Example sentences of "be [v-ing] with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police say the device bears all the hallmarks of the IRA and officers are liasing with the Anti Terrorist Squad … |
| 2 | Sainsburys say the company 's medical staff are liasing with the local council.No employees will be allowed back to work until the infection has cleared up . |
| 3 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 4 | However tough things seem , it 's vital that you should keep your spirits up , and remember that acting is an art and a thrilling one — though sometimes when you are struggling with the frustrating process of building a career , this can all get a bit obscured . |
| 5 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 6 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 7 | Both government and opposition are grappling with the awkward consequences of an upsurge of religious tension inspired by militant Hindu claims to a disused Muslim mosque on a site believed to have been Lord Rama 's birthplace . |
| 8 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 9 | BLOOD on their hands , as it were , readers have been grappling with the unsolved mystery we set last week . |
| 10 | No longer ‘ hidden from history ’ women artists and art historians have , over the past decade , been grappling with the thorny question of the feminine aesthetic . |
| 11 | Councillor Rodgers said , ‘ They are interfering with the democratic process in this by-election and seeking to buy political influence with what amounts to bribes ’ , and noted the offer was personally embarrassing for him as he negotiated as a union official with the companies over workers ' pay and conditions . |
| 12 | But could it not be argued that the RSPCA , and others who carry out such a praiseworthy activity , are interfering with the natural selection process ? |
| 13 | The sharp dualism that is proposed whereby acquisition and learning are two quite distinct processes would seem to force the conclusion that if you think carefully , choose your words , take your time before making your conversational contribution you can not communicate , or at any rate not very effectively , because you are interfering with the natural function of the acquired system . |
| 14 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 15 | At the same time , General Noriega had been flirting with the Soviet Union and , according to US intelligence sources , continues to receive arms from Moscow . |
| 16 | Jeanne had been living with the Communist Maquis since the disastrous parachute drop over two months ago . |
| 17 | Yet while she 's been pulling no punches as the dynamic young WPC , Jane 's been wrestling with the thorny dilemma of whether she can find lasting love with teacher Grant Mitchell played by Craig McLachlan . |
| 18 | He is one of thousands here who are wrestling with the economic difficulties . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's that you 're eating with the fried eggs ? ’ |
| 20 | If you 're knitting with the mylar sheet , it moves on at the start of the second row and is scanned at the end of the second row . |
| 21 | Erm we 're linking with the relevant staff association , erm just some general er points about how we identify and evaluate erm and put together the training plan , And and settling once and for all about the national recognized qualification . |
| 22 | ‘ The problem you 're having with the new keel , of course . ’ |
| 23 | If you want to know how you 're doing with the other person , you need to ask . |
| 24 | When you 're dealing with the smallest cogs in a ‘ million pound train-set ’ which in any case will not be operational for decades , how can you think to exchange these with a human life ? |
| 25 | But even then you see you 're dealing with the top fifty per cent of the population . |
| 26 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 27 | But undoubtedly , the way we are moving with the major providers is one where increasingly they will be part of the mixed economy in the independent sector which is voluntaries , erm , quasi er , commercial bodies , and fortified with commercial bodies , trusts and others . |
| 28 | This microlight had been flying with the right wingtip set to maximum incidence , but with the left at one setting of reduced incidence from neutral . |
| 29 | Given this apparent potential it is interesting to see how the various manufacturers are coping with the current market expansion . |
| 30 | Pam Legate reports on how hoteliers are coping with the new EC Package Directive |