media it is slightly frustrating that so little seems to have been achieved . |
| 3 | The larger agencies supplying secretarial and office staff in the metropolitan areas , primarily because they are competing with one another for scarce labour , are increasingly offering the sort of fringe benefits associated with employment . |
| 4 | I am an advocate of concentrating money market business rather than spreading it among a large number of banks ; so long as banks know that they are in competition it does not matter if they are competing with two or three others , or 50 : if they do not offer the best rate they will not get the business . |
| 5 | FELs are now a mature technology , and are competing with conventional lasers as tunable light sources . |
| 6 | In the East there are social problems on a much more basic level than in the West , and these of course are competing with cultural needs . |
| 7 | We are helping with some specific problems that will occur in the run-down , such as the expansion of the former military hospital at Dharan . |
| 8 | Do all that you can to encourage other people in your class who are struggling with certain subjects and activities . |
| 9 | Next time you are struggling with stubborn cables , try this easy way . |
| 10 | ‘ We know that hospital caterers are struggling with some severe economic constraints , ’ says Roden . |
| 11 | Much of the time we are reacting with unwanted stress because we are afraid of doing damage to our own self-concept . |
| 12 | A few Local Authorities are experimenting with new types of recycling schemes to encourage a greater reduction in the amount of refuse put into landfills . |
| 13 | In an attempt to improve the effective provision of intelligence to decision makers , some companies , particularly in the USA , are experimenting with various ways of developing a process of gathering information , analysing and interpreting the information and ensuring that it is used effectively in the decision-making process . |
| 14 | The scientists say they consider paclitaxel is too complicated to synthesise completely artificially and are experimenting with English yew leaf clippings . |
| 15 | France lifted energy taxes on biofuels last year and several cities are experimenting with RME-fueled buses . |
| 16 | Instead of more concrete , conjestion , pollution and unemployment , we are grappling with these issues at grass roots level . |
| 17 | I 'm getting cold again , and my feet are aching with all this walking . |
| 18 | Four and a half years later I am returning with three of my children and my husband . |
| 19 | ‘ Many people are dying with great indignity and with great suffering , ’ said John Oliver , general secretary of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society . |
| 20 | Breakfasts are sustaining with fresh bread , cold meats , cheese and coffee . |
| 21 | Berlin 's brightly lit streets are swimming with happy people . |
| 22 | Attempts to revive the buyout of United Airlines are meeting with little enthusiasm on Wall Street and a new bid — possibly with the support of Jay Pritzker , the Chicago financier — is unlikely to get off the ground before early 1990 . |
| 23 | The people who end up with detectors on the SSC will be benefiting from a huge American investment ( attempts to raise money abroad are meeting with little success ) and they will be in a position to dominate American particle physics for a decade , so such considerations carry some weight . |
| 24 | We are operating with fewer layers of management ; and we have reduced overhead and indirect positions by some 50,000 , while maintaining our tradition of full employment . ’ |
| 25 | If we are smoothing with repeated medians , the appropriate transformation can simply be applied to the smoothed values and new residuals calculated . |
| 26 | I am writing with open eyes |
| 27 | That are filling with burning ashes . |
| 28 | A further 44 per cent of all elderly people live only with a spouse and , as we saw in the last chapter , only about 14 per cent are living with others- ‘ non-spouses ’ . |
| 29 | I think that 's true of the women , but of course an awful lot of our young men erm come from all boys ' schools and quite a lot of our young women from all girls ' schools , so this is the first time , when they get to Oxford , that they are interacting with each other , on a day-to-day basis I should say , and I think that in itself will they are not sure how to act towards each other and there 's going to be confusions . |
| 30 | Szasz is putting the position at its most extreme , but I recognise the truth in what he is saying and , apart from his implication that the definers are acting with conscious deliberation , I think he is right . |