Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have set up one-year and two-year training courses in church planting , encouraging those being trained to pay for the privilege and so contributing to the financing of church planting , as well as providing workers in training . |
| 2 | A Scottish Labour Member could find himself isolated on the Committee and virtually speaking to the walls of the Committee Room , because he will get no reasonable or logical answers from Ministers who have no responsibility for Scottish education and will be unable to deal with the criticisms and questions which that Labour Member may raise . |
| 3 | Lucy said ruefully , gratefully lowering herself on to a floral-cushioned , wicker-backed sofa in the conservatory and reluctantly submitting to Virginia 's fussing with a footstool , ‘ Is Mrs Chalk still there ? |
| 4 | More immediately , it was very good to see the Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia and Hungary , and the acting Prime Minister of Poland , in Brussels on Monday , signing the association agreements between those countries and the Community and thus bringing to fruition an initiative begun by my right hon. Friend the Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 5 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 6 | Rather than ‘ structuring tasks for collaboration ’ , it was more a process of ‘ structuring a learning environment for collaboration ’ , with each of the elements contributing something to the whole and therefore needing to be understood in relation to the whole . |
| 7 | Once love for a woman but hopeless from the start and perhaps needing to be . |
| 8 | It must be recognised , however , that as long as the binding of most serial parts is — as at present — contracted out to a commercial bindery , delays incurred in the processing of such items between their leaving the Library and subsequently returning to it , will remain outwith the Library 's control . |
| 9 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 10 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 11 | ‘ Background ’ shall mean any inventions designs computer software reports drawings and other works and information made available before or during the Project but not generated under the Project and either belonging to the contributing Party or to which the contributing Party has the necessary rights for the purposes of the Project . |
| 12 | She did n't much feel like sitting beside the pool and simply shouting to Ana . |
| 13 | Gallacher was a renegade , a prototype of the Scottish Babylonian , a skilful but troublesome footballer always at war with the world and perpetually trying to be ‘ gallus ’ . |
| 14 | Britannia said he had asked for permission to see the flight deck and apparently made the threat while casually chatting to the captain . |
| 15 | But that 's , I mean that 's what you 've got to start from , from doing the counting and then getting to right it out , how much have got there ? |
| 16 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
| 17 | In this Jarmusch does not follow the cinematic norm of letting a sequence develop to a climax and then cutting to another sequence . |
| 18 | The performing mode , therefore , is continually in a state of tension between representing ( describing ) an experience and actually submitting to ‘ being ’ in the experience . |
| 19 | Derrida , of course , endorses this formulation , but stresses the principle of arbitrariness and differences as against the notion of the sign itself , since it risks degenerating into an entity and thus reverting to a metaphysical concept . |