Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough were portrayed as extravagant young upstarts ( the club had only been in the Football League since 1899 ) , and Sunderland were reproached for daring to ask for such a sum . |
| 2 | For daring to come at all , she was cut from the Kirov team . |
| 3 | Whatever his views on the subject , Labour 's Scottish leader is not in the market for appearing to waltz to any tune called by his Nationalist counterpart . |
| 4 | The Dons are anchored at the bottom of the Premier League after crashing to defeat in all three opening matches . |
| 5 | The Dons are anchored at the bottom of the Premier League after crashing to defeat in all three opening matches . |
| 6 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 7 | Waldo Salt , who wrote the completed screenplay of Midnight Cowboy , had been blacklisted in 1951 after refusing to testify on Communist affiliations before the HUAC . |
| 8 | Sloosh twice a day after brushing to get to all the areas your toothbrush ca n't reach and make your mouth a fresh , clean , plaque-free zone . |
| 9 | Expectation about becoming queen helped give Sophia a powerful interest in her last years , but she was denied her chance , dying 8 June 1714 after hurrying to shelter from sudden rain during a walk in the palace gardens at Herrenhausen . |
| 10 | Former Scotland captain Rioch , 44 , has been barracked by fans at the Den for much of a disappointing campaign after failing to build on last season 's success of reaching the promotion play-offs . |
| 11 | But after failing to play in that , he revealed : ‘ I 've hurt the ankle again , and I do n't know when I 'll be back . ’ |
| 12 | Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers . |
| 13 | Now , you know , behaviour that 's visible to college is behaviour which the college starts to think about wanting to regulate in some way . |
| 14 | It is not even as though the Government have adhered to their own reasons for refusing to act on this in the past . |
| 15 | Ironically Tory MEPs may secure a better working relationship with their Westminster cousins than the Labour party , thanks in part to the respect the Tory MEPs have won for refusing to buckle under Thatcherite pressure over European union . |
| 16 | They were protesting against the dismissal of an estimated 15,000 Albanians , since the imposition of Serbian direct rule , for refusing to work under permanent police supervision or to sign compulsory pledges of loyalty to Serbia . |
| 17 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 18 | What I shall want to argue is that their position is caught up in a circular argument : the only reason one could have for wanting to stand in this kind of relationship to biblical women is that one is Christian , but these writers never tackle the prior question as to whether feminism is in fact compatible with Christianity , such that one should want to stand in relationship to biblical women . |
| 19 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 20 | The unfortunate Met Officers all over Bomber Command had plenty of explaining to do during that summer , as the weather was unusually bad . |
| 21 | On the one hand , a school curriculum must fulfil its primary function of serving to open to new ideas the minds of those who follow it . |
| 22 | Now we either are going in the direction this morning , or rather I think you 're being pressed to go in the direction of seeking to identify in due course , what is the preferred general location , and this undoubtedly is something you can hang your hat on . |
| 23 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 24 | [ … ] In the course of attempting to account for such market phenomena as quality differentiation , advertising , or markets in which few producers are to be found [ … ] neo-classical theories were led to conclusions which grossly misinterpret the significance of these phenomena . |
| 25 | Again , a person charged with attempted larceny can not be convicted of attempting to obtain by false pretences ( Rex v. Gallagher ( 1929 ) 21 Cr.App.R. 172 ) . |
| 26 | The minister is then faced with the task of keeking to see during that prayer whether there are enough potential listeners to justify proceedings with his prepared material . |
| 27 | The majority voting equilibrium is then the public goods quantity demanded by the person with median income , and — if tastes are unchanged — we should expect the level of spending to vary with median income . |
| 28 | Anxiety about the possibility of having to move into institutional care has a particularly strong influence on these perceptions — particularly for women . |
| 29 | Churchwarden at Middleton-St-George Christian Duff said : ‘ We will have to wait for someone who does not mind the possibility of having to move in five years time . ’ |
| 30 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |