Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [noun] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demonstrators on a march in Hong Kong on April 5 , organized by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democracy Movement in China , were urged by leading liberal Yeung Sum to cherish freedom of speech while they could , and to continue drawing attention to the denial of such freedom in China . |
| 2 | As the discussion of power in Chapter 2 showed , pluralist approaches have explicitly rejected the notion that one can derive a causal explanation of policy outcomes based upon the congruence of the policy outcome with the interests of a particular group or class — that the congruence between the policy outcome and the interests of a group offers strong evidence to support ascribing power to the group . |
| 3 | On Christmas day they stopped sending aid to the country , because he had taken over its government yet again . |
| 4 | They provide breathing gas to the helmet , communications wires , the hot water hose ( this must not be used in air diving ) , a phunumofathometer ( used to obtain the divers ' depth ) , closed circuit television and light cables , and for mixed gas bell diving — a gas reclaim hose . |
| 5 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 6 | Cut edging profile to the height of the dado rail . |
| 7 | Was it really wise to risk adding burglary to the list ? |
| 8 | Councillors in Sefton have demanded rail wagons from the site be enclosed adding £12m to the company 's costs . |
| 9 | This includes giving instructions to the language helper and when communicating with any fellow students . |
| 10 | These are usually irregular , but in extensive flows of basalt a highly regular hexagonal jointing pattern is sometimes produced giving rise to the kind of vertical columnar basalt outcrops which form the Giant 's Causeway in Northern Ireland , UK . |
| 11 | The archbishop came back under papal orders to avoid giving offence to the king . |
| 12 | Philip himself had avoided giving battle to the English , and a lengthy campaign of sieges was beyond Edward 's means . |
| 13 | ‘ As it opens it triggers air inflation bags underneath the cockpit capsule to soften the landing and reduces landing shock to the crew . |
| 14 | There 's mi minus four people coming to the party tonight , they 're all crackers , okay but it works , it 's very useful it solves an awful lot of problems like you know getting rockets to the moon and things like that that we could n't do otherwise . |
| 15 | Eric Jones-Evans began donating material to the Theatre Collection in 1980 and the remainder , including his substantial library , formed just a part of his considerable estate , the bulk of which was bequeathed to the Collection upon his death in 1989 . |
| 16 | To treat it separately would be to risk giving rise to the misconception that it should be separately timetabled , taught and assessed , rather than integrated in the speaking , listening , reading and writing activities of any English lesson . |
| 17 | The court has a discretion under s33 to override the s11 or s12 limitation periods if it would be equitable to allow an action to proceed having regard to the prejudice to the plaintiff of applying the s11 or s12 periods against the prejudice to the defendant of not doing so . |
| 18 | In 1895 he became examining chaplain to the bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa , Alfred Tucker [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | We noted how shrewdly the man was found paying attention to the member of the party who looked most likely to be the paymaster . |
| 20 | Just before Christmas , Sir Peter Levene , the head of procurement at the MOD , sent a letter to all defence industry suppliers asking them to postpone sending invoices to the department for a month : officials needed to remedy a £400m ( $780m ) overrun on their year-to-date budget . |
| 21 | He started dragging Joy to the door . |
| 22 | It entails extending credit to the exporter which involves a financial cost through the loss of deposit interest or incurring bank loan charges . |
| 23 | I accept the argument which er Noble Viscount put so clearly that there may be a case for bringing in some outside people , but if this is to be done , it seems to me that the police authority itself is the authority best able to judge what particular gaps need to be filled and the one of the amendments to which I am speaking erm does contemplate giving power to the authority to co-opt members with experience which might not other ways be available , for example from among the ethnic minorities . |
| 24 | Andrew Thompson , 21 , from Manor Street , who denies setting fire to the car and garage in Alexandra Park Avenue , was remanded in custody to September 17 . |
| 25 | Sutherland also denies setting fire to the house , again allegedly with Mr Buckley , about two weeks earlier . |
| 26 | Nava was a truly radical concept : a soft skiboot ( an enhanced moonboot , in fact ) with its own binding system that incorporated an arm that wrapped around the lower leg to transmit edging movements to the ski . |
| 27 | When , with video , we can add moving pictures to the soundtrack , the examples of language in use become even more realistic . |
| 28 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 29 | Howell was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , and he gave unstinting service to the promotion of the study of British history in the United States . |
| 30 | Thus in Priest v Last [ 1903 ] 2 KB 148 , a hot water bottle burst causing injury to the purchaser 's wife and it was held that there was a breach of the implied condition even though nothing was said about the purpose . |