Example sentences of "to [v-ing] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no doubt that by returning to nursing in the next decade you will be helping to prepare the profession for the enormous demographic and social challenges facing Britain in the 21st century . |
| 2 | Polishing the fit in this way is analogous to reroughing in the last chapter . |
| 3 | Our lack of a regional strategy has acted as a brake on our economic development and , in the future , it will be a barrier to competing in the single market . |
| 4 | Consideration to be given to incorporating in the playing conditions fielding circles , team identification and white balls . |
| 5 | Because that 's the way you develop players , give them a chance of first-grade football and get them used to operating in the big time . |
| 6 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 8 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 9 | But in comparison to proceeding in the civil courts , arbitration offers a number of possible advantages , ie : |
| 10 | Most yachtsmen from the south think of the wild weather as the chief drawback to cruising in the extreme north west . |
| 11 | Its main proposals were ( i ) a 20 per cent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide by the year 2000 , with a 40 per cent cut by 2010 ; ( ii ) a ban on offshore oil drilling in state waters ; ( iii ) a halt to logging in the ancient redwood forests ; ( iv ) a requirement that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development ; and ( v ) a ban on all pesticides with the potential to cause cancer or to damage a developing foetus . |
| 12 | She would not be reduced to skulking in the back room of her own shop . |
| 13 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 14 | There are also many references to drinking in the Old Testament — ‘ There is joy for the heart and soul in wine without excess ’ ( Ecclesiastes ) . |
| 15 | The move to lending in the 1980s for ‘ adjustment ’ , and away from projects , has replaced a set of conditions closely tied to projects with a set tied to broader conditions affecting a whole economy , or large sectors within it . |
| 16 | If you have your hearts set on a joint endowment , you have two alternatives to cashing in the present one . |
| 17 | ( c ) pre-breeding aggregations ( formed prior to breeding in the early spring and , occasionally , in summer ) in which adults predominate . |
| 18 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 19 | The Housing Act 1980 contains three major sections which affect access to housing in the public and private sectors . |
| 20 | It is often said that women have greater access to housing in the public sector than men , or that housing officials tend to be more sympathetic to women . |
| 21 | How they went on from being carried and put in things to sitting in the front seat of cars , opening things for themselves , unlocking the tame mysteries of life . |
| 22 | When the Japanese returned to investing in the 1960s , they first concentrated on Asian markets that had largely been ignored by earlier investors . |
| 23 | It was not clear , however , whether other governments would join Syria ( newly in accord with the PLO ) in demanding territorial concessions as a precondition to participating in the planned third stage of the negotiations . |
| 24 | That made people feel that their least effort was rewarded and they looked forward to participating in the next organizational improvement . |
| 25 | An alternative to digging in the green manure in spring is to cut and add the material to the compost heap . |
| 26 | Me old man right , me uncle , me uncle used to live in a house which used to digging in the back garden , this piece of fucking dirt and he pulled out this and its sort of round , my old man 's gone , no he , he said er I would n't dig there any more |
| 27 | A Trotskyist group , led by Reg Groves , was particularly afraid of " sacrificing the Socialist League 's position in the Labour Party " , thus repeating the objections to working in the United Front which had been made by leaders of the League in past years . |
| 28 | It is closer to the former but is restricted by dispensation to working in the 50 metre ( 165 feet ) water depth . |