Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MADONNA , EMF , GEORGE MICHAEL , LISA STANSFIELD and SEAL are among artists contributing to a new AIDS benefit LP . |
| 2 | For example , if the business is heavily dependent on numerous long-term contracts , a purchaser may decide to investigate the contracts equating to a specified percentage of the turnover of the business plus one or two minor contracts . |
| 3 | Critical Path Analysis is a computer programme into which variables relating to a particular project are fed . |
| 4 | If there are special risks relating to a particular transaction which are not brought out in the Risk Warning Notice , these must be specifically disclosed . |
| 5 | HARPY 's use of a finite-state grammar permitted backwards pruning since a finite-state grammar has the property that any string of words leading to a given state is equivalent to any other string leading to that state as far as future states are concerned . |
| 6 | To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach . |
| 7 | Thus all the senses of mouth discussed earlier will represent lexical units belonging to a single lexeme . |
| 8 | Animals belonging to a dangerous species |
| 9 | The definition of ‘ keeper ’ for this head of liability is the same as that for animals belonging to a dangerous species . |
| 10 | As for animals belonging to a dangerous species , a camel has been held to be such because it may cause severe injury by kicking and biting , but strict liability was imposed for injuries suffered by falling off the camel because of its irregular gait . |
| 11 | Similarly , if we could trace back the ancestry of all the genes in existing mice , through successive replications , for the same long period , we would expect to find those genes in animals belonging to a single species . |
| 12 | Analysis of teachers ' responses will seek groupings of activities according to a common pattern of use . |
| 13 | Drought , which had seriously affected the country between 1987 and 1989 and had led to severe job losses , remained a problem , the resulting need to increase food imports contributing to a rising trade deficit ( which for the period January to July 1990 totalled US$1,125 million , an increase of 35 per cent on the corresponding period in 1989 ) and expected to offset any gains from higher prices for oil exports . |
| 14 | The project aims to investigate the methodology of establishing interactive microprocessor and large computer models relating to a wide range of topics in environmental technology decision-making and to develop representative models . |
| 15 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 16 | Almost unknown in the region at this time were the tiny freeholds conventionally linked with the proliferation of paupers , whether cottagers clinging to a precarious independence , or young men waiting to come into their patrimony . |
| 17 | I saw the engine powerfully at work , its wires running to a monstrous figure , about which the scientist flitted in nervous excitement , Presently the figure sat up in its bandages . |
| 18 | She was also invited to become a " consultant to the government on a special committee which was to begin discussions leading to a national council for teacher training . |
| 19 | Otherwise it is rather like spending several days journeying to a famous tourist site , but when we get there only allowing ourselves 20 minutes to see it . |
| 20 | Not so long ago , Western man believed that the Earth was flat , that the Earth was the centre of the universe , and that God had created the Earth in seven days according to a literal interpretation of a creation myth given in an old Jewish book . |
| 21 | Plastic additives will become more expensive over the next five years according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan . |
| 22 | Voters therefore list candidates according to preference , as with the alternative vote — but their vote transfers according to a different principle . |
| 23 | In his highly condensed and powerful analysis , Buckley ( 1984 ) details how the siege becomes interpreted by today 's protestant loyalists according to a key paradigm mediating their experience of the world . |
| 24 | A high proportion of the oldest books are Gospel books or Psalters , several of them with vernacular glosses and translations testifying to a low level of Latinity ; testifying too to their close connection with the Anglo-Saxon dynasty in the gifts of such benefactors as King Athelstan . |
| 25 | Fears of flooding , explosion , fire or a terrorist attack are just four reasons pointing to a big boycott when the tunnel opens in autumn 1993 . |
| 26 | In other places we find Whig crowds retaliating to a Tory initiative . |
| 27 | DETECTIVES are investigating the theft of £300,000 of gems belonging to a high-class madam from the home of actor David Niven 's son . |
| 28 | Over 150 police raided the PDS headquarters without a search warrant early on Oct. 18-19 to investigate allegations that the party had transferred DM107,000,000 to accounts belonging to a Soviet company , Putnik , in Norway and the Netherlands without the required authorization . |
| 29 | It is mere speculation on my part — and probably an oversimplification — that the confusing post-war crop of art styles in America grew out of refugee Europeans reacting to a strange land . |
| 30 | The powers attaching to a Prime Minister are considerable , but what can we make of the thesis about prime ministerial government ? |