Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 This is one of the most critical manouevres in day to day driving .
2 Staff from hotel and catering management , for example , take practical classes of catering students on introductory computing modules and carry out exercises with spreadsheets and other commercial packages with applications to food costing or in use in hotel front office computer systems .
3 Not only were customary tenants in the West Country , for instance , powerless to resist rising fines , it is quite feasible that everywhere the land was , to a great extent , actually cultivated by leaseholders or tenants from year to year paying an economic rent .
4 The speed of document production is extremely impressive ; I have assembled and printed a 280-page directory consisting of over 40 individual text files in little more than two hours from start to finish using this approach .
5 The relation between lifetime average lead concentration and IQ showed an inverse gradient , with an increase in lead levels from 10µg/dl to 30µg/dl showing a decrease in IQ of 4–5% .
6 On the opposite pavement , three West Indian boys waggled their bodies in time to music coming from a nearby shop .
7 The aim is to simplify and streamline existing techniques , and also to explore the use of expert systems as aids to decision making in this area .
8 In them , the police were not shot at by gunmen as in the home districts of the Provisional IRA , On the contrary , they were not only welcome , but received deputations from residents from time to time imploring them ‘ to take the gangsters off our backs ’ .
9 As in all rehearsal studios there were large mirrors from ceiling to floor enabling the Girls to see their mistakes .
10 Signals can be transmitted from the outside to the inside of cells in response to ligand binding , affecting second messengers and gene transcription , or from the inside to the outside of cells , modulating the binding affinity of cell adhesion molecules .
11 We have used the outside scale so far because all the angles left-right have been turns from left to right looking from the base line .
12 Now we use the inside scale for all angles with turns from right to left looking from the base line .
13 DSD was set up by 600 enterprises in response to legislation requiring industry to collect and recycle the packaging it produces .
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