Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could eat her words , while denying with the maximum of emphasis that she was ever ‘ for turning ’ . |
| 2 | Pumping the flaps up to climb and re-trimming with the dinky roof-mounted trim wheels , I reduced power to Tony 's easy noise-abatement power of thirty inches and 2,000 rpm , subjugating the normal 750 feet-per-minute climb at 33 inches and 2,200 rpm in the cause of good neighbourhood relations . |
| 3 | Another is that no school is static , and both before and after the introduction of non-sexist materials will be grappling with a range of possibilities for each sex , rather than a unified ‘ role ’ . |
| 4 | This meant grappling with a panic that was like an asphyxiation . |
| 5 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 6 | As the cabinet 's toughest fighter ( and worst-dressed member ) , Mr Clarke knows how dishevelled he could look after grappling with a budget deficit forecast to be £50 billion ( $18 billion ) this year . |
| 7 | And nothing condemned a woman so swiftly to womanhood as grappling with a man . |
| 8 | In any case , Amiss 's mind was racing , grappling with a situation devoid of any rational explanation . |
| 9 | But they put their foot down when it came to maths and they caught me grappling with the colour scheme of a kestrel . |
| 10 | One can see him grappling with the difficulty in his poem-cum-essay ‘ The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm 's Son ’ , published in 1953 , the year before The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 11 | He told the court at Wakefield : ‘ I was grappling with the pit bull for about 10 minutes to get it off and I also got bitten . ’ |
| 12 | Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery . |
| 13 | TEACHERS are grappling with the appliance of science in the primary classroom . |
| 14 | There is a trace of the multiple overview of Cubism in the treatment of their faces ; for once Modigliani was experimenting in technique , not engaged in grappling with the secret of personality . |
| 15 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 16 | The laboratories are still grappling with the problem of large , flat screen TV . |
| 17 | He should be grappling with the problem of how to stay alive , but instead could think of nothing but the problem of Jess . |
| 18 | Lynn Eaton looks at how staff in one SSD are grappling with the problem |
| 19 | One corner of the Instrumentation and Control Board activities was concerned for weeks or months with grappling with the problem . |
| 20 | Other towns in Oxfordshire are still grappling with the problem . |
| 21 | [ what is ] apparent during this period is the bewilderment and confusion of many sections of the liberal intelligentsia in grappling with the immigration issue at the same time as they had difficulties in understanding the new elements of youth culture brought on by the emergence of what was in popular parlance being termed an ‘ affluent society ’ . |
| 22 | Looking back , I can see one of the porters grappling with the car door . |
| 23 | These strategies for grappling with the explanation of most liberal democracies ' stability do little to reduce the problems that Marxist theorists confront in coming to terms with an enduring political alternative to state socialism , and one which most Western Marxists seem to find preferable to the Stalinist forms of state socialism . |
| 24 | With unusual explicitness , he states the grounds and consequences of his approach , and in addition to grappling with the task of offering holist explanations , he addresses its epistemological corollaries . |
| 25 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 26 | At the time of the first interviews in June 1990 the authorities were grappling with the devolution of services to the units and the district 's attempt to come to terms with the new role of purchaser . |
| 27 | He was walking with a girl , a dark haired one with a red coat and white boots . |
| 28 | She was walking with a girl who was quite a problematic and attention-seeking sort of person . |
| 29 | And he was walking with a man of Levantine wealth whose demise would permit him , Hope , almost certain access to his fortune through marriage to its heir . |
| 30 | I HAVE some good news for the Prince of Wales , who was most concerned about Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten , right , walking with a stick during the royal visit . |