Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Entitled The Special Edition , it restored around 17 minutes of original unscreened footage , filling in more background to Ripley 's material angst and showing exactly what happened to Newt 's parents and the other settlers on the Alien 's planet . |
| 2 | In contrast with earlier enquiries — especially Beckford — they were criticized for paying too little attention to parents and for having ‘ a strong focus on the needs of the child in isolation from the family ’ ( DOH , 1988 , para. 4. 57 ) . |
| 3 | Either way the notion is both ill-informed and ridiculous and it comes from paying too much attention to newspapers like the Guardian . |
| 4 | ‘ Flying planes can be dangerous ’ is the type-sentence of semantic ambiguity because it can yield both a passive and an active interpretation , and here a variation is used to demonstrate the danger of paying too much attention to public opinion . |
| 5 | The Trust is well aware of the undesirability of sending too many offers to members through the post . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ I think it is terrible that puppies can be dumped and left to die when the RSPCA is giving so much help to people who can not afford the vet 's bill for sterilisation . |
| 7 | England has lost 70,000 hectares of farmland in the past 50 years — an area equivalent in size to the whole of Berkshire , Hertfordshire , Oxfordshire and Greater London combined — with the south-east losing as much land to development as if Greater London had been built all over again . |
| 8 | He was taking no chances on having too many deaths to muck up his statistics . |
| 9 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 10 | Handing over these responsibilities to others is therefore sometimes rather threatening to one 's ego . |
| 11 | Of those polled , 51% believe that the government is making too many concessions to Palestinians , 82% oppose the return of the deportees , 89% reject any change in the status of Jerusalem as Israel 's undivided capital , and 59% oppose what you constantly demand , that is , withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines with slight modifications . |
| 12 | Fig 32 With the weight well forward again , the nose is in the water , offering far more resistance to turning than when it was in the air . |