Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DESPAIR : Many girls are too scared to ask for help struggling to cope with conflicting cultures |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As I recalled , storms sprang up rapidly about the Swiss lakes , appearing to arrive from all corners of the sky at once . |
| 6 | This reflects the expansion of the use of computers from mass storage and number crunching to take in all forms of human communication . |
| 7 | We leave NABS as part of a network of professionals endeavouring to move in new directions . ’ |
| 8 | Higher level knowledge can improve recognition performance by helping to choose between alternative characters . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We have Companies who are making high levels of profit , who are still shedding jobs or refusing to invest in new jobs ’ . |
| 12 | I fully endorse the sentiments of President Tom Douglas in condemning Companies who are making high levels of profit and who are still shedding jobs or refusing to invest in new jobs . |
| 13 | It would be startling if the mere fact that the defendant invoked a Community law defence , with sufficient substance ( but no more ) to escape rejection under the narrowly drawn principle of acte clair , should be capable of itself of excluding this useful jurisdiction , thus providing encouragement to those seeking to profit from law-breaking activities to adopt this method of prolonging what may prove to be a source of illicit profit . |
| 14 | A party seeking to appeal across republican boundaries and to challenge the CPSU on an all-union basis had yet to emerge . |
| 15 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 16 | ANC leaders including its president Nelson Mandela had previously made similar allegations against the government , refusing to continue with constitutional negotiations until it acted to halt the violence [ see p. 38178 ] , which was reported to have claimed some 2,000 lives over 10 months to the end of June . |
| 17 | INVESTORS looking to invest in US-quoted companies can now use the services of the largest US discount execution-only stockbroking service , Charles Schwab . |
| 18 | They were protesting against the dismissal of an estimated 15,000 Albanians , since the imposition of Serbian direct rule , for refusing to work under permanent police supervision or to sign compulsory pledges of loyalty to Serbia . |
| 19 | Earning money was rated more highly by students wanting to work in legal services than by the average student and London is selected by 59 per cent of them as the region they would most like to work in . |
| 20 | The more complex instructions , described in this section for interest , are therefore tending to disappear from modern computers . |
| 21 | Erm been tending to concentrate on specific things which you know stand a good chance of being on the paper , and even if they 're not will help you with others . |
| 22 | The Schneiderei is located at Gereonswall 8 in Eigelstein , a neighbourhood with many Turkish shops and resident artists tending to work in small flats rather than ateliers . |
| 23 | Mary Midgley is alone amongst prominent liberationists in refusing to truckle to moral theories that , as she sees it , unduly promote one aspect of the problem ( consequences for the utilitarians , the value of life for Regan ) at the expense of others equally important : |
| 24 | On the one hand , a school curriculum must fulfil its primary function of serving to open to new ideas the minds of those who follow it . |
| 25 | Pausing to listen for any sounds of activity before making her dash across to the cover of the fosse , she found herself automatically reciting part of the Litany to the Blessed Virgin : " Mother most pure , Mother undefiled , Mother most admirable , Mother of good counsel , Mother of our creator , Mother of our Saviour , Virgin most prudent , Virgin most venerable … mystical rose , Tower of David , House of Gold , Ark of the Covenant … " |
| 26 | Tuscany and Umbria are regions much beloved by artists , writers and those seeking to escape into peaceful surroundings . |
| 27 | There was sure to be a considerable though decreasing number of households to which the credit system was indispensable , and whose custom tradesmen must lose if refusing to accede to these terms . |
| 28 | Waldo Salt , who wrote the completed screenplay of Midnight Cowboy , had been blacklisted in 1951 after refusing to testify on Communist affiliations before the HUAC . |
| 29 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 30 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |