Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Langbaurgh Constituency Labour Party is calling on Labour councils to unite against moves towards super regional police forces and any suggestion of handing over policing to private security firms . |
| 3 | In the UK , emissions of man-made hydrocarbons or VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) increased 12 per cent in the ten years to 1985 , largely owing to increased road traffic . |
| 4 | Severe chronic constipatiown was defined as constipation without bowel obstruction , lasting for more than 18 months , not responding to high fibre diets , with less than two bowel movements per week and without an alternating bowel habit ( diarrhoea and constipation ) . |
| 5 | Israel 's tourist industry is gradually recovering to pre-Gulf War levels , according to latest Israeli Government statistics . |
| 6 | In some areas of the world , e.g. West Africa , it is helpful to file words not only alphabetically but also according to major word classes , because nouns and verbs have different phonological structures . |
| 7 | All very worrying , especially since the only sleep I lost in the real Gulf War was in staying up listening to late-night doomsday discussions on Channel 4 . |
| 8 | In addition to the foul stench it produces , it is also damaging to sensitive mucous membranes . |
| 9 | It should therefore be advertised internally and externally according to agreed recruitment practices , to adhere to CA 's equal opportunities policy . |
| 10 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |
| 11 | Hearing British voices talking about anything from politics to music , even listening to old comedy shows , felt like the first step home . |
| 12 | It appeared that prosperity was being spread around according to classic distributist models , and that the Conservative aspiration of a ‘ property-owning democracy ’ had largely come about since 1945 . |
| 13 | Drug abuse is spreading alarmingly fast according to recent government figures . |
| 14 | To overcome such effects brews are increasingly turning to preprepared hop extracts of one form or another . |
| 15 | Information on the credit terms and methods of payment currently applying to particular business sectors in the foreign market . |
| 16 | PARSYTEC APPLIES PARALLEL PROCESSING TO OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION |