Example sentences of "[v-ing] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police are investigating two more cases of carjacking bringing to four , the total number of such robberies in the past week . |
| 2 | Erm essentially we we are sticking sticking to more information about environmental environmental issues expect er er within the ne next few months . |
| 3 | The two human CFTR probes , corresponding to nucleotides 62–645 ( exons 1–6 ) and nucleotides 1,977–2,461 ( exon 13 ) ( numbering according to ref.1 ) , have been described previously . |
| 4 | Its effect may produce dispersal rather than crowding according to the characteristic response repertoire of the species . |
| 5 | Bailey and Harrison ( 1984 ) followed up the research of Cohen ( 1975 ) , which had reported that percentage cloze scores seemed to represent different levels of understanding according to the nature of the subject . |
| 6 | Hosepipe bans over recent summers have meant keeping watering to a minimum — and digging out the old watering can . |
| 7 | The system uses well and log data to provide on-the-spot reservoir analysis , enabling drilling to be adjusted to maximise well productivity . |
| 8 | It is clear that the Banks are preoccupied with keeping staffing to a minimum ; have no regard for retaining Key Posts and have totally disregarded Relief Staff . |
| 9 | I will keeping talking to this stupid machine ! |
| 10 | As the school has staffing delegation it will adjust the number of staff by hiring or firing according to this movement of pupils and funding . |
| 11 | Yet competing successfully in Europe means competing according to Community rules . |
| 12 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 13 | From about AD500 the Christian Church introduced a practice of dating according to the nearest religious festival . |
| 14 | On investigation it was found that the horse watched his questioner and judged when to stop tapping according to the questioner 's inclination of the head and facial expression . |
| 15 | The motive behind this may have been the desire to assist monasteries in living according to canon law ; for the Second Lateran Council of 1139 had forbidden churchmen to participate in justice de sang ( the trial of crimes punished by corporal or capital penalties ) . |
| 16 | The collection of subjects participating in the international legal order constitutes a community living according to common rules of conduct . |
| 17 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 18 | One training method will be based on a model of writing according to which pre-conceived meanings are simply translated into words and sentences and transferred to paper . |
| 19 | Last Friday 's shambles , when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place , was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people 's party acting according to the slogan of ‘ all power to the apparatchiks ’ , and losing its soul , its sense of purpose , much of its membership — and the general election — along the way . |
| 20 | It 's up to you whether you think you 're using sharp powers of interpretation or acting according to paranoia . |
| 21 | So even unanimous decisions , taken by individuals freely acting according to their perception of their own interests , will not necessarily produce the result they want . |
| 22 | Where the privacy of routine cases provides an effective screen to scrutiny , however , the field officer is freed from the need to cover himself by acting according to his perception of the organization 's expectations . |
| 23 | As Attridge shows this means that poetry claiming to be perfecting the natural ( acting according to decorum ) establishes its claim to do so by using a rhetoric which is employed only by a learned few whose language is distanced from the natural language of the majority . |
| 24 | In December 1630 he was silenced by William Laud [ q.v. ] for not catechizing according to the form laid down in the Prayer Book , and for refusing to bow at the name of Jesus . |
| 25 | Raising the £6.5 million , ‘ the largest sum ever attracted by a radical project in Britain' according to the publicity blurb , had been either a heroic achievement by selfless , dedicated humanitarians or the blag of the century . |
| 26 | A new constitution , adopted in 1980 , declared that Vietnam was a state of proletarian dictatorship which was developing according to Marxism-Leninism . |
| 27 | Some followed Priestley in his necessarianism which envisaged all mental and moral life , since it was derived ultimately from matter , operating according to natural laws . |
| 28 | While Kittay 's theory has the advantage that it allows metaphor to be seen as operating according to the same basic principles regardless of the size of the discursive unit in question , Brooke-Rose 's own examination of the mechanisms of the verb metaphor suggest a view that minimizes dependence on an implicit ‘ proper ’ term outside the text and emphasizes the metaphoric interactions between the terms themselves . |
| 29 | It sounds good but in reality none of the video centres is operating according to these regulations . |
| 30 | This shall include a system of commercial banks operating according to private-sector principles , with competing private , co-operative and public-law banks , as well a free money and a free capital market and non-regulated interest-rate fixing on financial markets . |