Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICI has also developed specialised equipment , such as ‘ Cleanseal ’ and ‘ Cleanzone ’ , which can reduce solvent losses by up to 90 per cent , so minimising emissions to the environment . |
| 2 | During Mrs Thatcher 's eleven and a half years in power , journalists were mostly fawning courtiers to the Queen of Downing Street . |
| 3 | We indicated in the original report that leisure electronics generalists such as Seiko , Smith-Corona , Texas Instruments , and Aurora were hurriedly investing in spellchecker products and rapidly bringing ranges to the market at much lower prices than either Franklin or SelecTronics . |
| 4 | Its philosophy is still developing , but it 's now a very concrete operation — £2 million has already been committed to 18 research projects in the UK , the Netherlands , Eire and the US , and we are still adding projects to the list . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it is sometimes useful to distinguish between consumption spending ( meaning the actual amount spent on new consumer goods in the current period ) and total consumption ( meaning the ‘ using up ’ of consumer goods — both those purchased in the current period and those purchased in past periods but which are still providing services to the household ) . |
| 6 | But in the absence of the central sense of being — that is , in unconsciousness — the sensory and motor functions are quite inactive , even if the sense organs are still conveying messages to the brain . |
| 7 | An algorithm for automatically scheduling additions to the Chart onto the Agenda for subsequent processing ( the Fundamental Rule ) . |
| 8 | The former contradiction , which Marx describes as ‘ the fundamental contradiction of developed capitalism ’ , is one between the social character of production , with its tendency towards unlimited development of the productive forces , and the private ownership of the means of production ( and therefore private appropriation of the product ) from which derives the aim of maintaining and increasing the value of capital itself , and hence setting limits to the expansion of production . |
| 9 | The interactionist approach has , for instance , been very important in explorations of ‘ deviant ’ or unorthodox sexuality , particularly directing researchers to the significance of labelling events and the importance of subcultural responses . ’ |
| 10 | ALL members of the Pension Scheme will have received an announcement recently detailing changes to the Scheme Rules . |