Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other scheme allowed for one-to-one tests but left the decision about including them to individual teachers . |
| 2 | The CAR are studying the feasibility of converting them to electronic warfare trainers . |
| 3 | In any case , teaching English Literature to schoolchildren would only remind her daily of the superior satisfactions of teaching it to young adults . |
| 4 | Having created the luxury 4 × 4 niche , it has no intention of relinquishing it to recent pretenders in the form of the revised Shogun , G-Wagen and Land Cruiser . |
| 5 | In 1968 , the Kittyhawk was purchased with the intention of returning it to flying condition . |
| 6 | Needless to say I 've no intention of committing myself to that particular folly . |
| 7 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 8 | This way you may be able to get a taste of different or unusual working environments before committing yourself to one or the other . |
| 9 | Most local authorities do not recruit until the months immediately before the vacancy arises although some authorities are increasingly seeing the advantage of recruiting one to two years in advance . |
| 10 | Very few men took clerical orders in the hope of devoting themselves to pastoral work at parish or diocesan level . |
| 11 | I am glad to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE V — this special mobile classroom which British Rail Signal and Telecommunications Engineering has funded is to provide your pupils a chance to experience the excitement of working on the equipment on board . |
| 12 | I am delighted to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE VI — this special mobile laboratory which The Nottingham Trent University has funded to provide your pupils and colleagues with a chance to experience the excitement of working with the equipment on board , which has been developed by the : |
| 13 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 15 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 16 | Parents may feel suspicious of these , or resentful , and will need help in using them to best advantage . |
| 17 | Moreover , it allows us to talk more confidently of a psychic and cognitive unity of humanity without limiting us to absolute categories . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to test one set of certainties by opposing them to another . |
| 19 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 20 | The following year , however , it was revived with the aim of extending it to other neighbourhoods of the city . |
| 21 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 22 | In 1970 it was acquired by its last owner , Don Campbell of Ontario , who was in the process of restoring it to flying condition . |
| 23 | In the following example program segment , AND is used as a bitwise operator to remove the most significant bit of a byte read from a file before writing it to another file . |
| 24 | They had drugged my wine before moving me to that horror-filled garden . |
| 25 | Despite signs of renewed interest from both Ford and Volkswagen ( keen to re-establish itself as the largest car manufacturer in Europe ) , the British government announced in March 1988 that it intended to pursue a wholly British solution for the remaining parts of Rover by selling it to British Aerospace ( BAe ) . |
| 26 | NT would not appear on any of the bigger selling RISC processors — Sparc , RS/6000 or HP — for at least a year , probably two , said Michels , due to the difficulties of porting it to big-endian architectures . |
| 27 | He quotes Occam 's razor but never dreams of applying it to most of the controversies he refers to , and , ironically over macroevolution , thinks that some of the recent speculations ‘ must inhibit the penchant for ‘ story-telling ’ and the glib explanation ’ , of the neo-Darwinists . |
| 28 | Elise Fox , happily unmarried at thirty-two , was rarely without an escort , but never showed the least sign of tying herself to one man for good . |
| 29 | There were no difficulties in construing the section although difficulties in applying it to particular cases may arise ( p202 ) . |
| 30 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |