Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If deep love exists and that loving is complete , then this blend and harmony can be brought about by all forms of physical closeness — from touching and holding to the complete sexual act . |
| 2 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 3 | We 'll be talking motor racing and talking to the new Eddy Jordan Formula One team . |
| 4 | The appearance of agreement under a standard form agreement masks the reality of the weaker party having little freedom in practice in deciding whether to agree to the standard terms or not . |
| 5 | Details and information pack can be obtained by telephoning or writing to the Catholic Social Welfare Society . |
| 6 | They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state . |
| 7 | In it a couple in electric suits were arcing and fizzing to the hefty thump of a jumpbox . |
| 8 | Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations . |
| 9 | These events show that plants and animals have evolved not only a circadian rhythm to regular their daily lives , but also a way of reliably sensing and responding to the changing seasons . |
| 10 | In addition there was always one band playing and marching to the playing fields and another playing and marching away from there , while huge coaches carrying yet more bandsmen and women manoeuvred in the narrow streets into and out of parking spaces . |
| 11 | Dustin spent hours watching and listening to the old man . |
| 12 | Actors in travelling companies used to set up their stage in a town or village , mix among the inhabitants , watching and listening to the local news , gossip and scandal . |
| 13 | The light , clearing and brightening to the pure pale gold of primroses where its slanting rays could reach , still left the gatehouse and the court within the gates in shadow , and Tutilo kept his eyes on the cobbles and trod carefully , as though he could not see his way clearly . |
| 14 | He summoned up from the past the accent he had spent years discarding and bowed to the two men . |
| 15 | County sponsors Bass ( Senior and U21 ) and the trio of British Nuclear Fuels , Thistle Hotels and Morton International ( colts ) were guests of the Lancashire RFU with RFU President Danie Serfontein and Lancashire Past President Eddie Deacey proposing and replying to the principal toast . |
| 16 | Broad political support will not , of course , be won merely by appealing to the inherent rationality of planning as opposed to the profit-oriented allocation of resources . |