Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This existing history of ‘ miraculous ’ cures is just a hint of what may be available to the human mind struggling to find a way to greater self-help in coping with ill health and adversity , if only the vitally necessary ‘ faith ’ were more easily grasped and held on to . |
| 2 | If you do n't feel like phoning send an sae to Metro 1.4s Questions , Daily Mirror , Blackhorse Road , London SE99 7TY and we 'll send the questions to you . |
| 3 | Torrijos seized power four years later , vowing to put an end to what was perceived as a long era of national humiliation . |
| 4 | Thus , the TNCs protected their monopoly in technique while appearing to transfer the technology to local people . |
| 5 | Five minutes driving brings the traveller to Horn , an ancient fishing village lying in a slight recession in the coast , and then the road continues to Rorschach . |
| 6 | In some cases this only extends to personal or physical independence , but for many people ageing represents a threat to their independence in the much wider sense of losing control over how they wish to live their lives . |
| 7 | He remembered wanting to write a farewell to Piper . |
| 8 | There needs to be a facility whereby one is automatically informed that the entry at which one is looking has a cross-reference to it in another part of the dictionary , and whereby one is immediately given a display of this cross reference ( or all of them , if there are several ) if one wants to check it . |
| 9 | She picked up her suitcase and made her way along the aisle , pausing to inspect the damage to her legs . |
| 10 | I glimpsed Mathilda 's white face then ran into the gallery , pushing open the door to the solar . |
| 11 | ‘ Put your things in here for the time being , ’ she said , pushing open the door to the living-room . |
| 12 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 13 | It is as if one is seeking to give an answer to the question : What advantage does morality bring ? |
| 14 | For the ‘ middle classes ’ , then , heterogeneity of social origin must be added to heterogeneity of socio-economic position as another factor tending to render problematic any clear ‘ class ’ designation ( or in other words tending to reduce the degree to which the term ‘ middle class ’ identifies a pertinent social collectivity ) . |
| 15 | It 's usually the parents not wanting to repeat a joke to the daughters |
| 16 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the sympathy that he has expressed , and I share his sense of encouragement , brought about by the action taken by individual members of the community and groups which are seeking to call an end to the terrible experiences that we have all had . |
| 17 | While much previous research by geographers , economists , sociologists and planners has tended to focus on the cases and consequences of industrial decline in the conurbations of northern Britain and London , this research attempts to break new ground both in examining the cause of economic growth and prosperity in southern England and in seeking to assess the extent to which the benefits of growth have been equally shared amongst different segments of the population in such areas . |
| 18 | The University of Strathclyde is seeking to appoint a successor to Professor Sir Graham Hills , who retires from the office of Principal and Vice-Chancellor in 30 September 1991 . |
| 19 | ‘ We are looking to get the ball to Alan |
| 20 | ‘ Besides , he 's wanting to take an army to England , to overthrow Henry Tudor and set the Duke of York on his rightful throne . |
| 21 | For example , in Figure 9.6 there is no force acting to push the parcel to the east : the only forces are gravity , which keeps the parcel on the grid , and the force which propels the parcel polewards . |
| 22 | ‘ A significant element of the new initiative will be the production of a Development Plan , the introduction of new world tournaments and a comprehensive manual to guide those seeking to introduce the sport to non-bowling countries . ’ |
| 23 | If the Court of Session could make an order of the same nature , it was better to resort to its jurisdiction ; if it would not make such an order , the English court would hesitate the more before seeking to make an order to be effective in Scotland . |
| 24 | At the lower end of the job market , in the middle management to senior supervisory positions , employers are however more likely to consider with favour candidates with good track records in their own countries seeking to make the transition to working oversees . |
| 25 | The Bulgarians sombrely suggest that she is a dead mother looking for her own baby , while the Spanish say she is the GHOST of an aunt or grandmother , looking to make a gift to her descendants . |
| 26 | The Arsenal manager , facing up to the worst sequence of League defeats at Highbury for 16 years , is refusing to become a hostage to the reputations of what he calls ‘ name players ’ . |
| 27 | You goin' give no trouble to Miguelito . |
| 28 | ‘ Is burying yourself under the covers going to provide the answer to your problems ? ’ he asked sceptically . |
| 29 | Moreover , by November 1983 American soldiers had gone into action in the Middle East , as the major element in a United Nations force attempting to open a way to peace in the Lebanon , long battered by civil war ; and in the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada , where , following a coup within the island 's Marxist-dominated government , the Reagan Administration — fearful of Cuban activities — had sent in the Marines , an action condemned by the United Nations . |
| 30 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |