Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 2 | SPAR uses a variant of Crain & Steedman 's ( 1985 ) ‘ principle of referential success ’ , which states that a reading that succeeds in referring to an entity already established in the hearer 's model of the domain of discourse is favoured over one that does not . |
| 3 | And that too seems related to the solidarities of kinship and to the training in respect which comes with belonging to a lineage : in a sense , both cadres and ordinary Libyans seemed to share the assumption that loyalties of descent and domesticity were more important than differences of opinion . |
| 4 | Comes from listening to a lot of Country and Western music . ’ |
| 5 | You need to ask yourself what is so different when it comes to talking to an audience ? |