Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he added , ‘ This will be the first time Ah 've visited the country , but havin' read Prescott myself Ah do n't think Ah 'm goin' to like the Spaniards and what they and the mestizos have done to it . ’ |
| 2 | The Government are helping to support the idea that coal is a pollutant but that nuclear power is green friendly and that gas is green friendly . |
| 3 | We should be helping to conserve the environment and discouraging the unnecessary destruction of trees . ’ |
| 4 | Shortly before this , the GCC foreign ministers had met in Riyadh and issued a communiqué : ( a ) ‘ drawing attention to the threats issued by Iran against member states [ which ] … created a climate of tension … helping to shake the security and stability of the region ’ ; and ( b ) affirming ‘ the adherence of its member states to the policy of preserving the region 's neutrality and resisting any action liable to carry the Gulf into the cycle of international rivalry ’ . |
| 5 | Thus it might erroneously be said of the dog 's leaping to catch the ball that what I really see are just its movements , upon the basis of which I make a leap of faith to its inner , privately introspective , enjoyment . |
| 6 | As part of the campaign bidding to reverse the decision and stop up to 140 truckloads a day using roads to Teesside , a 7,033-name petition urging Government action will be presented to the Commons today by Richmond MP William Hague . |
| 7 | In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it . |
| 8 | Genesis took a rather unique way round the problem of replacing lost manpower by resolving to confine the writing and recording duties to the surviving three band members and taking on ‘ extra hands ’ for live performance . |
| 9 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 10 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 11 | We were endeavouring to develop the policy that would become the programme of a Labour Government who would take power in about 1990-91 and remain in office until about 1995-96 , by which time we would have the beginnings of the Trident programme . |
| 12 | In seeking to promote the realization and wholeness of human nature , we attempt to correct our early unsatisfactory experiences . |
| 13 | To Nkrumah it seemed that the British — and also the United States and France — were behaving in a devious and cynical fashion , pretending to uphold the UN but in reality sanctioning the separatist regime of Tshombe in Katanga . |
| 14 | Then , in 1989 , he caused a storm over Wild Orchid , refusing to promote the film when Playboy published pictures of himself and his on-screen/off-screen lover Carre Otis in explicit moments from the film . |
| 15 | In an earlier development connected to the Camarena case , Rafeedie had refused to acquit Ruben Zuno Arce of conspiring to plan the kidnapping and killing of the DEA agent . |
| 16 | Practically torn apart by conflicting loyalties — and with Ross refusing to accept the idea that she might , somehow , be able to divide her life between the two continents — Laura had n't known what to do . |
| 17 | This , of course , does not preclude the buyer from refusing to accept the goods if when they arrive they do not comply with the contract . |
| 18 | Kaynak ( 1985 , p.15 ) defines the consumer movement ‘ as a movement seeking to increase the rights and powers of buyers in relation to sellers ’ and presents a useful historical account from the first cooperative society , founded in Scotland in 1769 , to the present . |
| 19 | Employees are seeking to counteract the tedium and monotony of the highly specialised work patterns in mass-production by pressing for more integrated roles , requiring a wider range of skills and operations . |
| 20 | She made no sound but the tips of her taut and bloodless fingers dug into her temples as if seeking to sever the nerves that carried the message from ears to brain . |
| 21 | Penury , moral as well as physical , is signified in the Barton household when money is wanting to purchase the soap and brushes , black-lead and pipe-clay which had given the houseplace its cheerful look in more prosperous days . |
| 22 | But the ‘ Boks set so much more store on scrummaging , looking to destroy the opposition if they can , that they 're reluctant to change until they have to . |
| 23 | Although Downing Street is refusing to discuss the timing or scope of any reshuffle , other sources insisted that July was still the most likely date . |
| 24 | It is hoped this will attract customers wanting to avoid the costs and anxiety of development . |
| 25 | It is hoped this will attract customers wanting to avoid the costs and anxiety of development . |
| 26 | Though some reformers wanted to keep the social democratic welfare-oriented interventions of the state , all were united in wanting to free the production and distribution system from administrative meddling , incompetence and inefficiency . |
| 27 | The Lisnagarvey player was seeking to win the pairs and fours at Blackrock but was beaten in both semi-finals . |
| 28 | Newcastle-on-Tyne-based accounting software house Sage Plc is looking to tap the Windows and Mac markets with its revamped peer-to-peer MainLan system and the promised Mac version of its mid-range Sterling +2 system . |
| 29 | I ca n't , ’ Isabel stammered , not wanting to leave the hall while Guy was there . |
| 30 | One imagines him , when a small boy repeatedly refusing to leave the crease when found LBW . |