Example sentences of "[v-ing] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rita May ( Mrs Archer ) , whose husband died very suddenly , has been grappling with all the problems of being now on her own after forty years of happy marriage , the last 20 of which were spent at Failand near Bristol , only a short distance from the former family home of Somerville 's Margery Fry . |
| 2 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 3 | Grappling with this problem , feminists who want to draw attention to women 's presence rather than simply adopting male titles have sometimes proposed completely novel words ( for instance Italian dottora , a feminine coining for ‘ doctor ’ that flouts the rules of Italian word-formation ) . |
| 4 | Grappling with this problem has led us to reject a sharp either/or dichotomy in terms of innate versus cultural , and instead to posit the existence in human beings of innate potentialities and capacities — as well as innate constraints — that may be turned to peaceful as much as to warlike ends , potentialities and capacities that are necessarily set within the particularity of a moral and semantic universe . |
| 5 | Instead of more concrete , conjestion , pollution and unemployment , we are grappling with these issues at grass roots level . |
| 6 | Walking with that lovely girleen . |
| 7 | In one of those asides , Johnson with the eye of a painter gives the last glimpse of these high ways in 1773 : ‘ Once we saw a corn field , in which a lady was walking with some gentlemen … ’ |
| 8 | The old man is walking with some woman and one of those red dogs from the cigarette commercials . |
| 9 | When he reflected on how age and death laid waste man 's being , and saw a means of interfering with that process , he acted as harbinger to the Age of Science then in its first dawn . |
| 10 | The cells are distributed so that callers travelling through cells a fair distance apart can use the same frequencies without interfering with each other , making most use of the limited spectrum available . |
| 11 | Optical arrays are ideal for parallel processing since light beams can cross without interfering with each other — and processing speed remains constant , irrespective of array size , once an image has been converted to an optical format . |
| 12 | This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other . |
| 13 | Basically , because it 's felt that the parish council should n't be interfering with those organizations , that is , their operation |
| 14 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 15 | I if that is understood and that is accepted that would meet Mr 's point in that it is , it is in fact in order and , and is not interfering with another panel 's responsibilities . |
| 16 | Clause 5 of the Bill would impose an obligation of confidence on a person who improperly acquires information by using or interfering with any computer or data retrieval mechanism , a welcome clarification . |
| 17 | There are obvious PR advantages in cooperating with such projects when approached , sometimes financial benefits can be achieved as well , where companies are prepared to pay substantial sums for the use of our facilities for filming . |
| 18 | Pupils develop skills and confidence in operating the microcomputer e.g. loading software , through use and by cooperating with each other in the use of the system . |
| 19 | He returned again , having left the German army , at fairly regular intervals during the following two years , and one could not help noticing with some alarm the deterioration he underwent from one visit to the next . |
| 20 | Any English cookery writer who published a recipe opening with these words would be thought distinctly out of touch . |
| 21 | One useful change has been the restoring of parity of permitted hours for clubs opening with those enjoyed by public houses . |
| 22 | She was praying with all her heart that he would n't be too hurt . |
| 23 | ‘ What 's wrong with him ? ’ she asked , praying with all she had that it was n't serious . |
| 24 | Niklaus is 32 , although he looks no more than 20 , and so talked with gentle mockery about the influence of French climbing on his younger compatriots before announcing with some pride that there will be 1200 routes in the forthcoming Stockholm guide . |
| 25 | It is happening with many other crimes , as crime figures spiral out of control . |
| 26 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 27 | Although it 's it 's slightly unclear to me you know because if you take article two it 's land ownership rights of all landlords are abolished , but then you 're distributing land back for their ownership so it 's not quite clear what 's happening with that . |
| 28 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 29 | So you 've done ten pallets , what 's happening with that ten pallet ? |
| 30 | ‘ It was the biggest small ramp of its time and there was always a good long hard grinding session happening with all my bros from near and far . ’ |