Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 2 | Whereas childless people in the past sometimes needed counselling to come to terms with their childlessness , the current situation is more complex . |
| 3 | Despite an increase of 8.5% in the public subsidy for national museums in 1991–92 , most are still struggling to come to terms with the squeeze imposed on their budgets by the Treasury over the past few years . |
| 4 | He was still struggling to come to terms with the disappointment of missing the ride on Cool Ground . |
| 5 | The 50-year-old actress is struggling to come to terms with a series of disasters that have brought her life crashing round her . |
| 6 | Mrs Hall , 75 , revealed that despite Judith 's brave face , she is still struggling to come to terms with the betrayal . |
| 7 | Dawn Wright , 23 , of Hollywell , who is still struggling to come to terms with her tragedy , believes the burglars must have known who she was . |
| 8 | Feelings and emotions are examined in depth , and it is then that pupils can be seen struggling to come to terms with right and wrong . |
| 9 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 10 | In particular , they vary in the extent of their involvement with the very frail and housebound , some preferring to concentrate on provision for younger elderly people . |
| 11 | In a game of increasing thunder , he 's a welcome fork of lightning , sometimes appearing to thrive in spite of team-mates rather than because of them . |
| 12 | This is the chance against happening to hit upon haemoglobin by luck . |
| 13 | Appearing to agree in part with Mr de Klerk 's assessment of the meeting , the churchmen said they saw their role as ‘ facilitators to get negotiation going ’ . |
| 14 | I 'm dying to stand behind Geraldine in the dole queue |
| 15 | All these legislative changes have made it increasingly difficult for local authorities to avoid appearing to lurch from crisis to crisis . |
| 16 | The number of mature students returning to study after years of work or undertaking retraining programmes in the colleges has grown and is likely to continue to do so . |
| 17 | Bower-bird rolled and swooped to show off his flying skills before returning to land beside Cassowary on the branch . |
| 18 | Despite vowing to die in defence of Evangalista , in the early hours of Oct. 6 Noble surrendered unconditionally . |
| 19 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 20 | Donna was taken into foster care at the end of 1986 , and there seems little prospect of her returning to live with Margy in the near future . |
| 21 | Cut a thin slice of cake trimming to place on top of the head end to give extra height . |
| 22 | Equally vociferous are the parent-oriented Campaign For One Parent Families and the Family Rights Group , whose arguments for the rights of parents in the face of state intervention have contributed to the pressure which produced the recent DHSS Code of Practice relating to access to children in care . |
| 23 | By contrast , the Labour party has been silent about new technology , preferring to mutter about unemployment without putting forward detailed proposals as to what it would do about the problem beyond throwing public money at the dole queues . |
| 24 | She blamed herself for trusting him to wait , for not refusing to go to Sniffy without the van keys in her possession . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The other element of group violence is of course , if there are a group of people throwing bricks at the police , or chanting or swearing at people wanting to go to work from a picket line , the law , the criminal law is designed to prove guilt against an individual for an individual 's conduct according to the preordained laws , whether they be statute law or common law . |
| 27 | He thought , there is wanting to go to bed with someone , which is really just an erection ; and there is the kind of wanting which extends beyond the night into the day , the kind where you spend all day waiting , sometimes several days . |
| 28 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 29 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |
| 30 | Thus , in the Health Service , nurses , doctors and technicians are tending to increase in number at the expense of more strictly manual jobs in hospital cleaning , cooking and domestic work . |