Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will introduce rebates for small businesses to protect those who are setting up in business or struggling to stay in business . |
| 2 | So does deliberately wetting the carpet or shouting angrily at mother , or refusing to go to bed . |
| 3 | In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent . |
| 4 | Women should have no sexual desires whereas men should be insatiable ; if women get out of line by expressing autonomous desire or refusing to cater to men 's , they will be censured . |
| 5 | But if you have to choose one market and you 're producing for or looking to sell to TV , then MIP-TV is probably the better place . |
| 6 | A bitch will alter depending on whether she is in season , in false pregnancy or waiting to come on heat . |
| 7 | Queueing or having to wait in shops is disliked ; so are certain kinds of shops — in some the large supermarket , and in some the small corner shop . |
| 8 | The boredom was broken only by bayoneting rats , bailing more water out of the trench or having to listen to Tommy repeat the same old melodies on a now rusty mouth-organ . |
| 9 | By fundamental barriers we mean those difficulties , which usually arise from a person 's personal circumstances such as lack of money or having to look after dependants . |
| 10 | The most common cause for solicitors having to claim on their professional indemnity insurance in personal injury work is the missing of time limits and allowing cases to become statute barred , either by failing to issue in time or failing to serve in time . |
| 11 | Er we are not required or intending to look at objections which have been submitted on other aspects of the structure plan . |
| 12 | As they munched hungrily he learned how Tommy at the age of eighteen had been given the choice of two years at His Majesty 's pleasure or volunteering to fight for King and country . |
| 13 | There are now many sociological studies of the disadvantages women face in particular situations , from problems in particular places of employment , to seeking health care , or trying to participate in party politics . |
| 14 | Giving , or offering or agreeing to give to persons in their capacity as investors or potential investors advice on the merits of their purchasing , selling , subscribing for or underwriting an investment , or exercising any right conferred by an investment to acquire , dispose of , underwrite or convert an investment . |
| 15 | This month the clergy forced the hierarchy to issue a letter requesting ethnic Hungarians to stay in Transylvania and work for change rather than seeking to flee to Hungary . |
| 16 | Suicide , when someone decides to take their own life by one means or another , rather than waiting to die through illness or accident , is not the same as euthanasia which may be defined as assisted death and which is a subject beyond the scope of this book . |
| 17 | An unemployed lift engineer 's mate , Darren Webb , 25 , of Colchester , also appreciated the opportunity to talk to people about the various training and job schemes available rather than having to rely on leaflets . |
| 18 | Novell Inc has upgraded NetWare Lite for MS-DOS and Windows 1.1 by improving Windows support : users can now run NetWare Lite and Windows concurrently , and can manage the network from within Windows , rather than having to exit to MS-DOS for their network management . |
| 19 | The decision to press ahead with new builds on a large scale was based on Provincial 's conviction that it could reduce its losses if given the freedom to operate cost-effective diesel-mechanical rolling stock , allowing shorter but more frequent trains , than having to take on InterCity 's weary cast-off locos and hauled stock . |
| 20 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 21 | Rather than continuing to attempt to police the whole world , they looked for a tighter unity of the formal Empire . |
| 22 | It all helps to get your eye in and is far better than trying to rely on memory . |
| 23 | ‘ It was wrong , I know , but , as I said , it was easier than trying to explain about Paul , and , to be perfectly honest , no one ever mentioned David to me after he 'd gone . |
| 24 | Lucien could imagine nothing worse than trying to eat in front of these people . |
| 25 | Adopting a hierarchical standpoint and preferring to speak in terms of ‘ life ’ rather than ‘ motion ’ , Plotinus regarded time as an intermediate between eternity ( or the higher soul that contemplates eternity ) and the motion of the universe which reveals time as the ‘ life ’ ( or creative power ) of ‘ soul ’ . |
| 26 | Immatures best told from other large immature gulls by distinctive shape of bill , heavy and appearing to droop at tip . |
| 27 | We sat in the Club drinking iced drinks and listening to talk of England , we went to dinner with various people — the Wentworths , the James ' , the Winters — we did all the things that we were used to doing . |
| 28 | It was a glimpse of the old Connors , fighting and refusing to walk down memory lane . |
| 29 | And he led the way to the jeep , waving to the people in the café , and pausing to chat to Maria as she served a tray full of beer , and to Abuelo as his granddaughter led him away by the hand . |
| 30 | The four khthons pushed them as if hurrying to return to safety behind the walls of the castle . |