Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will not affect anyone who was already contributing to a pension plan prior to July 1988 unless , that is , they actually wish to change . |
| 2 | Second , as the stores fill up , their buffering capacity will be reduced , thus leading to a pacemaker elevation of cytosolic calcium ( Fig. 4 b ) , which often appears at a specific initiation site where it provides the trigger to detonate the process of CICR ( Fig. 4 , step c ) . |
| 3 | Leaving the ever-increasing fitness demands on players aside , the chief weakness of the Sicily schedule was that it mixed a pool-based round-robin format , which creates a precise and fair hierarchy , with a league system , which reshuffles the pack and can end up rewarding skilful planning rather than success on the field , before finally moving to a knock-out format . |
| 4 | This is a shame , for although he 's admittedly playing to a club audience , you do n't have to suppress the songs to maintain the groove — and the doctor has proved with ‘ Killer ’ and tonight 's storming version of ‘ Flashback Jack ’ , that he has some potent stimulants in his black bag . |
| 5 | This is a shame , for although he 's admittedly playing to a club audience , you do n't have to suppress the songs to maintain the groove — and the doctor has proved with ‘ Killer ’ and tonight 's storming version of ‘ Flashback Jack ’ , that he has some potent stimulants in his black bag . |
| 6 | Bush had blocked or vetoed two bills before finally agreeing to a compromise formula which had extended benefits for 13 or 20 weeks beyond the standard 26 weeks of benefits provided under state unemployment programmes [ see pp. 38428 ; 38521 ; 38568 ] . |
| 7 | The formation of properly constituted county clubs , eventually leading to a county championship structure , has led Dr Midwinter to place these developments firmly in the context of the social changes then taking place . |
| 8 | Frenchman Roger Yves Bost , a member of the French World Gold Medal winning team in 1990 , scorched round in a time more fitting to a speed class . |
| 9 | It 's like going to a firework factory and sparking up a cigarette you just would n't do it would you ? |
| 10 | In most parts of the world the standard duration of therapy is considered to be 12–16 weeks , usually leading to a response rate of 30–40% , . |
| 11 | It suggests that the system should be replaced with an interest-based penalty , possibly rising to a deterrent rate , which would discourage late payment due to neglect and ‘ playing the system ’ , without unduly penalising those who are genuinely unable to pay or small businesses , which are usually less organised and therefore bear the greater brunt of penalties . |
| 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 | The possibilities opened up are exceptionally exciting and realisable provided certain strange notions of academic freedom ( in this case often amounting to a student fishing desperately around for an ‘ original ’ and totally useless subject like the history of his old school ) , can be avoided . |
| 14 | He says he is praying for rain , but is n't yet resorting to a rain dance . |
| 15 | I stammered out my history , my eyes occasionally wandering to a winter view of rooftops , an opaque winter sky behind his head . |
| 16 | He declared : ‘ You 'd have been safer belaying to a daffodil stalk ! ’ . |