Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if the client wishes to restrict the contractor to working in specified hours , or to restrict access to parts of the works , the client must expect to pay more . |
| 2 | This is equivalent in terms of the effect on the total physical capital stock to reducing b by , and we can see from ( 8–56 ) that such a reduction would have an equivalent effect on the government budget constraint . |
| 3 | That is to say that no matter how much we are improving our performance , the associations have already beaten us to it and that , Mr Mayor , I would suggest is a very good case for transferring all our stock to housing associations and there is one final point I would like to make Mr Mayor . |
| 4 | The close links between the Fabians and Milner 's kindergarten on the one hand , and the personal link in Chamberlain 's own career between radical reform and tariff imperialism — he wanted the Conservative Party to hypothecate the financial yield of the preferential tariff to providing old age pensions — are reminders that at the beginning of the century ‘ social imperialism ’ did not sound the paradox it does today , and that the forefathers of modern British Socialism are to be found in larger numbers in the ranks of the imperialists than of the Little Englanders . |
| 5 | Last year 58 groups in Wales received grants of up to £750 towards practical projects ranging from the creation of a wildlife pond to setting up a community recycling scheme . |
| 6 | Two-digit inflation was a great boost to buying on credit , and buying a house on credit made the greatest sense of all because inflation ensured that the capital value of your house increased while your repayments took a gradually smaller percentage of your income . |
| 7 | Coming on the heels of last week 's selling — some would call it over-selling — the endorsement provided a welcome boost to trading at the start of the new three-week account . |
| 8 | At this point the strong equivalence principle supplies a key ingredient to understanding curved space–time . |
| 9 | With financial support from Lothian Region 's education department arts development fund , the project , entitled ‘ Ring the Changes ’ , has encouraged pupils from each school to create a giant collage clock celebrating aspects of their daily lives , from playing football to dreaming . |
| 10 | And there 's an extra bonus to riding for Sonauto , who also import Porsche cars into France : he gets a 944S2 as a company car . |
| 11 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 12 | If we now add to this the possibility that those units or sectors experiencing a fall in supply switch to borrowing from banks , the money supply will increase . |
| 13 | The switch to making astrocytes only occurs when another factor , which is made by the optic nerve , is present . |
| 14 | TO sell your timber at a loss to logging companies , who then earn millions from sawing it , makes no sense . |
| 15 | The latter point suggests some output loss to reducing unemployment . |
| 16 | The engineering employers may be willing to reinstate the contract as a prelude to revising it . |
| 17 | Their big forwards made a science of gaining the hard yards up the middle , purely as a prelude to sending the ball wide to their backs . |
| 18 | As a result of investigations which began in 1989 against officials suspected of corrupt practices under the administration of the previous President , Jaime Lusinchi , a senator and former Minister of the Interior and of Development , José Angel Ciliberto , was on Jan. 27 , 1990 , stripped of parliamentary immunity as a prelude to facing charges of misuse of government funds . |
| 19 | Looking specifically to women 's issues , the participants agreed to start compiling a directory of women involved in the media in each country as a prelude to revitalising the Federation of African Media Women . |
| 20 | The three contending armed factions inside Liberia signed a ceasefire agreement in Bamako ( Mali ) on Nov. 28 , and a further agreement in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on Dec. 21 declaring their intention to set up a national conference within 60 days as a prelude to establishing their own interim government . |
| 21 | The intention of the assailants is obviously to create an ‘ ethnically clean ’ Serbian corridor in eastern Bosnia as a prelude to partitioning the state . |
| 22 | Criterion statements may be derived from the subject matter as a prelude to writing test items . |
| 23 | He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage . |
| 24 | Was it , he wonders , a prelude to opencasting at Stamford Bridge ? |
| 25 | The idea that design was a form of knowing in its own right — and one moreover significantly different from and possibly , in certain respects , superior to , the analogous " prestige " model — was never explored ; indeed given the processes of false rationalism noted above , could never have been since the prerequisites of a truly rational model of design activity — comprehension of all of design 's moments as a prelude to modelling what whole they constituted in interaction — were never realised . |
| 26 | Teachers and librarians can not always resist the uneasy thought that they may be being given the soft sell : like demythologizing theologians laughing too heartily at our ideas of what religious doctrine involves , perhaps the educational technologist 's bland " all we are saying is " is simply the prelude to smuggling all the old gadgetry back again while our backs are turned ? |
| 27 | Asking for a written statement is often a prelude to presenting an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 28 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 29 | But this was not the prelude to surrounding the new king with the duke 's own men . |
| 30 | The purpose here essentially is to outline what we know as a prelude to tackling the themes and patterns which emerge in a more analytical way in subsequent chapters . |