Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the factors contributing to the disciplinary problems of young people is their inability to cope with conflicts involving authority figures — those interpersonal occasions in which the youth and an authority figure ( such as a parent or teacher ) have opposing desires . |
| 2 | The Scottish Sports Council identified the need to examine reasons contributing to the low numbers of women involved in sports coaching . |
| 3 | Given that change in circumstances , we , it was felt that it would be prudent to propose to members a change to the actual statement which was in place , so that it would permit consideration of longer term borrowing , in particular circumstances and where it 's in the interest of the authority , and have the flexibility to do so , in relating to the prudent managements of its affairs , Chairman . |
| 4 | The Franks first appear in historical sources relating to the barbarian invasions of the third century . |
| 5 | However , there has been very little guidance or information from the Scottish Office relating to the transitional arrangements for RECHAR and how the Regional Council can maximise potential additional capital consents in 1993–94 . |
| 6 | the formulation and general application of a unified Defence policy relating to the Armed Forces of the Crown as a whole and their requirements . |
| 7 | The study aims to assemble some of the information recorded in social casework records with a view to constructing a prediction table of the factors relating to the successful placements of mentally handicapped adults in the community . |
| 8 | He has been involved in several research projects relating to the spatial impacts of industrial organisation and change within the UK and EC . |
| 9 | This legend was probably developed in emulation of those relating to the early years of the Goths . |
| 10 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 11 | Management need these systems in order to help them establish sustainable goals and to provide information relating to the long-term decisions of the organisation . |
| 12 | The synthesis of geographical facts relating to the locational properties of spatial entities and their associated attributes is a necessary counterbalance to analytical studies carried out in physical and human geography . |
| 13 | If there is anything to quibble about in Wilson 's thorough and engaging study which also relies on an extensive body of secondary material , as reflected in the footnotes and excellent up-to-date bibliography , it is in the section relating to the musical sources of the lauda in the 15th and early 16th centuries . |
| 14 | The general qualities of those appointed as judges , chairmen or lay members of tribunals , are considered more important than a detailed knowledge of the law relating to the particular types of dispute likely to be considered by those persons . |
| 15 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 16 | There are files of correspondence , rentals and accounts relating to the several divisions of the estate ; approximately 500 maps ( many being older items previously overlooked ) ; boxes on a miscellany of topics from industry and agriculture to education and churches ; and much that is as yet totally unsorted . |
| 17 | On Sept. 13 , 1991 , the Bank of France announced that it was returning to the Baltic states between two and three tonnes of gold which had been deposited in 1932-36 . |
| 18 | Latter-day Cobdenites faced the future by returning to the subversive roots of their creed . |
| 19 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 20 | The composition of Joni 's painting derives mainly from Matteo 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ , n.283 in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena , but while keeping to the internal rhythms of Matteo 's composition , Joni incorporates his own variations . |
| 21 | The staircase rose ahead of him , climbing to the darkened rooms on the first floor . |
| 22 | If anybody has given up his right to vote , in the misguided intention of not paying his taxes , he will get no sympathy from the public — and more fool he , for listening to the Labour Members of Parliament who urged people not to pay their community charge . |
| 23 | Listening to the personal stories of the half-dozen Easterhouse people gathered in the hall — stories of drug addiction , crime , alcoholism , unemployment , poverty — it is hard to ignore his appeal . |
| 24 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 25 | She wished she could be siting in the Prego Café , listening to the mind-pounding rhythms of the juke box . |
| 26 | Sara stood on deck for hours , watching the seabirds gliding along beside the ship , listening to the gruff conversations of the men on deck , and wondering — endlessly — what Dom João would be like . |
| 27 | The police will always dream of listening to the hidden thoughts of the criminals , but gaining the ability to scan every letter in the country wo n't make a difference . |
| 28 | Zen stood there in the elegant and spacious sitting room , listening to the insistent voices of the glass and steel coffee table supporting a spray of glossy magazines , the pouchy leather furniture over which a huge lamp on a curved stainless-steel pole craned like a vulture , the silver plates and the crystal bowls , the discreetly modern canvases , the shelves lined with works of literature , the expensive antiques , the handwoven rugs on the gleaming parquet floor , the baby grand piano with a Mozart sonata Iying open on the stand , the fireplace piled high with logs . |
| 29 | They sat in the streets near the school listening to the amplified announcements of successive unanimous votes for Magharba candidates , men — as one bank manager said indignantly and exaggeratedly — ‘ without a school-leaving certificate between them ’ . |
| 30 | By the time they reached London Bridge Maltote and Ranulf had vomited every drop they had drunk and had to spend the rest of the journey listening to the harsh witticisms of the grinning oarsmen . |