Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the stage to take decisive action , because by ignoring this threat gesture , you are merely acquiescing to the dog s challenge , and adopting a subordinate position . |
| 2 | At the top end there are the programs that seek to reproduce the environment found within a traditional art studio ; PageMaker , XPress and the now defunct Harvard Professional Publisher most closely fit this category , while products such as Ventura seek to provide the same typographic quality through a stylesheet and coded tags so appealing to the business user who needs an easily produced document which follows a common format . |
| 3 | It supports up to 15 drives per controller pair , thus appearing to the host computers as several very large SCSI-2 devices . |
| 4 | OCLC waives its charges for the use of most services , thus contributing to the teaching resources of participating schools . |
| 5 | There is an argument about whether 2 million homes have disappeared or are still there , occupied , thus contributing to the housing stock . |
| 6 | I spent it on a bike , carried on doing a paper round , and by the time I was 14 , I was already contributing to the family coffers . |
| 7 | How many other twenty-two-year-olds stayed in on a Saturday night just listening to the rain hurl itself against the windows ? |
| 8 | Thus according to the Child Poverty Action Group ( CPAG ) ‘ poverty is viewed in relation to a generally accepted standard of living in a particular society that goes beyond basic physical needs ’ to include ‘ broader social and cultural needs ’ as well . |
| 9 | However , despite the existence of these theoretical quotas agreed at OPEC Conferences or at meetings of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee ( MMC-see p. 36573 ) , actual aggregate output was generally understood to have been well in excess of quota ; thus according to the Petroleum Economist OPEC production was estimated to have averaged 21,672,000 bpd in the second half of 1988 , 21,266,000 bpd in the first half of 1989 and about 23,000,000 bpd in the third quarter of 1989 . |
| 10 | Tadpoles normally feed on plankton and decaying plant material suspended in the water and shoals may effectively stir up the debris at the bottom of the pond , thus adding to the food supply . |
| 11 | In his words , he ‘ sold ’ himself to the Norwich City Football Club , persistently going to the training ground when aged 14 and 15 , until the club offered him an apprentice 's contract . |
| 12 | Out of £100 rent the tenant will have paid the Revenue , under deduction , £25 thus remitting to the trust £75 . |
| 13 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 14 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 15 | They 're gon na catch me ’ and he was just talking to the film crew and not the camera and was not conscious of the fact there was probably 14 million people watching it . |
| 16 | Such a combination made Magritte 's work immensely appealing to the Pop Art movement and to the advertising industry , to the artist 's continuing annoyance . |
| 17 | Note Clock Tower and track to right leading to the Cricket Green , just beyond the block of shops . |
| 18 | The Communist parties inevitably lost credibility as a result of staunchly adhering to the Comintern line throughout the series of volte-face involved in the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 and the subsequent German invasion of Soviet Russia in June 1941 . |
| 19 | , Swedish scientists have called attention to the large amount of halon gas , hundreds of times more damaging to the ozone layer than CFCs , which was used in the gulf war . |
| 20 | Bromine , the atom in halons which makes them effective fire fighters , also renders them three times more damaging to the ozone layer than the better known chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) , used in aerosols and refrigerators . |
| 21 | The campaign has been launched in part because of what Greenpeace calls the government 's failure to back alternatives to chlorine-based technology and instead to encourage the use of HCFCs , which are still damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 22 | All that remains of the 18C building once belonging to the Thun family are the portals by Santini . |
| 23 | Of course not ; at that stage , they were still clinging to the poll tax . |
| 24 | Smiths are , unfortunately , helping to bolster up all those cruds still clinging to the starting line and holding the starting gun . |
| 25 | He wove these and other influences from Florentine contemporaries into a distinctive manner , at once responding to the plastic values of Donatello but never renouncing an almost calligraphic approach to outlines and drapery . |
| 26 | When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later , Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard . |
| 27 | Also capitulating to the student protesters , television director-general Pavel Pisarev resigned on July 5 . |
| 28 | Well it should dry out later according to the weather forecast . |
| 29 | HCFCs are also damaging to the ozone layer , albeit less so than CFCs . |
| 30 | So instead of automatically going to the timber yard and buying new timber , how about looking around at potential sources of second-hand timber and giving the poor old environment a helping hand ? |