Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businessmen are banding together to bring to book those who illegally dump wagon loads of waste , and the Merseyside Development Corporation have backed the initiative with the introduction of video cameras to monitor the twilight activity . |
| 2 | In an exchange of letters Rothermere said he could no longer support a movement which was becoming increasingly to believe in dictatorship , anti-semitism and the corporate state . |
| 3 | He strolled up the long arcade , pausing frequently to peer in shop windows at the expensive goodies . |
| 4 | The ITGWU also intended doing its bit , announcing that 17 of its Cork branches would take part in a march from the National Monument to County Hall in support of Raybestos on the day the County Council was meeting there to decide on planning permission . |
| 5 | There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 7 | Pro-activeness means putting your energies into moving forward to stay on top and keep the competition below . |
| 8 | In particular , they have been censured for failing sufficiently to take into account the needs of local people . |
| 9 | She says it 's hard work having to think of other ways of getting around — having always to take into consideration the bus timetables — I ca n't arrange to meet friends unless there 's a bus at that time and coming home — leaving the pubs — I have to drink up quickly if I want to catch the last bus home . |
| 10 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 11 | Those who formulated the rules for admission to the College , who were afraid they might deter men from coming forward to train for membership of a still infant profession , limited the requirement for admission to an ability to read and write well — quite a severe restriction at the time — plus personal recommendation . |
| 12 | Her mam would say nothing , just sit there white-faced , cupping her hand over the latest bruise , not daring even to blink in case he said she was sleeping in God 's time when all he wanted was to raise his children decent . |
| 13 | The slog , however , is slow and the ghost of RPG is proving hard to lay to rest . |
| 14 | He bids farewell to sorrow , hoping henceforth to unpick with patience the lock of his disease , taking his punishment , and seeking to amend his life , giving thanks , and asking for mercy . |
| 15 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 16 | Over and behind , in a different line , Ramu 's head was feathered with electric-blue that he was trying unsuccessfully to tame into urbanity . |
| 17 | The false , fixed smiles of the salesmen on the machinery avenues and the grey-suited men on bankers ' row at the Royal Welsh Show contrasted sharply with the frowns of recession-hit livestock producers trying hard to stay in business . |
| 18 | Bejewelled , she sat through dinner-parties , often drowsy before the soup course was through , longing only to escape into sleep . |