Example sentences of "to [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | See basically if a customer objects , you 're about to cover the , the fact that if the customer objects , say come back to canvassing for a minute , you get somebody , you phone somebody up and they say , urgh , urgh , and they just mumble away and they listen to you and they do n't listen to you , right , it 's a waste of bloody time , but if they talk to you and they give you objections and you deal with these objections , right , they 're bound to buy |
| 2 | We will ensure that , following maternity leave or a career break , all women working in the NHS , including those returning to nursing on a part-time or job-sharing basis , are able to return to work of a similar status or level to that which they left . |
| 3 | Nutritional counselling aims not to prescribe yet another rigid diet but to guide the patient back to eating in a normal and relaxed way , with sufficient flexibility to adapt to various social settings such as going to a restaurant or eating with friends . |
| 4 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 5 | The tradition of large , sometimes very large vases , probably still grave-markers , continues and the spreading of the figure-zones on these leads to drawing on an unprecedented scale ( fig. 9 ) : a monumental art of which there will be more to say in the next chapter . |
| 6 | Once the European law is made , therefore , Parliament 's function is confined to reacting to a fait accompli , perhaps by chastising a Minister for acquiescing in its making , perhaps by pressing him to seek change . |
| 7 | Provision for children with special educational needs is becoming a major problem , leading to overspending in a considerable proportion of local authority education budgets . |
| 8 | I would have thought that when there is a risk attached you would need someone who is used to helping in a crisis . ’ |
| 9 | Given a willingness on the part of the academic community , all the student freedoms I have cited — from the right of applicants to have their experiential learning taken into account in the admissions process , through allowing students a significant measure of control over their curriculum , to submitting to an assessment regime which is explicitly designed to allow students to do justice to the higher-order abilities they have acquired — could be assured to students . |
| 10 | In the middle of a still most active social life I am being drawn into an absolute solitude in which I can not even entertain myself with the motions of the teleonomic mechanisms on stage or screen , and making love is equivalent to copulating with a perfectly lifelike mechanical doll . |
| 11 | While the law as to imputing to a principal the knowledge acquired by his agent in the course of the business about which the agent is employed is at points confused ( see Bowstead , Agency , 13th edn , Article 112 and pp 356–7 ) , it would have been difficult in the circumstances of the case to withhold the concession . |
| 12 | Scroll through a long document in a DOS word processor , then compare that to wading through a Word for Windows file . |
| 13 | Could it be that the Prime Minister did n't want to admit to a U-turn , to reneging on a commitment to European partners , ‘ some of those European Commissioners ’ , ‘ the mining areas ’ and ‘ the people of Britain ’ ? |
| 14 | Cud used the record as a stepping stone to signing with a larger independent label , Imaginary Records , but This Poison ! found the going harder . |
| 15 | They suggest that you should start the training when your pet is still a kitten and get it used to walking on a harness ( not a collar that can be slipped too easily ) and lead . |
| 16 | Asked a few pertinent questions on Thursday 's Question Time television programme , he was reduced to mumbling about an academic study by a ‘ distinguished ’ Stirling University economist . |
| 17 | Large numbers of people in Britain are reduced to subsisting on a low income once they are unable to work . |
| 18 | That applies not only to a decision but to appearing under an appellate process . |
| 19 | STUNNING pop singer Sophie B. Hawkins was upset when she was given the thumbs down to appearing in a white sumo-style nappy in her new video . |
| 20 | During exchanges with the magician , John confessed to appearing in a school play as a fairy and he has , not unexpectedly , taken a fair amount of stick back at work . |
| 21 | I do n't like heroes , so I was pleased to find that on the way up to Gorffwysfa Norman fussed and worried as anyone might when faced with the return to climbing after a long break . |
| 22 | The group was a coterie , meeting for beer in an Oxford pub on Tuesday mornings and for readings in Lewis 's college room on Thursday evenings ; and it came close , for a time , to qualifying as a sect . |
| 23 | ‘ The fact that such specific parts were targeted , useless to anyone else , seems to indicate that this dastardly deed was carried out by a steam preservation ‘ colleague ’ with a view to fitting to a similar GWR-designed loco — quite sickening if so . |
| 24 | In order to further an understanding of the various dimensions to ageing with a disability , we need a conceptual framework which takes account of the dual experience of both ageing and disability . |
| 25 | Gender and race dimensions to ageing with a disability |
| 26 | Practically nothing is known about the race dimension to ageing with a disability . |
| 27 | ‘ I think that it is tremendous that the Australian Wine Bureau is offering so many people the chance to play tennis competitively at great venues and I am looking forward to passing on a few tips to the winners — before joining them in a celebratory glass of Australian wine . ’ |
| 28 | Since primary school teachers have responsibility for all areas of the school curriculum , special consideration be given to the language curricular genres and to writing for a variety of purposes . |
| 29 | It was perhaps originally an oral message from Cnut , committed to writing by an ecclesiastic for circulation to the shire courts , and then redrafted into its present state by Wulfstan . |
| 30 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |