Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation . |
| 2 | Grand jury documents relating to the forthcoming trial of former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger showed that , at a Reagan Cabinet meeting in January 1986 , Bush had voted in favour of secretly selling missiles to Iran in exchange for the release of US hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon . |
| 3 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 4 | In addition , this was at a time when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , was also giving protection to opponents of Eardwulf . |
| 5 | Only hours later fighting spread to Zagreb with an air force attack on a suburb and a television tower and fighting around besieged barracks . |
| 6 | The trial opened in Linz on April 4 , 1990 , of 18 executives of the state-owned Voest-Alpine engineering group and its subsidiary Noricum for illegally supplying arms to Iran via third countries in 1984-86 , during the Iran-Iraq war , in contravention of Austria 's neutral status [ see pp. 35792 ; 36561 ] . |
| 7 | But there are many more affordable and comfortable holidays in Inghams ' brochures too , with good four-star hotels typically costing £400 to £550 for a week 's half-board holiday out of peak season . |
| 8 | It was not until 1966 that the transcontinental standard-gauge line was completed , thereby connecting Sydney to Perth without break of gauge for the first time . |
| 9 | Furthermore , extensive spreads of such seas can as effectively isolate pieces of emergent continent as spreading ocean floor , thereby creating barriers to migration of terrestrial organisms , and should also promote equability of the continental climate . |
| 10 | Are they actually helping people to maturity in Christ ? |
| 11 | It was a ‘ sad indictment ’ that some reporting accountants had evidently been issuing unqualified reports in circumstances subsequently giving rise to claims on the fund . |
| 12 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |
| 13 | Chair , on the recommendations erm on item D , I 'm a bit unhappy about the use of the term ‘ natural ’ disasters , because I believe that many of the disasters that people in Oxford are actually giving money for are man made disasters , particularly matters of international economics and the unfair burden , erm unfair distribution of wealth which places a whole sector of the world in poverty , and I think , you know , you do get a magnificent response from people in Oxford to these charities , and we must be aware that there are a whole number of greater issues involved , and while I hear what you 're saying earlier on about you ca n't take on the problems of the whole world , I think when people are actually giving money to charities for example , like Oxfam , they are often unaware of these issues , and we do have a wider role in making the , joining with organisations like Oxfam in spreading public awareness on these issues . |