Example sentences of "to [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Until recently no one seems to have considered that in addition to filtering lymph , the fluid may also be pushed along by the lymph nodes — despite these structures being the most prominent features of the system . |
2 | When it comes to mobilising support , the left wing has few lessons to learn . |
3 | Category by category , more than a third of Soviet goods measured by value ( from sewing machines and locomotive cranes to coking equipment ) are produced in a single factory . |
4 | Here 's a typical example of a Viz comic strip : Dad gets a new putter for Christmas and says ( to onlooking wife and guffawing son ) , ‘ Oh ! |
5 | In two different places in Monsieur de Pourceaugnac he switches in the space of a breath from performing a solo for soprano to singing bass in a duet or trio . |
6 | It was at this point , when I was twelve years old , that I took to reading junk books the way some people take to eating junk food . |
7 | Then , when I started to get into it I felt kind of holy , y'know , ‘ I 'm eating this good food ’ , but behind that was the desire continually to revert to eating junk food ( and I do ) because I am emotionally dependent on it . |
8 | Most horses who are used to eating grain , if given the opportunity like an open feed room door , will eat too much . |
9 | We have talked about antecedent events , behaviour , and consequences as applied to eating behaviour and dieting . |
10 | Ten per cent of Britons profess to eating meat only rarely and nearly 50 per cent agreed that they much less than they used to . |
11 | It is difficult at the best of times to persuade consumers to try a new product , but when it is more expensive than rump steak the problem is exacerbated , particularly when one of the undeniable attractions of vegetarianism is that it is such a cheap alternative to eating meat . |
12 | There is no evidence that a rise in cases of the fatal brain illness Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( CJD ) over the past two years is linked to eating meat infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) , according to the UK Department of Health . |
13 | used to eating ice cream in-hand , out of doors ; |
14 | ‘ Very well , ’ said the Commandant , ‘ I am afraid all the food is gone and we are now reduced to eating camel dung . ’ |
15 | She was looking forward to eating chocolate . |
16 | Although among Buddhists there was a negative connotation attached to eating beef , contemporaries thought that more and more Sinhalese included it in their diets . |
17 | They believe that 's directly linked to their exposure to ionising radioation . |
18 | In recent years , radon has been recognised as the main source of human exposure to ionising radiation . |
19 | A study on the risks of chronic occupational exposure to ionising radiation has established a statistically significant association between leukaemia mortality and radiation dose . |
20 | The [ First analysis of the National Registry for Radiation Workers — occupational exposure to ionising radiation and mortality ] , published by the National Radiological Protection Board , includes over 95 000 workers from the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston , British Nuclear Fuels , the Ministry of Defence , Nuclear Electric and the UK Atomic Energy Authority . |
21 | Parents ' employment by the nuclear industry and exposure to ionising radiation at work . |
22 | Employees who work in areas where exposure to ionising radiation is possible are issued with personal film badges or other dosimeters to monitor their exposure . |
23 | The malignancies in children whose fathers were monitored for exposure to ionising radiation were not unusual . |
24 | No mother of a case had worked at a nuclear establishment before her child 's conception , and no mother had a record of being monitored for exposure to ionising radiation at any time before diagnosis ( table V ) . |
25 | All four case children whose fathers were monitored for exposure to ionising radiation were born within this 10 km circle . |
26 | The questionnaire administered to parents included specific questions about work at nuclear establishments and monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation . |
27 | Employees ' reports of monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation agreed with the industrial records , except for one mother of a case who reported being monitored , but there was no record of this in the industry databases . |
28 | Our results can be interpreted as supporting Gardner and colleagues ' finding in that the fathers of three ( out of 54 ) cases and two ( out of 324 ) controls had been monitored for exposure to ionising radiation before their child was conceived ( relative risk 9.0 , 1.0 to 107.8 ) . |
29 | Information about parental employment and monitoring for exposure to ionising radiation was obtained from nuclear industry files and is likely to be complete and unbiased . |
30 | On the basis of estimates of the size and composition of the nuclear workforces in the study area , national fertility rates , and local migration rates , we estimate that the expected numbers of control fathers who were employed and monitored for exposure to ionising radiation are in broad agreement with the numbers observed . |