Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the pitch they are struggling to preserve their Premier Division status with the worse defensive record among the top clubs while boardroom battles continue to drive a wedge between club and supporters . |
| 2 | The Sunderland contingent in a 40,000 crowd stayed in their places long after the finish demanding to see their heroes . |
| 3 | We were eventually released and returned to find some of the crew busily repairing the mainsail on the dock , while the rest , with Tandri and the officers , were being bullied by lesser officials who were nosing around the hold and demanding to see their personal possessions . |
| 4 | It is not two years since a rag-tag group of about 200 men , few of them daring to wear their Soviet uniforms , gathered in the Kiev building that housed a short-lived nationalist government in 1917–18 , to found the Ukrainian Officers Union . |
| 5 | I think you 're sort of drawing drawing their attention to the public concern over that sort of phrase . |
| 6 | Every Australian weapon was firing and their grenades , lobbed through open doors and windows , were bursting among the men struggling to find their weapons . |
| 7 | Those outside the BBC are struggling to find their place and role in the world of profit . |
| 8 | Stewpid is back at school with his arm in plaster , and he is the big HERO with kids queueing to write their names on his plasterised arm . |
| 9 | The increasing use of Sharpness docks for imported goods is undoubtably good news for workers there ; helping to secure their jobs . |
| 10 | The confusion of constitutional change amid economic and social crisis left the executive and assembly struggling to establish their range of control and influence vis-a-vis each other . |
| 11 | For the polytechnics , still struggling to establish their place in the pattern of higher education , the advent of this group of diverse institutions could be seen as ‘ jeopardizing ’ their position , given what the CDP considered an ill-defined interpretation by the DES of ‘ advanced further education ’ . |
| 12 | The strength and breadth of these definitions and emphases were to prove encouraging to many institutions , and people in institutions , struggling to establish their own research policies and activities . |
| 13 | The staff appraisal interviews were conducted by the Head and the Deputy Head ( Staff ) , who claimed that the main benefits were : a report on individual teachers , agreed with them , on their personal file ( to which the Head added ‘ they 're helping to write their own references ’ ) , and clarification for the Senior Management Team as to what INSET actions they ought to take on the individual teacher 's behalf . |
| 14 | The local office of the World Council of Churches runs a refugee camp for displaced Kampucheans and is struggling to meet their basic needs . |
| 15 | Most women were more cautious and conscious about how they spent the household 's money but about half were just ‘ living from week to week ’ , struggling to meet their financial commitments with every penny of the weekly budget accounted for . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State will be aware that the social services departments of many local authorities are struggling to meet their financial commitments in implementation of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 17 | COUNCILS have been accused of refusing to come to the rescue of hard-pressed small firms struggling to meet their Uniform Business Rate demands . |
| 18 | The main exchanges are already competing to establish their stake in pan-European futures and options contracts such as the ECU bond and the euro-index contracts . |
| 19 | In nearby Sumatra , the Batak men went as far as deliberately slicing open their penises and inserting pieces of stone , which became firmly embedded as the wound closed over . |
| 20 | Or will a new generation of qualified women , some of whom are still keeping open their options , decide that the economic penalties of motherhood outweigh its attractions ? |
| 21 | For example , the Home Responsibility Protection of pension rights under the current version of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) recognizes that valuable work is being done by women who are not earning enough to pay contributions , but does not allow for the fact that the low pay of some who are contributing reflects their domestic responsibilities as well . |
| 22 | And the truth is that driving on the M25 can be far more frightening than a Grand Prix because so many drivers on the road lack the finesse and understanding to control their cars . ’ |
| 23 | But here Mr Lawson does not seem to be quite so indifferent to the behaviour of consenting adults : he has been endeavouring to control their behaviour by altering the price at which they can borrow . |
| 24 | It has to be admitted that there are problems with trying to state what data are without appearing to stipulate their character in advance . |
| 25 | Yet the number of peasants applying to withdraw their holdings from the commune peaked in 1909 , long before the war , and thereafter underwent a precipitate decline . |
| 26 | US Marines have won medals of honour dying to save their flag , and these kids died for their symbols as well . |
| 27 | We ended up alienating one group of potential Labour voters by appearing to cap their aspirations , while failing to appeal to another group who were not impressed by our attempt to offer them greater benefits . |
| 28 | THEY are the picture cards wrestling fans will be grappling to get their hands on — and they can be yours absolutely FREE . |
| 29 | Eagles by contrast are soaring birds which rise on hot-air thermals appearing to balance their ‘ barn-door ’ shapes on their ‘ finger-tips ’ — the long primaries on the end of their wings which smooth the air-flow at slow speeds . |
| 30 | They were clearly on the lookout for a second opening to pillory their headmistress . |