Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] to an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm giving a temporary home to an unmarried mother in return for typing help . |
| 2 | ( It is a matter of some controversy whether the introduction of this name into the subject was essentially giving a new name to an older concept or whether it involved a significantly new point of view . |
| 3 | The proposals indicated a growing convergence with the government , with apparent agreement on giving a constitution-drafting role to an elected interim administration ( called a " transitional government " by the government and a " constituent assembly " by the ANC — see pp. 38704-05 for details of government proposals ) . |
| 4 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 5 | Option 3 : Making a new connection to an existing lighting circuit allows new lights to have their own switch . |
| 6 | There are now two grounds for referring a prospective merger to an investigation by the MMC : ( 1 ) that the merger will promote a new monopoly as defined by the 25 per cent market share used in deciding references for existing monopoly positions , or ( 2 ) that the merger involves the transfer of at least 30 million worth of company assets . |
| 7 | Mike Dawson was sitting at a dead computer , strumming the keyboard and offering a toothy smile to an invisible audience . |
| 8 | Her main interests were the cinema and horse-racing ; she drew upon her knowledge of the latter in Brat Farrar ( 1949 ) , a novel featuring a false claimant to an estate . |
| 9 | This one has found a cosy hole in an insulation , covering a disused pipe to an oil fired power centre . |