Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] to the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the dilemma of the polluting industry is that controlling pollution is expensive , but adds nothing to the value of the goods produced , and is bad business for any firm whose main concern is to maintain profitability in a competitive situation . ’ |
| 2 | For example , if a machine includes a computer program it is then a question of whether the machine , without taking the computer program into account , adds anything to the state of the art . |
| 3 | It alerts one to the importance of contextual factors such as those relating to the institution 's regulations , resources and ethos . |
| 4 | But that means nothing to the army of unemployed and to threatened companies which would rather have any work than none , or to politicians caught up in righteous anger at ‘ unfair ’ competition . |
| 5 | Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster . |