Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One advantage of the fly and inner going up together is that the inner is kept at a set distance from the fly , preventing the two from touching and allowing moisture to leak through to the inside . |
| 2 | Now Gwynedd Health Authority 's health promotion adviser , Melfyn Thomas , is urging people to face up to the challenge of accepting people affected by HIV and Aids . |
| 3 | Nor has the Department decided whether it is going to contribute towards the considerable capital cost of new computers , causing doctors to put off to the last minute a decision on which system to choose . |
| 4 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 5 | He thinks that the likeliest area of ACT reform is the provision of a friendly UK base to act as a holding company for the European operations of UK or Japanese companies , allowing profits to flow through to the ultimate parent without the imposition of an ACT barrier . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , mother , ’ Craig held the book towards her , ‘ Mr Faraday 's account is short by several hundreds of pounds , this loss has partly been made good by taking money paid in to the company by General Webber . |
| 7 | An Admiralty clerical worker : Had found the body at about 9. 50 am , when taking office waste out to the yard for collection . |
| 8 | More than 45 firefighters were called to the scene at Preston Brook on the M56 in Cheshire after the tanker carrying kerosene crashed on to the Liverpool to London line . |
| 9 | Backscattered electron micrograph of hydroxyapatite after implantation , showing bone growing up to the implant . |
| 10 | I was watching Kim walk back to the screens . |
| 11 | As AT&T 's Bob Kavner , soon to be USL 's erstwhile chairman , says Novell 's purchase takes the emotions out , leaving people to get on to the real issues . |
| 12 | The old man made a series of ticks down the right-hand side of the buff form before telling Charlie to report back to the chap with the three white stripes . |
| 13 | Your serious working on filming music goes back to the 1960s ? |