Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IDA eventually dropped the idea of Nad , according to evidence given at the An Bord Pleanala appeal , because most of the suitable land was held in common . |
| 2 | One of the two men accused of murdering a police informer was also a drugs dealer , according to evidence given by the prosecution on the second day of their trial . |
| 3 | According to evidence given in the trial , the Commandos of Sacrifice were a Nahda splinter group . |
| 4 | AWARRANT for the arrest of the former partner of Mr Peter Clowes was issued seven years before his Barlow Clowes investment empire collapsed , according to evidence submitted to the Parliamentary Ombudsman . |
| 5 | According to work done in the 1970s and 1980s , there could have been up to 32 in the rocks of Burgess shale alone , including many never seen anywhere else . |
| 6 | According to press reports at the time , Lori McElroy and her boyfriend claimed Nicholas and his friends had been a problem throughout the holiday . |
| 7 | Miss T. 's mother arrived at the hospital accompanied by C. Later that night , according to information given by the hospital to Miss T. 's father , Miss T. received more pethidine . |
| 8 | According to information issued by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in May 1991 , over 345,000 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) had been reported from 162 countries and territories as of April 1991 . |
| 9 | According to information released by the Russian government , between 1968 and 1982 the Soviet navy dumped 13 spent nuclear reactors and thousands of barrels of radioactive waste in the area . |
| 10 | If children were egocentric , the capacity to sustain an effective dialogue would be impossible , for this requires the ability to switch speaker and listener roles constantly , to monitor the effects of one 's messages , and to modify them according to feedback received from the listener . |
| 11 | According to research conducted in the US , nine out of ten people who buy a computer end up bitterly regretting the decision . |
| 12 | Sexual hormones in sewage can cause some fish to change sex , according to research funded by the UK Department of the Environment . |
| 13 | A significant decline in the numbers of some traditional bird species in the UK is due to modern farming methods , according to research published by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 14 | Young Gilbey 's passion was cars and he skipped going to university to move to the bright lights of London . |
| 15 | My youngest son , Joseph , is very interested in history , and we are going to Hue to look at the Imperial City and watch the emperor perform the traditional ceremonies of Tet . " |
| 16 | On Nov. 27 a warning had been issued to the government by France , the United Kingdom and the USA , to hand over two men suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie , Scotland , in December 1988 , and to co-operate in bringing to trial suspects in the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 [ see p. 39215 ] . |
| 17 | The crystal structure presented here suggests that GH5 has a primary mode of binding to DNA based on the similarity with CAP , and the presence of a secondary site that could bind to another duplex of DNA . |
| 18 | I take it that the hon. Gentleman is referring to reinsurance provided by the private sector through the recently privatised insurance services group , which was formerly in ECGD but is now in NCM Credit Insurance Ltd . |