Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 2 | DESPAIR : Many girls are too scared to ask for help struggling to cope with conflicting cultures |
| 3 | She split up with her husband some months ago and is now struggling to cope with two young children while facing continual abuse . |
| 4 | Matt Williams seized on some poor Cubs pitching to drive in four of the Giants runs and Will Clark lifting his series batting average to .625 when he reached base on three of his four at-bats . |
| 5 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 6 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 7 | Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost . |
| 8 | She was still struggling to adjust to this love , this , the biggest happening of her life . |
| 9 | The Laboratory is catering to demand for local chips from Taiwanese Sparcsystem builders such as Tatung Electronics Co , Datatech Inc , Twinhead Inc , Sampo Inc and Chicony Inc . |
| 10 | The Women 's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote . |
| 11 | Keeping up permanent co-ordination between personality and outer appearance is as oppressive as never daring to appear in public without a set of fully matching clothes and accessories . |
| 12 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
| 13 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 14 | The sad fact is that the vast majority are failing to realise their evangelistic potential , preferring to concentrate on spiritual nurture of the existing group members . |
| 15 | We have , on the one hand , the career ecclesiastic , the planner and man of an essentially legalistic mind , and , on the other , the religious enthusiast who takes no thought for the morrow , preferring to trust in divine power and provision . |
| 16 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 17 | A typical consumer reaction is summed up by a correspondent writing earlier this year in the New Scientist concerning trends in digital car radio design : ‘ Previously it was simple , while driving to cope with two big knobs and six decent-sized push buttons to get a useful selection of stations . |
| 18 | If you 're applying to work with three to five aged children then you write references |
| 19 | When Professor Fogelman undertook a survey of school work for the Speaker 's Commission , he collected a most eclectic list of topics which teachers proffered as contributing to work in this field . |
| 20 | I find myself being another son — a good son , courteous and thoughtful , holding doors open , appearing to defer to all her wishes . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) To require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 22 | ( 4 ) To require any other person ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 23 | It will have been noted that , not content with imposing upon themselves the task of ruling through the tendering of advice , which might have been thought difficult enough , the British took upon themselves in Northern Nigeria the even more difficult task of ruling without actually appearing to rule at all — an undertaking whose very absurdity only emphasizes its interest . |
| 24 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 25 | The unfortunate Met Officers all over Bomber Command had plenty of explaining to do during that summer , as the weather was unusually bad . |
| 26 | As I recalled , storms sprang up rapidly about the Swiss lakes , appearing to arrive from all corners of the sky at once . |
| 27 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 28 | Whatever his views on the subject , Labour 's Scottish leader is not in the market for appearing to waltz to any tune called by his Nationalist counterpart . |
| 29 | Whilst resolving to stay at independent as possible , I contacted ACET who I knew provided practical care at home . |
| 30 | This reflects the expansion of the use of computers from mass storage and number crunching to take in all forms of human communication . |