Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [v-ing] to a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | American troops were deployed more or less according to a plan , Operation 90–1002 , developed in the early-1980s to contain a southward thrust by the Soviet Union . |
2 | Le Monde of Oct. 5 , 1989 , reported that Parliament had approved a law allowing the establishment of local private television stations and thereby bringing to an end the state broadcasting monopoly . |
3 | That magnificent engineering achievement the Humber Bridge is further opening up the area , improving communications and eventually leading to an East Coast motorway , linking up with newly completed roads on the north bank . |
4 | Notions of what it means to read are much more diverse , encompassing more than a judgement on the text , and always referring to an interplay between text and the discursive space in which judgements about it are formed . |
5 | With the opening of the Channel Tunnel becoming a reality , and hopefully leading to a rise in rail traffic , one can not help thinking that had the magnificiently engineered GCR survived the troubled 1960's this would have been the chosen route for this traffic . |
6 | The number of second homes in existence is surprisingly uncertain , partly because of problems of definition and partly owing to a reticence on the part of owners to advertise themselves in view of the possible local opposition . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | First , they will be required to distribute most ( possibly around three-quarters ) of these funds ( the ‘ aggregated schools budget ’ ) between schools strictly and even-handedly according to a formula , to be devised by each LEA but requiring approval by the DES . |
9 | Ben had hardly put his feet on the ground when , from the side of the house , there emerged what appeared to be a mob of children coming at them in a rush and then skidding to a halt about three yards distant . |
10 | Their handbags are shopping bags , their holidays are day trips , and occasionally going to a son or daughter . |
11 | ( According to the so-called " linking rule " , a spell of employment lasting less than this time is considered an interruption to a single spell of unemployment , whilst a spell of employment lasting longer than this but then coming to an end opens up a new spell of unemployment . ) |