Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football : Hard times at Hartlepool : Jonathan Foster on a club struggling to escape from pervasive depression |
| 2 | Since Allison took over from Dennis Rofe , who walked out of the club refusing to work with Big Mal , Rovers have lost only once in the league and achieved three victories and a draw . |
| 3 | Brilliant , so , you , this is , this year , is this scholarship going to continue in future years or is it just a one off ? |
| 4 | Any fan trying to get from one end to the other would have to pass through this area and would be immediately arrested . |
| 5 | Cusps ( pockets ) filled with blood trying to flow in wrong direction preventing it passing through the valve and stopping backflow |
| 6 | Any licence holder wanting to open beyond those guideline hours will have to appear personally before the board to argue special circumstances . |
| 7 | DESPAIR : Many girls are too scared to ask for help struggling to cope with conflicting cultures |
| 8 | You could use error trapping to recover from this error , but it is better to check that the argument is not negative before using the SQR function . |
| 9 | The Liberal Democrats say the purchase of a London City Licence by a motorist wishing to drive into central London would entitle the driver to a ‘ Freedom of the City ’ pass which would give free travel to public transport in the central area and free car parking at out of centre park and ride sites . |
| 10 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 11 | The valleys will have nobody working at all , there 'll be no one paying insurances , no income tax , so where is the money going to come for future pensions for people right through the country . |
| 12 | The course is intended for students proficient in undergraduate chemistry wishing to specialise as environmental chemists and for those wishing to extend and apply their chemical education to the principals and practices of environmental control . |
| 13 | Griffin left the Turkish arena with his other eye beginning to swell after another fine performance which he won 9–7 but now faces his toughest test , a date with the championship doctor . |
| 14 | And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before . |
| 15 | The ancilliary workers have accepted 9 per cent , the doctors 8 per cent and certainly my own union is at the moment balloting to decide on industrial action over the 6 ½ per cent offered to Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers . |
| 16 | It has three main aims : the first is the democratic process of involving people in thinking , dealing , planning and playing an active part in the development and operation of services that affect their daily lives : the second relates to the value for personal fulfilment of belonging to a community : the third is concerned with the need in community planning to think of actual people in their relation to other people and the satisfaction of their needs as persons rather than to focus attention upon a series of separate needs and problems . |
| 17 | Advice and assistance in making a will can only be given to a client who is over 70 , or disabled or suffering from a mental disorder ( or a parent or guardian wishing to provide for such a person ) , or a single parent wishing to appoint a testamentary guardian . |
| 18 | Yet sometimes such suffering may be too much to bear , and is perhaps best dealt with by an elder attempting to return to former levels of less authentic but endurable adaptations to life . |
| 19 | Random inspections undertaken in England and Wales last year were said to have found more than half the sample failing to comply with statutory requirements . |
| 20 | Finally , clause 56 states : ’ Where an offence under this Part committed by a body corporate is committed with the consent or connivance of , or is attributable to any neglect on the part of , a director , manager , secretary or other similar officer of the body , or a person purporting to act in such a capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Chubby ’ Eliot and self had a bit of a dogfight for a while trying to get on each others ' tails as we were not certain the other was not a 109 until we saw the roundels . ’ |
| 22 | Actually , I missed some good ones in the couple of days ' holiday I took ; if I 'd just bothered to look at a single fucking news-stand after I left Stromeferry I 'd have seen this story starting to break about this guy — ‘ The Red panther ’ the tabloids decided on eventually — murdering these right-leaning pillars of the community . |
| 23 | In sweltering heat she walked around the edge of the vast parade ground pausing to chat to some of the 600 troops gathered in her honour . |
| 24 | Willy Russell 's story of a hair-dresser seeking to learn at any price via her reluctant and sozzled tutor continues to stand the test of time . |
| 25 | Erm so that 's not immediately but , in the first two or three weeks of next month going to turn into several hours of recording . |
| 26 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson 's galaxy of stars square up to the ‘ Milky ’ way tonight with their season threatening to disintegrate inside six days . |
| 27 | So was the ghostly passenger preparing to embark on another train journey as he had done many times during his life on earth ? |
| 28 | But then I am not an undergraduate student trying to cope with all the new concepts and processes needed for modern literary studies . |
| 29 | ‘ Is the residue going to amount to much ? ’ |
| 30 | WITH competition beginning to bite in industrial gas sales , British Gas suffered a drop of about £700 million in profits last year to about £1 billion on a historic-cost basis . |