Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CVR , besides contributing to the fund of knowledge about the flight , has provided the investigators with an insight into the way the flight crew were thinking and interpreting the indications of the progress of the flight by means of the things they said to each other , and sometimes the things they did not say . |
| 2 | ( 6 ) The person to whom an occasional permission is granted shall ensure that the provisions of this Act or any byelaws or regulations made thereunder relating to the conduct of licensed premises are observed in the premises or place in respect of which the permission was granted as if he were the holder of a public house licence , and if he contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence : Provided that it shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under this subsection if he proves that he used due diligence to prevent the occurrence of the offence . |
| 3 | Erm , the agency has considered a paper on this as is referred to in the final paragraph , what it 's basically suggesting to the Department of the Environment and the Home Office is , is that a formula is based upon the supply factors er , such as the , the number of fire stations and standard crew levels etcetera . |
| 4 | This was perhaps the most directly inflationary aspect of Pitt 's financial management , and the bridging of the gap between income and expenditure was not helped by his stubbornly sticking to the idea of the Sinking Fund . |
| 5 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 6 | Others have set up one-year and two-year training courses in church planting , encouraging those being trained to pay for the privilege and so contributing to the financing of church planting , as well as providing workers in training . |
| 7 | Although their long galleries and multitude of rooms provided a greater degree of privacy for the gentry families , the homes were still very much public places , the more so according to the rank of the owner . |
| 8 | The lighter the line the less stiff it is , and the more supple the line the more the bait will behave naturally according to the nuances of the current . |
| 9 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 10 | The qualities required of interviewers will vary greatly according to the complexities of interview schedules used and also the degree of informality permitted in the interviews . |
| 11 | It was appreciated at an early stage that the efficacy of collocational information could vary greatly according to the domain from which it was taken . |
| 12 | ‘ A judicial view of modern legislation ’ is a title ingeniously contrived to embrace little or much according to the predilection of the speaker and the patience of his audience . |
| 13 | Cut the salmon into thinnish steaks , arrange them in one layer in a well-buttered baking dish , sprinkle them with salt and seasonings , add about I oz. of fresh butter , cut in pieces , for every pound of salmon , cover the dish with buttered paper and a lid , and put to cook in the centre of a moderately heated oven , gas no. 3 , 330 F. In 45 to 50 minutes — a little more or less according to the thickness of the steaks — the salmon will be cooked . |
| 14 | The remainder , together with the open arable field , he divided into small squarish fields of eight to twelve acres each ( sometimes more or less according to the convenience of the farmers ) and parcelled out as farms among his tenants . |
| 15 | The colour may be varied perhaps according to the type of tools put out with it ; ‘ natural ’ for pastry cutters and patty tins , for instance . |
| 16 | And it works well , the fine cracks in its surface merely adding to the character of the bass . |
| 17 | Quite apart from the side-effects of pharmaceutical drugs , which seem to be reported with increasing frequency these days , it may well turn out that such therapies have the less obvious effect of further imbalancing the body 's mechanisms , so adding to the burden of chronic ill-health . |
| 18 | The people in tighter financial circumstances get higher cost credit — with the extra cost of credit obviously adding to the tightness of their circumstances . |
| 19 | Although many go unrecognized , stray finds are more commonly discovered than sites , and every one is potentially important , adding to archaeological evidence , and perhaps leading to the discovery of a new site . |
| 20 | Such a move would have been legitimate if it had offered the possibility of new kinds of experimental tests , perhaps leading to the discovery of some unexpected feature of the earth 's atmosphere . |
| 21 | Spokesman Sylvia Rigby said : ‘ They seem to think we are only objecting to the level of the charge but we are against it all together . ’ |
| 22 | Other vulnerable countries face heavy expenditures , cancelling out any savings made in defence budgets — around one trillion dollars a year globally — following the end of the cold war and perhaps rising to the levels of expenditures experienced in a war . |
| 23 | The bank depreciates its PCs over five years , giving the IT department greater incentive to reallocate rather than junk older PCs , perhaps pointing to the role of the accountant in determining a modular policy . |
| 24 | In such activities , there are assumed to be some INVARIANT elements which have to be performed ( eg conforming to the rules of tennis ) , but that there are VARIANT ways in which the individual may perform them ( eg in choice of backhands , forehands , volleys ) . |
| 25 | And this week , when he rebuked the ‘ adulterers in public life ’ — apparently alluding to the behaviour of Government ministers and the Royal Family — his aides in Lambeth Palace immediately tried to defuse the effect of his speech . |
| 26 | The United States cases are in one sense less threatening to the policy of the Convention , in that typically they do involve the actual delivery of the relevant document rather than some notional equivalent such as publication at the courthouse door . |
| 27 | I undressed her in her South Kensington hotel room and fucked her , only retreating to the safety of the street outside when she asked me to stay the night so that she could pretend to be my mother . |
| 28 | Apparently responding to the suggestion of a conservative shift in his policies , however , Gorbachev during the last engagement of his Byelorussian tour on Feb. 28 told a meeting in Mogilev that a centrist political coalition , avoiding the extreme positions of both radicals and hardliners , was needed to resolve the country 's problems . |
| 29 | By contrast , when Paul envisages a relationship of conciliation in marriage , a working together for common goals , the practical out-working involves both partners in constantly adjusting to the needs of the other . |
| 30 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |