Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Microsoft responded to Wabi saying it is ‘ proof that Windows NT is becoming a real threat to the Unix market . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp responded to Wabi saying that it is ‘ proof that Windows NT is becoming a real threat to the Unix market . |
| 3 | She remembered waking up in a long room filled with covered beds ; knocking a uniformed man to the ground ; taking his gun and running . |
| 4 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 5 | Anyone contributing a single lecture to a series like this — covering a wide spectrum of disciplines and addressed to a general audience — is bound to feel some anxiety and uncertainty about how their contribution will fit into its larger context . |
| 6 | The Norwegians certainly had the measure of this splendid music , each player contributing a full quota to a very relaxed and very rewarding performance , with only the damping effect of the Elmwood Hall 's heavy window curtains a minus factor . |
| 7 | Adopting a systematic approach to the analysis of the mismatches will help considerably in identifying them in future trials and deciding upon appropriate action . |
| 8 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 9 | There is an urgent need to consider adopting a healthy approach to the sun , bearing in mind the evidence of a thinning ozone layer . |
| 10 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 11 | Certainly , expecting that you will suffer from jet-lag hardly helps and this becomes an argument for adopting a positive attitude to the difficulties and knowing that they can be minimized by following the advice we give later . |
| 12 | An ‘ episode ’ is the name given to the smallest complete unit of teaching — this could be the teacher 's revision of the previous lesson 's work ( revision episode ) or explaining a particular point to the class ( explanation episode ) or coaching an individual child on a problem he is working on ( coaching episode ) , etc . |
| 13 | Mrs Goreng was returning a hand-held blow-drier to the shop which the proprietor , an elderly Chinese , had had the temerity to refuse earlier from her house-boy . |
| 14 | She slid obediently off the bar stool , bidding a civil good-morning to the café owner who looked , McLeish observed , as if he would willingly have swept her into his plump Italian embrace , and they walked together to the gates of New Scotland Yard . |
| 15 | The operation is well established ; there are no rejection problems and only size matters when matching a suitable valve to the patient 's heart . |
| 16 | As we saw in the previous section , a great problem for rule-based hypothesize-and-test systems is the difficulty of matching a higher-level description to a partially determined representation of the input . |
| 17 | The overall statistical significance of multicategorical variables was determined by applying a chi-squared test to the change in log likelihood ratios after withdrawal of all categories of the variable from the saturated model . |
| 18 | Thus when the HMI team says of Danish heads that ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ , they are in reality applying a British idea to a situation which it does not altogether fit . |
| 19 | By dipping the STM needle in a drop of organic molecules on a piece of graphite , and then briefly applying a large voltage to the tip , Dr John Foster and colleagues at IBM 's research laboratories in San Jose , California , have shown how to fix a single molecule at a specific point on the graphite . |
| 20 | The Fuller family 's neighbours felt they could n't let such an auspicious occasion pass without applying a little bunting to the brickwork . |
| 21 | Could I please quote from the Bargaining Report Document dated twenty seventh of April nineteen ninety three which says , and I quote , works councils , elected bodies representing the whole workforce are becoming an increasing interest to the U K trade unionists and this par this in part because of the growing awareness of industrial relation structures in the rest of the E C. |
| 22 | Such wide disparities in the social marginal cost of life-saving suggest that society might achieve significant gains in allocative efficiency by adopting an integrated approach to a cost-benefit analysis of health and safety regulations . |
| 23 | Is it not absolutely clear that the ’ next steps ’ agency approach of the 1980s proved extremely successful in improving accountability , promoting a better service to the public and giving agency employees greater job satisfaction ? |
| 24 | This has been an important influence in promoting a communicative approach to the teaching of languages . |
| 25 | The equivalent polonium could give an equivalent individual dose via ingesting local food of 0.57 rems implying a total dose to the UK of 5 million man-rems and a further dose to the continent of 0.5 million man-rems . |
| 26 | ‘ The legal advice required has varied from transacting a management buy-out and dismissing a senior director to a host of commercial contracts . |
| 27 | By according a special priority to the practice of science , the relationist and perspectival impact of the sociology of knowledge was made redundant . |
| 28 | IT began with the Prince of Wales 's celebrated remark , in a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1984 , likening a proposed extension to the National Gallery to ‘ a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a beloved friend ’ . |
| 29 | However , Pinchbeck is confident of extending the plateau by attacking opportunities in the main field through infill drilling and also developing a promising discovery to the north-west of the field . |
| 30 | The effort which the Conservative party put into developing a positive alternative to the new liberal collectivism was , apparently , all a gigantic fraud , a disguise for the individualist principles which Conservatives held in private . |