Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is shown in sample 2 , where six stitches have been used , but you can see nine stitches just as easily according to yarn and tension . |
| 2 | Pushers were already selling to children and crime would soar as addicts sought money for drugs . |
| 3 | Maybe if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest without just resorting to violence or vandalism of some type , without the first step being breaking the rules ; but we do n't . |
| 4 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 5 | In these languages all nouns are classified ( they are in many other languages too ) , often according to shape and size . |
| 6 | Even this type of housing , however , is not always allocated solely according to need and council tenants are expected to pay economic rents , i.e. rents that would be charged in the private market . |
| 7 | Officials in Bucharest laugh at such a figure , but ordinary Romanians are so afraid of reprisals for even talking to foreigners that verification is impossible . |
| 8 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 9 | When it comes to referral anecdotal reports suggest that informal gratuities are being paid by specialists to doctors for referring patients , potentially leading to overinvestigation and overtreatment . |
| 10 | School buses have sometimes been used by adults , although not frequently — again , sometimes owing to routes and timing . |
| 11 | David Stone , vice president of software engineering , claimed that customers wanted to keep their options open , either moving to OSF/1 and Alpha in one fell swoop , or doing it piece meal , changing operating system and chipset one step at a time . |