Example sentences of "[v-ing] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It addresses both health and social services but is disappointing in treating both in traditionally separate fashion ( see Twigg 's section on mainstream services ) rather than grappling with the emerging picture of multi-disciplinary support teams and the strengths and dilemmas of interagency working . |
| 2 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 3 | Both government and opposition are grappling with the awkward consequences of an upsurge of religious tension inspired by militant Hindu claims to a disused Muslim mosque on a site believed to have been Lord Rama 's birthplace . |
| 4 | Of the other contributors , some expressed outrage , some were more optimistic , but I believe that these views of Cornall , Lawton and Hewlett typically reflected professional concerns of curriculum developers and teachers , especially those grappling with the persistent problems of how to implant enlightened ideas into a traditional subject-based curriculum . |
| 5 | It is astonishing that health ministersn now grappling with the financial disasters of the NHS internal market further down the line , should be so complacent in the early stages of their much-vaunted mixed economy of care . |
| 6 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 7 | This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | WHO said ‘ For too long this country … has been ready to settle for borrowing money abroad to maintain our standard of life , instead of grappling with the fundamental problems of British industry . |
| 9 | No longer ‘ hidden from history ’ women artists and art historians have , over the past decade , been grappling with the thorny question of the feminine aesthetic . |
| 10 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 11 | The essential differences remain the same as last year : whaling nations such as Japan , Norway and Iceland [ which withdrew from the IWC at the start of the meeting — see ED 59/60 ] accuse those opposed to whaling on largely ethical grounds , including the UK and US , of : i ) misinterpreting the charter of the IWC , which was set up to regulate and sustain whale hunting , not to decide on the morality of whaling as such ; and ii ) interfering with the economic livelihoods of whaling communities . |
| 12 | Parliamentary sovereignty was felt to be compatible with the rule of law primarily because ‘ the commands of Parliament … can be uttered only through the combined actions of its three constituent parts ’ and that , ‘ unlike a sovereign monarch who is not only a legislator but a ruler , that is , head of the executive government , has never hitherto been able to use the powers of the government as a means of interfering with the regular course of law ’ . |
| 13 | Tailoring the extent of regulation to the particular circumstances aims to give protection where it is necessary without interfering with the efficient operation of the market where it is not , but it does so at the expense of adding to the complexity of the regulations |
| 14 | As for President elect Clinton 's oblique references to the asylum laws , one can only assume his administration will have no intention of interfering with the due processes of law in the US . |
| 15 | Councillor Rodgers said , ‘ They are interfering with the democratic process in this by-election and seeking to buy political influence with what amounts to bribes ’ , and noted the offer was personally embarrassing for him as he negotiated as a union official with the companies over workers ' pay and conditions . |
| 16 | Addition of a little silicone lubricant ( vacuum grease , DOW Corning Corp. , Midland , MI ) to the phenol-chloroform extraction mixture resulted in a tight interface that facilitated total recovery of the aqueous phase without interfering with the lower protein and organic phases . |
| 17 | Implications of Interfering With the Primary Control |
| 18 | If the landlord attempts to take counter measures ( eg by erecting lockable posts in some spaces and issuing keys to some of the tenants and not others ) he may face an action for interfering with the other tenants ' easements . |
| 19 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 20 | Although no extraneous gas is used , CAMRA also frowns on the breather as interfering with the natural process of maturing and serving cask beer . |
| 21 | But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ? |
| 22 | In both cases the camouflage is interfering with the natural elements , but in one case it is attacking the whole shape , while in the other it is blotting out the appendages . |
| 23 | The sharp dualism that is proposed whereby acquisition and learning are two quite distinct processes would seem to force the conclusion that if you think carefully , choose your words , take your time before making your conversational contribution you can not communicate , or at any rate not very effectively , because you are interfering with the natural function of the acquired system . |
| 24 | We know something is interfering with the natural motion of the craft , but is this force making us accelerate , or is it stopping us falling under gravity ? |
| 25 | Although originating in the universities , the new grassland ecology did not become a formal academic discipline , and flourished best among botanists with a practical concern for the problems experienced by the farmers who were interfering with the natural vegetation of the area . |
| 26 | His voice now carried across the quay to the boat , interfering with the sombre piped music . |
| 27 | ‘ The site enables us to carry on our day to day business without interfering with the local community . |
| 28 | All this can be done without interfering with the operational or planning processes currently under way in the organization . |
| 29 | The duty of external non-intervention prohibits States from interfering with the valid performance of treaties that do not affect their own rights and obligations . |
| 30 | The emphasis should be on supporting and protecting your own jumper and not illegally interfering with the opposing jumper . |