Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each has their own schizoid features , Presley gorging on chocs and biscuits , Haley preferring to lapse into drugged sleep and oblivion , but both paralysed with terror of the world outside and indulging in dreams of the golden days when mummy and daddy were alive and all was right with the world . |
| 2 | DESPAIR : Many girls are too scared to ask for help struggling to cope with conflicting cultures |
| 3 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 4 | This would put applicants in a very false position , perhaps drive away very talented applicants who might think that there were fewer places available for them , but also to encourage people who might in fact be struggling to go to any university in the country , it might encourage them to apply and to have a reasonable expectation of success because their sporting abilities were outstanding , they would then be disappointed because they would not be admitted and if they were admitted at that level , they would probably have a very unfortunate time at Oxford . |
| 5 | Calcium chloride was used to speed up the hardening of ordinary Portland cement and to allow concreting to continue through cold weather without the threat of damage from frost . |
| 6 | She was still struggling to adjust to this love , this , the biggest happening of her life . |
| 7 | The Laboratory is catering to demand for local chips from Taiwanese Sparcsystem builders such as Tatung Electronics Co , Datatech Inc , Twinhead Inc , Sampo Inc and Chicony Inc . |
| 8 | He looked half determined , half afraid , as if I was a lion which he as assistant keeper was helping to escort from one zoo to another . |
| 9 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 10 | The sad fact is that the vast majority are failing to realise their evangelistic potential , preferring to concentrate on spiritual nurture of the existing group members . |
| 11 | We have , on the one hand , the career ecclesiastic , the planner and man of an essentially legalistic mind , and , on the other , the religious enthusiast who takes no thought for the morrow , preferring to trust in divine power and provision . |
| 12 | When Professor Fogelman undertook a survey of school work for the Speaker 's Commission , he collected a most eclectic list of topics which teachers proffered as contributing to work in this field . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) To require the person whose affairs are to be investigated ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) To require any other person ( a ) to produce documents appearing to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation , or account for their absence , and ( b ) to provide an explanation for any such document . |
| 15 | The unfortunate Met Officers all over Bomber Command had plenty of explaining to do during that summer , as the weather was unusually bad . |
| 16 | As I recalled , storms sprang up rapidly about the Swiss lakes , appearing to arrive from all corners of the sky at once . |
| 17 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 18 | Whatever his views on the subject , Labour 's Scottish leader is not in the market for appearing to waltz to any tune called by his Nationalist counterpart . |
| 19 | This reflects the expansion of the use of computers from mass storage and number crunching to take in all forms of human communication . |
| 20 | BUTCH REYNOLDS , the world 400m record-holder , is vowing to return to international athletics . |
| 21 | We leave NABS as part of a network of professionals endeavouring to move in new directions . ’ |
| 22 | And nobody seems to be itching to speak on this report . |
| 23 | Higher level knowledge can improve recognition performance by helping to choose between alternative characters . |
| 24 | Shiva used words like ‘ chap ’ now , and ‘ kiddy ’ , words used by Indians wanting to sound like true Brits , though he would not have done this once . |
| 25 | Most of the possible legal moves in a chess position have simple refutations ; refusing to go beyond those refutations should allow a machine to screen out enormous numbers of possibilities , and focus its evaluating time on just those moves about which there are serious questions . |
| 26 | You 're not going to hurt Mother Francis by refusing to go to this place she 's sending you . |
| 27 | While the engine was spooling up , igniting to go to full power , he saw the right-hand thrust-reverser warning-light flash on and off very quickly . |
| 28 | The snag is that many local managers are refusing to agree to this concession . |
| 29 | Reportedly he was chosen from a field of at least three candidates after two rounds of secret balloting ; commentators suggested that this bore out rumours of divisions within the Church between conservatives and reformers seeking to capitalize on greater freedom from state control by playing a more assertive role in society . |
| 30 | Often , conservative ex-communists , impatient radicals or politicians seeking to capitalize on popular discontent can give presidents a hard ride . |