Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] and [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there , he was able to forget the ritual of Monday morning when , in the darkness of winter or the bright light of summer 's early dawns , Celtic Crescent and the streets of Jewtown would be clamorous with the noise of horses being led from nearby stables and harnessed to carts , of men shouting instructions and calling to each other in Yiddish and English as they struggled under the weight of trunks and knapsacks stuffed to overflowing with clothes , fancy goods , kitchen articles , holy pictures , enlargements of family photographs — anything that might be suitable for selling from door to door on a weekly-payment basis . |
| 2 | If respectability was undermined after the Second World War by married women refusing dependence and returning to waged work while also having children , it is being undermined again by the new wave of dole-queue mothers who find a measure of independence in motherhood . |
| 3 | The text itself is transformed into a protean tool for unfolding ideas and responding to those of others . |
| 4 | The other part of the work is based on the experience , particularly of councils for voluntary service and other bodies like that , who at a local level are providing advice and support to voluntary groups . |
| 5 | ‘ The wee pug ’ , which translated into language sassenachs understand , means little saddle or tank engines who worked their lives in the washeries , sorting yards and transfer to main line . |
| 6 | Science education was envisaged , as David Layton tells us , by some early nineteenth century radicals like Richard Carlile as undermining dogma and leading to social emancipation . |
| 7 | Ever since the failure of the revolt of 1173–4 Louis had stopped giving aid and comfort to those who were discontented with Angevin rule . |
| 8 | Since behaviour breeds behaviour these are mutually reinforcing positions and lead to increased trust and the release of energies in more productive and enjoyable ways . |
| 9 | Yet even when ‘ agitation ’ played a large role , until the 1830s — and even then the traditional view was maintained by an older generation of abolitionists — it was seen as giving strength and support to parliamentary initiatives , backing to ‘ influence ’ over political leaders and entailing deference to the consensus of the leaders of parliamentary antislavery . |
| 10 | Modifications to lifestyle , such as performing calisthenics and returning to normal frequency of sex , were also more likely to have occurred . |
| 11 | The very freedom which marks the period of childhood gives unrivalled opportunity for picking up all sorts of information about the environment ; the child is not handicapped by attending school and listening to formal instruction which is for the most part unrelated to his interests and needs . |
| 12 | The shortfall algorithm , which worked left-to-right , kept abandoning paths and backtracking to shorter partial interpretations . |
| 13 | A couple of dozen invaders at first ; but soon there were a hundred , swarming through the undergrowth , hiding where they could , firing muskets and yelling to one another with wild huzzas . |
| 14 | Equalisation of money wage rates would , in this scenario , raise the unit costs of production in peripheral areas , thereby reducing competitiveness and contributing to further decline . |