Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 're still , they were still keeping to their aims of achieving greater equality , it was just not absolute equality egalitarianism . |
| 2 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 3 | And it can get awkward when people take things too Literally — you say , ‘ Hello , how are you ? ’ and twenty minutes later you 're still listening to their philosophy of life . |
| 4 | The law ought , in my opinion , to give relief if satisfied that consent was truly lacking but will require of signers even in this class that they act responsibly and carefully according to their circumstances in putting their signature to legal documents . |
| 5 | Two men who had come in to quaff down great glasses of cidre were now returning to their scythes in a field opposite , to join a line of sodden reapers there . |
| 6 | One way of summarizing the results of European economic progress before 1914 is to group nations roughly according to their increase in wealth . |
| 7 | The Begum family had rung a pizza delivery service three times on Saturday night when it was late delivering to their home in Heelands in Milton Keynes . |
| 8 | The first views a wealth tax as in paragraphs 1 or 2 , as a way of capturing income , with the object under this heading being to reduce the feedback effect of large wealth holders enjoying higher incomes and therefore adding to their wealth by saving . |