Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is shown in sample 2 , where six stitches have been used , but you can see nine stitches just as easily according to yarn and tension . |
| 2 | Maybe if we were teaching them properly they would know how to protest without just resorting to violence or vandalism of some type , without the first step being breaking the rules ; but we do n't . |
| 3 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 4 | In these languages all nouns are classified ( they are in many other languages too ) , often according to shape and size . |
| 5 | Even this type of housing , however , is not always allocated solely according to need and council tenants are expected to pay economic rents , i.e. rents that would be charged in the private market . |
| 6 | When it comes to referral anecdotal reports suggest that informal gratuities are being paid by specialists to doctors for referring patients , potentially leading to overinvestigation and overtreatment . |
| 7 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |