Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After extensive market research , the BTIS is to embark on a programme of promotion aiming to convert more non-buyers away from the red meat and chicken camps to turkey . |
| 2 | The context for this shift in direction was to be found in wider pressures to reduce state spending and , above all , levels of state borrowing to finance such expenditure . |
| 3 | The Authority spent a good deal of time trying to persuade such Boards to avoid deficits by raising tariffs to remunerative levels , but commercial disciplines were inevitably weakened by such dual responsibility and ad hoc decisions . |
| 4 | Spending a great deal of time trying to achieve these goals will be unproductive and frustrating . |
| 5 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 6 | I spend enormous amounts of time trying to develop this characteristic in my company . |
| 7 | I spend a great deal of time attempting to persuade such girls that rock climbing is a valid female choice for recreation and person development . |
| 8 | There is nothing like formation flying to reveal any handling nasties in an aeroplane . |
| 9 | For a moment , the centuries seemed to roll away , and she could visualise grim-faced men in chain-mail racing to answer some alarm , while women in wimpled head-dresses leaned down from the Gothic windows to bid them Godspeed . |
| 10 | Now can we be assured that Biffa are in fact going to do that same service , not turn up and say , you 're not allowed this , nothing to do with us . |
| 11 | There were , however , other and less hopeful signs that the French were not in fact going to make any substantial concessions . |
| 12 | Yorkshire proceeded to squander the final two doubles in a 6–3 win over the previously unbeaten Essex , and Hampshire went back on court needing to win all three doubles matches to secure the necessary 8–1 margin over Middlesex . |
| 13 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |