Example sentences of "be [v-ing] with [art] " 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 A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations .
4 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 .
5 On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it .
6 Over the past three years my department has been collaborating with a training programme for general practitioners based at the Conceicao Hospital in Porto Alegre , a large city in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul with a population of around 1.5 million .
7 Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December .
8 In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether .
9 Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge .
10 Before Henderson went to Russia Lloyd George himself had been toying with the idea that a Stockholm conference might help to keep Russia in the war .
11 But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’
12 Since Alice had long since been betrothed to Richard the studied vagueness of the phrase " to whichever of his sons married her " suggests that Henry may have been toying with the idea of marrying her not to Richard but to John .
13 ‘ No , he had been toying with the idea of proposing to Fiona , whom he had known all his life and whom he liked .
14 Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards .
15 There is a big difference between the terms that you may be able to negotiate with , say , a US company seeking to recruit you to work in the Middle East and those offered by , say , a West German company offering a job at their headquarters , for which you are competing with a West German national .
16 It also oxygenates the water on warm summer nights or in thundery weather at a time when the fish are competing with the plants for oxygen .
17 Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice .
18 While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate …
19 The rugby club are helping with the organisation .
20 and they are helping with the children in the house , I mean , they ca n't do much more !
21 It is especially useful if you are knitting with a very soft yarn which breaks easily or with a yarn which has no stretch .
22 The problem can arise if you are knitting with the N1 cam outside the point cams .
23 To a very recently bereaved family who are struggling with a multiplicity of emotions this early attention to fees can seem mercenary .
24 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 .
25 Providing support generally in a class where most children are struggling with the work , discouraged or disaffected .
26 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 .
27 I am copulating with the blacksmith . ’ ’
28 I find I am competing with the Ann Summers ones now . ’
29 Robson , 35 , has been struggling with a recurrence of a calf injury and missed the explosive Manchester derby at Old Trafford on Tuesday .
30 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 .
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