Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rural-urban migrants were able to take advantage of the former , often sending financial assistance back to their relatives in the countryside and so contributing to increased income levels there . |
| 2 | Not all the effects of the privity doctrine are necessarily damaging to third party purchasers or creditors . |
| 3 | But it may not be enough according to some industry commentators . |
| 4 | In the UK , emissions of man-made hydrocarbons or VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) increased 12 per cent in the ten years to 1985 , largely owing to increased road traffic . |
| 5 | The boy behind pulled Roy 's chair away leading to another hospital admission . |
| 6 | Rich and LuperFoy ( 1988 ) , observing that no individual theory of anaphor resolution is complete , present a blackboard-like architecture ( with a relatively simple control structure ) into which implementations of different partial theories , each normally corresponding to one knowledge source , can be plugged for the purposes of evaluation . |
| 7 | Israel 's tourist industry is gradually recovering to pre-Gulf War levels , according to latest Israeli Government statistics . |
| 8 | ’ I was mostly reporting to that woman leader , Sergia ’ |
| 9 | In some areas of the world , e.g. West Africa , it is helpful to file words not only alphabetically but also according to major word classes , because nouns and verbs have different phonological structures . |
| 10 | In addition to the foul stench it produces , it is also damaging to sensitive mucous membranes . |
| 11 | It should therefore be advertised internally and externally according to agreed recruitment practices , to adhere to CA 's equal opportunities policy . |
| 12 | It is one in which young people often start life in improved or ‘ gentrified ’ housing in inner urban areas , thence progressing to large family homes in the outer suburbs and later retiring to a house purpose-made for well-off home owners . |
| 13 | Hearing British voices talking about anything from politics to music , even listening to old comedy shows , felt like the first step home . |
| 14 | Drug abuse is spreading alarmingly fast according to recent government figures . |
| 15 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 16 | To overcome such effects brews are increasingly turning to preprepared hop extracts of one form or another . |
| 17 | Information on the credit terms and methods of payment currently applying to particular business sectors in the foreign market . |
| 18 | PARSYTEC APPLIES PARALLEL PROCESSING TO OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION |