Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same phenomenon is occurring with brokers ' research . |
| 2 | Apart from a cinema , there were no real forms of entertainment ; mixing with Servicemen 's wives would have been one of the few ways of passing the days . |
| 3 | Once a widow reaches age 60 , she has the choice of claiming retirement pension or of continuing with widows ' pension ( until 65 , when she no longer has a choice and will receive retirement pension ) . |
| 4 | There was to be the usual share of pain and difficulties which all families face : nursing sick children and elderly parents , for instance ; financial problems in the early days , coping with children 's temperamental difficulties and problems at school . |
| 5 | He said that he will be continuing with Mary 's work of dealing with residents ' worries and complaints — ‘ pointing them in the direction of the right person to help them ’ — and assisting them with official forms , etc . |
| 6 | The resolutions also call for more airtime for programmes dealing with women 's issues , and for the introduction of media education in schools . |
| 7 | But these findings are also tied in with assertions about social class differences in domesticity which abound in much of the literature dealing with women 's place in the family . |
| 8 | But despite its glamorous image of foreign travel , meeting and dealing with firms ' top executives , and making headlines in the financial press when the deal bursts onto the markets , you have to be very committed and prepared to work long and unsocial hours ( often at weekends ) and be comfortable dealing with people who are often under stress and , in consequence , rude . |
| 9 | There was no longer any carpet underfoot — merely drugget , a material he recalled from nineteenth-century novels dealing with servants ' quarters . |
| 10 | Myles looks like a kid Joe Strummer , guitar replaced by his low-slung bass , while singer Loz twists his guitar round stiffly , dealing with songs ' tricky arrangements . |
| 11 | The Act , it envisages , would contain provisions dealing with employees ' contractual rights ; the use of surpluses ; the necessity to maintain proper accounting records , file annual accounts and establish effective internal controls ; and an employer 's legal responsibility to fund a deficit and , in the event of the employer 's winding-up , for any deficit to be a priority debt on the company . |
| 12 | The role of psychotropic medication in such cases should be made clear to the patient , particularly where medication is only a means of assisting coping behaviour rather than dealing with patients ' fundamental problems . |
| 13 | The debate over mandatory fees continued throughout the 1970s with a report dealing with architects ' services from the Monopolies and Mergers Commission acting as a catalyst for eventual change . |
| 14 | Well I mean you know we 're not playing children 's ganging up games are we we know we 're dealing with peoples ' lives and families . |
| 15 | Geldart v Brown and Others concerns the problem of complying with drivers ' hours legislation ( here the AETR rules , not the broadly similar EEC rules ) . |
| 16 | One headmistress gives a pungent summary of the prevailing philosophy : ‘ Market forces are very dangerous when you are messing with children 's brains . ’ |
| 17 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 18 | A woman has no business tampering with men 's affairs , making a spectacle of herself because she 's not got the sense to keep quiet and listen to her solid respectable betters . |