Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is happening to our famous chalk cliffs ? |
| 2 | Local artist Hazel Albarn has been working with ten and 11-year-olds and their teachers , helping them design and create large sculptures relating to their other work topics . |
| 3 | We were therefore very pleased to be notified of the RoSPA Gold Award for Occupational Safety relating to our 1992 safety record , which will be awarded in May of this year . |
| 4 | In the late and post-Roman periods , this commercial economy was disrupted and abandoned , returning to its former subsistence level . |
| 5 | Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 7 | Kerr , returning to his favoured scrum-half position , was the best player for Ipswich |
| 8 | Public spending came to take a larger share of the nation 's resources even though each service was keeping to its real volume target . |
| 9 | He found it ‘ intolerable ’ to think of the toys falling into the hands of other children — ‘ The idea of a crowd of embryo right wee fellas ’ ' getting hold of them and Bolshevising and applying to their own base purposes that well-ordered world in which we spent so many happy hours ’ . |
| 10 | Writing in the Radio Times in 1930 , the novelist Winifred Holtby , feminist and friend of Vera Brittain , recalled listening to her first football commentary : |
| 11 | Pastimes include listening to his vast record collection , cooking , photography and snooker . |
| 12 | Then he locked the suite door and stumbled back to bed , listening to his drugged head whine like the empty telephone line . |
| 13 | In the small back room Danny Tanner sat listening to his old friend Billy Sullivan 's problems . |
| 14 | SITRATERCO had originally demanded a 60 per wage increase but , according to its general secretary Nicolas Rivera , it accepted a government-mediated offer of 25 per cent following the Army 's intervention " to protect the lives of our members " . |
| 15 | According to its standard spending assessment , Manchester needs 69 per cent . |
| 16 | In the 1950s and 60s he took over or formed a number of firms — Sun Resta Ltd , Multi Resta Ltd , Sleepy Valley Ltd etc , and one , Multi Spring Ltd in Mitcham Surrey , which according to its headed note paper are ‘ contractors to HM Government ’ . |
| 17 | In September last year , President Ershad set up a national committee which , according to its own press release , intends to ‘ restore honour and dignity to the tribal peoples ’ by withdrawing the army , banning further immigration and returning the land which had been ‘ illegally and fraudulently ’ seized . |
| 18 | According to its own market forecast charts , Data General Corp 's next-generation Motorola Inc 88110-based AViiONs will deliver from 200 MIPS to 800 MIPS , retail from between $200,000 and $350,000 and are due to arrive by next spring . |
| 19 | She crammed more living into her 30 years than most people experience in two lifetimes , according to her heartbroken parents Ken and Diana . |
| 20 | Collaboration with the research team of St Mary 's Department of General Practice , Paddington is also planned , to investigate the association between the classification of localities according to their Under-Privileged Areas Index and individual morbidity reported in the HRG surveys . |
| 21 | Touche believes the balance sheet treatment of capitalising expenditure on players ' registrations as an intangible asset has commercial logic , but does not favour revaluing players ' registrations in the accounts according to their current market worth . |
| 22 | AEs at one futures bucket shop cheered or hissed colleagues in the early morning , according to their individual sales figures on the previous day . |
| 23 | Instead of all the securities forming an opportunity set they are now ranged along the security market line according to their individual beta values . |
| 24 | So presumably , other creatures are simply talking and communicating about the world according to their particular mind configurations . |
| 25 | Finally , a number of quantitative analyses are carried out , including a variable rule analysis of the probability of speakers using one variant or the other , according to their linguistic market indices ( cf. 5.3.2 ) . |
| 26 | Within any major class characterized on the basis of its gating properties subclasses can be defined according to their ionic selectivity , but also according to their er pharmacological properties , and especially as we 'll see in a second , according to their single channel conductance . |
| 27 | Although , as we have noted , women are much less likely than men to select back variants of /a/ , this generally lower level of use does not prevent individual women from varying their realization of /a/ , within the female norms , according to their social network structure . |
| 28 | It was then the heyday of ‘ stimulus-response ’ theories of animal behaviour , according to which all behaviour patterns are learned responses to associated stimuli . |
| 29 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 30 | We talk about the world according to our human mind configuration . |