Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can ask : does he mean that the horizontal moon , perhaps owing to some magnifying effect of the earth 's atmosphere , actually presents a larger appearance than the meridian moon , or does he mean merely that it looks bigger , perhaps because it is seen in a context of trees and houses ? |
| 2 | I 'm just talking to this stupid microphone . |
| 3 | FOR progressively smaller values of T , until T is small alter the switches repeatedly according to this probabilistic rule . |
| 4 | Not now belonging to any Particular golf club , joining the Seniors was something I greatly looked forward to . |
| 5 | Being a member of the kingdom goes beyond simply belonging to any individual Church . |
| 6 | The team thus took a much more radical , class , view of the problems facing residents in working-class communities and did not see themselves simply responding to any educational need or demand : ‘ … the educationalist should be forced to recognise his responsibility to intervene positively and constructively not just respond to any demand ’ . |
| 7 | The fact , therefore , that much of art education is concerned with a direct pupil/teacher interaction , in which informal discussions about problems , and their possible resolution , establishes a crucial but essentially informal kind of diagnostic assessment , means that many art teachers view any externally imposed structure upon this process as not only irrelevant , but potentially damaging to that very quality of personal involvement and development that characterizes good work . |
| 8 | Cutaways are a means of bridging jump-cuts , that is interruptions or discontinuities in the action , by briefly cutting to some related subject before returning to the main subject . |
| 9 | Men often ‘ raise questions , and multiply disputes , which never coming to any clear resolution , are proper only to continue and increase their doubts , and to confirm them at last in perfect scepticism ’ . |