Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in South Wales , it is not ali enlightenment since while Mid and South Glamorgan are positively pro-rail neighbouring Gwent turns its back on rail projects , preferring to invest in roads . |
| 2 | Whereas childless people in the past sometimes needed counselling to come to terms with their childlessness , the current situation is more complex . |
| 3 | Despite an increase of 8.5% in the public subsidy for national museums in 1991–92 , most are still struggling to come to terms with the squeeze imposed on their budgets by the Treasury over the past few years . |
| 4 | He was still struggling to come to terms with the disappointment of missing the ride on Cool Ground . |
| 5 | The 50-year-old actress is struggling to come to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her . |
| 6 | Mrs Hall , 75 , revealed that despite Judith 's brave face , she is still struggling to come to terms with the betrayal . |
| 7 | Dawn Wright , 23 , of Hollywell , who is still struggling to come to terms with her tragedy , believes the burglars must have known who she was . |
| 8 | Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong . |
| 9 | ( b ) Counteract the tendency for the most able craftsmen preferring to work as sub-contractors . |
| 10 | RELATIONS between the British Medical Association and Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , reached a fresh low last night , as doctors ' leaders accused him of appearing to renege on promises that patients ' drugs would not be cash-limited under the Government 's National Health Service plans . |
| 11 | The applied ethics strand is represented by a unit concerned with moral problems relating to conflict between persons , groups and societies . |
| 12 | The applied ethics strand is represented by a unit concerned with moral problems relating to conflict between persons , groups and societies . |
| 13 | Leavin' me ter do all the dirty work , ’ she wailed , appearing to burst into tears . |
| 14 | The number of mature students returning to study after years of work or undertaking retraining programmes in the colleges has grown and is likely to continue to do so . |
| 15 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 16 | Equally vociferous are the parent-oriented Campaign For One Parent Families and the Family Rights Group , whose arguments for the rights of parents in the face of state intervention have contributed to the pressure which produced the recent DHSS Code of Practice relating to access to children in care . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was one , there was one last comment that I missed out there that it was the erm the permission to proceed with the product recommendations , you were wanting to proceed with recommendations but you had n't got the commitment off Steven in the first place so you were suggestion recommendations and what ! |
| 19 | Most of the above rules show stress tending to go on syllables containing a long vowel or diphthong and/or ending with more than one consonant . |
| 20 | A SHOPWORKER who claimed she was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays won a claim for unfair dismissal at a Hull industrial tribunal yesterday . |
| 21 | Difficult meeting as some Social Workers are refusing to work with colleagues and have taken steps to frustrate the function of the Area Team . |
| 22 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 23 | Nowadays wanting to work on Saturdays and I said right I 've had enough Friday . |
| 24 | After four years of rigorous quality control , only beans and chilies have been found unfit to eat , copper and molybdenum tending to concentrate in leaves and stalks rather than fruits . |
| 25 | Thompson and West in a study of preferences for sheltered housing which included a sample of people of all ages who suffered from rheumatism and arthritis , found among these respondents ‘ a strong feeling of not wanting to impose on relatives ’ ( Thompson and West , 1984 , p. 318 ) , and the older respondents were even less willing than the younger to consider the option of being cared for by kin . |
| 26 | The configuration of the shore has a large bearing on tide heights and range , tending to increase in bays and funnel-shape inlets like the Bristol Channel and St Malo , near the Channel Islands , in France . |
| 27 | Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and , incidentally , deceives no one else for long . |
| 28 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 29 | She was always the outsider , refusing to conform to traditions , obstinate and impudent . |
| 30 | Holden Caulfield and Lucy Snowe have both been rejected by their societies ; Holden for refusing to conform to standards which he considers ‘ phoney ’ , and Lucy for voicing her Protestant beliefs in a strong Catholic community . |