Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Miller is one of a handful of cricket fanzines struggling to find a readership on the fringe of the mainstream of cricket consciousness . |
| 2 | Parties seeking to rule a country should be accountable to all the people of the country . |
| 3 | Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue . |
| 4 | Instead of assessing the feasibility of words combining to form a sentence and providing a syntactic representation for the result , a word grammar determines the feasibility of morphemes combining to create a word . |
| 5 | There are cases , however , in which the trustee is not addressed with a request , or in which no words purporting to constitute a trust are used at all . |
| 6 | It was a statement that summoned up some private vision they had of her , the simple words swelling to become a vehicle for all their feelings about her . |
| 7 | This year an advert in the local ‘ What 's On ’ magazine Venue brought forward a flood of graphic designers volunteering to design a leaflet and posters for the Film Week . |
| 8 | EAST Anglians hoping to catch a glimpse of the biggest fly-past for 40 years were left disappointed yesterday as rain and cloud conspired stopped the 149-aircraft spectacular from getting off the ground . |
| 9 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 10 | The story of the American expatriate who shipped over his water-bed and then had to spend months trying to find a landlord who would allow him to bring it into his property is a good example . |
| 11 | There seems to be general agreement in Oxfordshire 's educational establishment that parents wishing to assess a school should n't pay too much attention to broad brush statistics like those released today . |
| 12 | This is unlikely to deter parents wishing to start a family at a more mature age than usual . |
| 13 | Among the celebs busting to catch a glimpse of Nick 's end-of-the-pier nostalgia show were CLING POPPIE , JOHN from the NED 'S , SUEDE drummer SIMON , PAVEMENT , SEAN HUGHES ( cor , have n't seen him out for ages ) , ALAN and DAVE from the ROCKING BIRDS ( Hey ! |
| 14 | The section on Italian animals is particularly interesting to visitors intending to spend a day or two out of town . |
| 15 | PLANNERS hoping to build a £1m Somme Heritage Centre are expected to be given the green light at Ards Borough Council meeting tomorrow night . |
| 16 | As your parish priest , it is my duty to shield you from any overenthusiasm on the part of visitors hoping to catch a glimpse of a visionary . |
| 17 | Hamburger-flipping jobs ( ‘ McJobs ’ ) that pay the minimum wage ( $3.80 an hour in 1990 ) are fine for teenagers , but not for parents trying to support a family . |
| 18 | Organisations wanting to arrange a showing of the programme should contact CPR Essex on ( 0277 ) 226101 . |
| 19 | She said : ‘ After three years training to have a race taken away through no fault of my own was devastating . |
| 20 | Apologists wishing to exploit a revisionist history of science invariably stress the profoundly religious orientation of many prominent scientists . |
| 21 | We stood outside the factory and asked workers entering to sign a petition demanding a union . |
| 22 | They managed to avoid the panning reserved for contemporaries like Bogshed who were termed : ‘ Four twisted misanthropes trying to make a career out of sneering at people ’ by Dave Jennings in the NME . |
| 23 | In the process , it also creates much of the waste for which the industry has spent so many fruitless years trying to find a burial place . |
| 24 | that 's what I said to Ron , I mean I 've never known I ca n't remember the last time I when I used to work for Colin for ten years trying to get a holiday out of Colin was like trying to get blood ! |
| 25 | The policing of processions , marches , demonstrations and meetings of various sorts represents a considerable call on modern police resources , especially in the Metropolitan Police area of London , whose central location makes it particularly attractive to groups wishing to express a point of view in public . |
| 26 | The trouble is , however , that the linking of individual with group self-interest is not a sufficient incentive for smaller firms struggling to make a profit , nor indeed for large , profitable organizations . |
| 27 | Conditions seeking to confine a use within Class III , or other ‘ no nuisance ’ conditions may prove difficult to enforce if there are any difficulties in establishing at law that a nuisance is being caused . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Peter Lloyd , the Home Office junior minister , agreed that more powers for local authority inspectors were necessary , but to compel licensing of all breeders would place unnecessary restrictions on pet owners wanting to sell a litter . |
| 29 | As the Encyclopaedia points out , there are a number of clauses in common use in leases attempting to place a limitation on the landlord 's liability for misrepresentation , misdescription and non-disclosure , but fortunately ( from the tenant 's point of view ) many such clauses are ineffective . |
| 30 | Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted ; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished ; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot . |