Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can now consider that the new system of sponsoring foreseen by the Lawn Tennis Association no longer contains appreciable restrictions of competition and therefore the file will be closed . ’ |
| 2 | You must give the exact critical values , right , if those critical values that you are using to compare with the regressionally significant whether you have serial correlation or not erm so they 're very very important and they ought to be included erm because otherwise we do n't know whether a test statistic is er statistically significant or not . |
| 3 | Foinavon had been trained by Tom Dreaper in Ireland for Arkle 's owner Anne , Duchess of Westminster , but while in Dreaper 's charge had been notable mainly for his extraordinarily laid-back demeanour : in a chase at Baldoyle he was in the lead when falling at the third fence , throwing Pat Taaffe well clear , but Foinavon did not bother to scramble to his feet , preferring to remain on the ground and pick quietly at the grass beside him . |
| 4 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 5 | Here and there was the occasional flower bed ; the lilies and other wild flowers struggling to thrive amongst the brambles and weeds . |
| 6 | A punctured car wheel that someone was repairing lay in the centre of the floor with half its inner tube hanging out like a paunched rabbit . |
| 7 | He 's helping to drive in the ewes for a mass ante natal clinic . |
| 8 | Commissioner of the Garda Siochana for little more than two years in the 1970s , he presided over a force struggling to cope with a surge in urban crime and the spillover violence of the IRA campaign in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 10 | Hospital emergency wards were struggling to cope with the injured as radio announcers read lists of victims and broadcast anguished appeals from those who had not heard from relatives in the area near the explosion . |
| 11 | Representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees have been struggling to cope with the flood of refugees and have appealed to the international community to step up relief . |
| 12 | The idea was to start a volunteer counselling service for adult victims of incest and abuse , but the response to Christine 's appeal was so great that ICAIRR is now struggling to cope with the demands on its services . |
| 13 | Life for a single parent was never easy — struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby , while at the same time trying to hold down a job . |
| 14 | Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs . |
| 15 | Detailed information on company operations is found to be available only from the individual concerns , and in order to determine the types of materials handling undertaken in the region , a detailed questionnaire has been distributed to over 350 companies , and over 150 replies received . |
| 16 | There is a case for writing reports but the Profitboss prefers not to make it , preferring to profit from an accurate word of mouth . |
| 17 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 18 | toilet training and , well not toilet training but reminding to go to the toilet , look at his hat did you read in the paper that George Best has had to spend half of his testimonial money on debts |
| 19 | The abrupt challenge was distracted because she was struggling to contend with an unexpectedly physical reaction to finding herself alone with him in such a confined space . |
| 20 | For the Nonconformist minister as well as for the man in the pew , preaching lay at the heart of chapel life . |
| 21 | He spent the entire morning with his legs crossed , not daring to go to the loo in case one of his colleagues was in there at the same time and came to the wrong conclusion . ’ |
| 22 | DARING TO SEE LIKE A YES |
| 23 | lurching in the blink of an eye , daring to see like a yes . |
| 24 | The track continues uphill , soon levelling to pass between the walls of Fell lane , going forward but constricted for a long and uninteresting mile with Ingleborough out of sight and little worthy of note along the way apart from a large rock embedded in the lane and known as Giant 's Grave . |
| 25 | He accused them of failing to face up to the implications of the voters ' choice should this happen , and of preferring to hide from the truth . |
| 26 | He knew that the ditch would be dank with nettles and sour with rotting rubbish , the trees wounded by vandals , the trunks carved with initials , the low branches hanging torn from the boughs . |
| 27 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 28 | " Did the service men come ? " asked Clara , feeling some word required of her , and yet not daring to comment upon the story 's true import . |
| 29 | Weasels , in any case , very rarely tackle mature rabbits , preferring to concentrate on the very small ones and on even smaller mammals . |
| 30 | Even the Trade and Industry Select Committee , which produced a lengthy report on the investigation system during 1990 , almost totally ignored the very existence of the s 447 enquiries , preferring to concentrate on the public inspections . |