Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | DARING TO SEE LIKE A YES |
| 3 | lurching in the blink of an eye , daring to see like a yes . |
| 4 | While Bayfield said he was disappointed with the results , he was pleased to see the London W company returning to profit after a small loss in the first half . |
| 5 | There is not point arranging to play squash if you dislike the game , or vowing to go for a jog each day , if you hate running . |
| 6 | The broad Firth of Clyde runs north from the island , with Goat Fell on the east shore appearing to fall in a sheer drop into the sea , making ideal conditions for commando training . |
| 7 | The remainder of the day had passed almost enjoyably , with Jake and Shiona and little Kirsty appearing to behave like a happy little family . |
| 8 | So at this moment it 's as well to look at your present experience and see how you can help yourself to extend it , before applying to audition at a drama school . |
| 9 | Sometimes his route to the nearest safe place involved scrambling over loose rock , or entailed ladder climbing to escape from a stope , with his only source of light a guttering candle held in the hand , or stuck to his hat with a blob of clay . |
| 10 | There was a compact flowered sofa in one corner , and she sat on it , trying to find something absorbing to do in a hotel room that was deprived of any literature apart from the hotel menu and some self-congratulatory stuff about the hotel itself . |
| 11 | ( a ) Appointment The court has a positive duty to appoint a guardian ad litem in the following proceedings unless satisfied that this is not necessary in order to safeguard the child 's interests ( s41 ) : ( i ) application for a care or supervision order ; ( ii ) direction to investigate under s37 when an interim care order has been made or is under consideration ; ( iii ) application for discharge of a care order ; ( iv ) application for variation or discharge of a supervision order ; ( v ) application to extend a supervision order ; ( vi ) application to substitute a supervision order for a care order ; ( vii ) consideration of a residence order for a child in care ; ( viii ) application relating to contact with a child in care ; ( ix ) proceedings relating to emergency protection and child assessment orders ; ( x ) proceedings relating to secure accommodation orders ; ( xi ) application for leave to change the surname of a child in care ; ( xii ) application for leave to remove a child in care from the United Kingdom for a period exceeding one month ; ( xiii ) application for leave to permit the emigration of a child in care ; ( xiv ) appeal against the making or refusal to make , vary or discharge above orders . |
| 12 | Oakes , bidding to build into a British title contender this season , found McGrath in resilient mood , but referee Keith Garner got it right when he scored 40-38 for Oakes , who did n't lose a round . |
| 13 | Pair or group tasks will not stimulate worthwhile collaboration unless they engage children 's interest and involvement , and are sufficiently flexible and challenging to allow for a range of responses . |
| 14 | His gaze raked her body , returning to linger for a moment on her mouth . |
| 15 | Each candidate , by virtue of signing to enrol upon a programme of studies shall be deemed to have understood and accepted these regulations . |
| 16 | SOUTH Africa 's State President , Mr FW de Klerk , yesterday suffered the first serious blow to his reputation as the great reformer by appearing to acquiesce in a cover-up of political murders carried out by state agencies , including the police . |
| 17 | My memories of cardiac teaching rounds are of a dozen students queueing to listen to a murmur while the registrar stood at the end of the bed swinging a stethoscope and staring out of the window . |
| 18 | Therefore , refusing to proceed to a census point ( or a traffic survey being carried out on or in the vicinity of a road ) is now an offence under this section . |
| 19 | It seems , though , that even if you are being reasonable in refusing to agree to a change , that does not necessarily mean that it is unfair to push the change through and dismiss you because of your reluctance to go along with it . |
| 20 | One covenant which far too frequently causes legal problems concerns the reasonableness ( or otherwise ) of a landlord in refusing to consent to a tenant assigning his leasehold interest to another person . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , I can understand you not wanting to go into a hostel , but from what you 're saying , a flat 's the sort of thing you want , is n't it ? ’ |
| 22 | Even so , I find the Christchurch trebles less robust here than in the choir 's previous Byrd discs , tending to remain within a limited dynamic range , even in the more laudatory Latin Motets . |
| 23 | When we redesigned the bathroom in our Victorian terrace , we fitted a shower in one of the bedrooms , to allow dismantling and fitting to proceed at a more leisurely pace . |
| 24 | It is the defendant 's case that the plaintiff was at all times , pushing to proceed as a matter of urgency on the deal . |
| 25 | ANY SERENITY MOONCHILDREN wanting to write to a real cosmic far-out gal , get scribbling ! |
| 26 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 27 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 28 | Near-by , Pipkin and Dandelion were pretending to feed on a patch of scrub . |
| 29 | So the membrane then hyperpolarizes , but the stimulus is still present , and that 's tending to lead to a depolarization , so we get then this circle of membrane depolarization followed by hyperpolarization , but it 's the calcium activated K channels which are tending to restore the membrane potential to negative values . |
| 30 | The Partnership Programmes began to appear in 1978 , tending to conform to a standard pattern . |