Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , they do seem to stress the way the changes in democratic practices were merely responding to the need to adapt the US model to Japanese values as though there were a collectively agreed set of values to call upon . |
| 2 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 3 | She told the Opposition 's Lord Carter that farmers often worked in isolation and were traditionally independent , ‘ possibly leading to a reluctance to seek help at time of depression . |
| 4 | She was still whispering to the gibbon to soothe it , but her innocent face was puzzled , as though she could not quite grasp everything that had happened . |
| 5 | At daybreak , though , they passed out into the ocean proper , still heating to the north-west to get out of the miserable cold . |
| 6 | Let us deal with the suggestion that it would be psychologically damaging to the country to show that the House condones homosexuality . |
| 7 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |
| 8 | Many of the cases involve compassionate assistance , of the kind which may be necessary and justifiable if the right to self-determination is to have any meaning for those who are weak or bedridden ( e.g. responding to a request to bring pills ) , but not all are like this . |
| 9 | They milled together and dismounted , the two Myrcans immediately running to the rear to intercept the pursuit . |