Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 3 | Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs . |
| 4 | In my first ten years of headship over 100 families used the service which the school provided , often returning to share with the group the progress which had been made and to comment on the ways in which their children had responded to the advice they had been given . |
| 5 | ( a ) Appointment The court has a positive duty to appoint a guardian ad litem in the following proceedings unless satisfied that this is not necessary in order to safeguard the child 's interests ( s41 ) : ( i ) application for a care or supervision order ; ( ii ) direction to investigate under s37 when an interim care order has been made or is under consideration ; ( iii ) application for discharge of a care order ; ( iv ) application for variation or discharge of a supervision order ; ( v ) application to extend a supervision order ; ( vi ) application to substitute a supervision order for a care order ; ( vii ) consideration of a residence order for a child in care ; ( viii ) application relating to contact with a child in care ; ( ix ) proceedings relating to emergency protection and child assessment orders ; ( x ) proceedings relating to secure accommodation orders ; ( xi ) application for leave to change the surname of a child in care ; ( xii ) application for leave to remove a child in care from the United Kingdom for a period exceeding one month ; ( xiii ) application for leave to permit the emigration of a child in care ; ( xiv ) appeal against the making or refusal to make , vary or discharge above orders . |
| 6 | Supposedly no danger existed of an individual being prosecuted for happening to disagree with the government but Jessup was understandably sceptical . |
| 7 | Sir : While tending to agree with the Archbishop of Canterbury 's social critique as reported in your paper ( 'Runcie attack on ‘ Pharisees ’ revives rift with Tories ' , 2 October ) , I find his reference to the Pharisees more than a little unfortunate . |
| 8 | Among the prime movers of La Rete , was Leoluca Orlando , who as DC mayor of Palermo had taken vigorous measures against the Mafia , but had alienated his own party hierarchy by refusing to work with the PSI and forming instead an alliance with the PCI and Greens . |
| 9 | Internationally , the industry is seeking to work with the World Health Organisation , the European Commission and other regional authorities to develop practical alcohol policies . |
| 10 | It was left to the Glasgow Hillhead MP , George Galloway , at a Scotland United fringe meeting to dissent with the euphoria over the severed links to the Scottish National Party and to question the leadership strategy . |
| 11 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
| 12 | After all , the theist is seeking to conform with the verification principle and is listing observations which count for or against God 's existence . |
| 13 | At the outset the church needs to identify the geographical area or kind of people it is seeking to reach with the gospel . |
| 14 | The council , the local housing authority , seeking to comply with the duty imposed on them by section 65 of the Housing Act 1985 to make accommodation available , offered him the tenancy of a sixth-floor flat . |
| 15 | This growing discontent has been symbolized by Koreans refusing to comply with the stipulation that all aliens resident in Japan for any length of time have to be re-registered as aliens and fingerprinted at regular intervals , and carry alien registration cards with them at all times . |
| 16 | No one can force you to undergo a medical examination ( although if the contract provides for one , you will risk serious disciplinary action by refusing to comply with an order to go for a check-up ) . |
| 17 | JULIAN COPE 's eagerly-awaited ‘ Jehovakill ’ LP has run into trouble , with pressing plants refusing to deal with the album because of its controversial title . |
| 18 | I 'll not be wanting to live with a man what 's too proud to take a helping hand from someone as was like our own son , and that 's a fact . ’ |
| 19 | But why ( if it were not for the fact that one is a Christian ) should one be wanting to stay with the experience of women within the biblical tradition ? |
| 20 | Eventually , Germany was led by ‘ a small group of powerful industrial , financial , and agrarian monopolists tending to coalesce with a group of party hierarchs into one single bloc disposing of the means of production and the means of violence ’ ( Neumann 1944 , p. 634 ) . |
| 21 | In August Göring told Lipski that certain anti-German incidents along the Polish border were poisoning the atmosphere and that Poles were conspiring to interfere with the work of the League in Danzig . |
| 22 | The British forthwith addressed themselves to attempting to cope with the axiom nearer home . |
| 23 | My question to Mr which he might like to comment on in his his summing up , is we 've heard about the forthcoming meeting which you 're going to arrange with the district council 's , how soon would you be able to make progress ? |
| 24 | Careful analysis of the shareholding structure is therefore required before deciding to proceed with a Court Scheme . |
| 25 | You 're going to meet with an accident , Mr Chan , and so is your son . |
| 26 | that consultation , they were waiting to meet with the county er |
| 27 | He has remarkably little choice of action or initiative if he is going to comply with the flight manual and his company 's operations manual and at the same time carry out an economic flight . |
| 28 | You were going to help with the woman . |
| 29 | She hoped it did n't sound too false ; what on earth was she going to do with a puppy . |
| 30 | ‘ What you going to do with a degree in history ? ’ his mother asked him when he graduated with a first . |