Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dobry 's detailed recommendations ( which totalled 161 ) were aimed in his words , at giving greater freedom to harmless development but also at guarding against harmful development by retaining the current scope of planning control ; at separating from the main stream of applications all those which might cause harm , and disposing of ‘ main stream applications ’ by rapid and routine procedures ; and applying the same approach to appeals . |
| 2 | He blamed the European Community being preoccupied with keeping farm gate prices down without applying the same rules to pubs and shops . |
| 3 | The designers , Dr Barry Gorham and Jim Dudley , say that theoretically , by applying the same technology to microwaves , they could extend its range over a much wider area — even rain and snow . |
| 4 | Rather than giving the same recognition to differences among literacies which he proposes to be differences among languages , he uses what is in fact the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy as the basis for arguments about the specific nature of the English language . |
| 5 | the simple straightforward statement ‘ I am cold ’ and I just wondered whether , you know , extrapolating backwards whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare . |
| 6 | And I just wondered whether , you know extrapolating backwards , whether we 're doing the same disservice to Shakespeare . |
| 7 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 8 | Mr Fowler said that while the existing law provided that it was automatically unfair to dismiss anyone for not being a union member , the bill completed the outlawing of the closed shop by extending the same protection to people applying for jobs . |