Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 2 | The most important factor in keeping arrears down to the lowest possible level was exercising proper care in granting mortgage loans , checking the applicant 's income , his previous borrowing record , verifying that the property was relevant to the borrower 's needs and his ability to maintain it in good order . |
| 3 | The indications between the centre-line and full scale deflection are marked by the inner circle and 4 dots , each representing 2° up to the full scale deflection of 10° each side of the centreline . |
| 4 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 5 | Delaney turned the already hosing gun on to the nearest . |
| 6 | Using a single prong transfer tool , lift the two long strands of weaving yarn on to the selected needles . |
| 7 | The project suddenly became interesting when they were forcing deuterium in to a 1 cm 3 block of palladium ( ‘ charging the palladium ’ ) by means of a 1.5 amp electrical current . |
| 8 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 9 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 10 | From the Brigadier 's office the Captain telephoned Maxwell at the Excelsior , sending Bacci through to the communicating duty room to pick up the phone there . |
| 11 | Sparta voted for war against Athens on this occasion in her own chamber , thereby getting Samos on to the Peloponnesian League agenda ; the Corinthians voted for peace in the second , decisive meeting , composed of the whole league ( Thuc. i.40 ) . |
| 12 | Indeed , holding prices down to an inefficient level of costs may be inferior in its effects to a form of control in which prices are high but costs are low . |
| 13 | But at least the food is there in a crisis — and is also there ready and waiting in the event that a government comes to power which is serious about getting food through to the poorest . |
| 14 | Like , we get literally hundreds of calls on Friday and Saturday nights and we 're sending vehicles out to the same thing every time . |
| 15 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year |
| 16 | There is no guarantee that this money will be available next year so training providers are now scrabbling around trying to work out ways of providing training up to the required standard in six months instead of the full year . |
| 17 | A half moon shone through the dark , flying clouds on to the wild and empty moor . |
| 18 | Then turn right again to make good the inbound holding track back to the holding point . |
| 19 | Such an argument proved powerfully attractive ; both the Whiggish Burnet and the Williamite Tory , Edmund Bohun , believed that arguments from conquest had the greatest effect in bringing people over to the new government . |
| 20 | The stories of Creation , the rescue of the Hebrews from Egypt , the escaping journey , dry-shod through the Sea , the years of desert purification and then the gift of a rich and fertile homeland , exiles , prophets and wise people instructing and drawing people back to the faithful track , these start our Easter Feast . |
| 21 | Once consequence of the highly oscillatory single.step response is the existence of resonance effects at stepping rates up to the natural frequency of rotor oscillation . |
| 22 | In summertime trains run as often as every ten minutes taking holiday-makers through to the popular resort . |
| 23 | ‘ But he seems to have a lot of good ideas aimed at taking Forest back to the Premier League and I 'm happy to be part of that . ’ |
| 24 | A BOY cheated death after falling 20ft on to an electrified high-speed railway line . |
| 25 | And towards the end of each over — when the bowlers know the ball is most likely to be inspected by the umpires — the new gouges are disguised by rubbing sweat on to the roughened surface . |
| 26 | Van Til ( 1976 ) , in reviewing reports up to the 1970s , concludes that the seven Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education , proposed by the Commission on the Reorganisation of Secondary Education in 1918 , still apply . |
| 27 | Gedge paid tribute to the postage by firing letters off to every small-time promoter whose address he could find . |
| 28 | they have to beg and borrow all the local pools they can to keep going … and yet their success is helping swindon on to the top board of swimming … |
| 29 | Kirov was always a master at inveigling innocents on to the wrong side of the system . |