Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One principal casualty could be Britain 's chances of building the prestigious successor to the JET fusion project , based at Culham in Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | When she placed eggs in closed plastic bags in the stream , the minnow eggs still hatched , but the perch eggs did not , proving the main benefit to a minnow is protection , rather than fanning . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the people in charge of Oxford Uni 's mail server have been playing around of late , and have changed from using the long form to the short form , and now , it seems , back again . |
| 4 | The note to be tuned is selected by using the rotary pot to the right of the strobe display , labelled ‘ Note ’ . |
| 5 | Fact is , carp on many waters are enjoying the good life to the extent where they are developing ‘ boilie-belly ’ . |
| 6 | It is wrong to deal with the needs of the poor by encouraging the general population to a wasteful use of energy supplied at a price too low in relation to its present environmental costs and the detriment of our descendants from the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves . |
| 7 | Now it was accepting the democratic method to the extent of reaching agreement with the Liberals or even Conservatives . |
| 8 | Cover with a damp cloth and iron gently , fusing the woven ribbon to the interfacing . |
| 9 | The problem of thinking we are attaching the same meaning to a word or action when we may not be can be appreciated humorously . |
| 10 | There is a natural temptation to seek an answer from the horse 's mouth , so to speak , by submitting the controversial material to the Attorney for an indication of his attitude . |
| 11 | In the left stance 1 : step forward , bringing the right foot to the front . |
| 12 | A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists . |
| 13 | The pilot slammed the powerful jets into reverse thrust , bringing the giant plane to a halt just before he ran out of runway . |
| 14 | Bringing the single market to the door of Scottish business |
| 15 | Ian Traill , director of the Glasgow-based EuroInfo centre , said last night : ‘ We are delighted to have collaborated with The Scotsman in promoting this service and bringing the single market to the doorstep of Scottish business . ’ |
| 16 | However , William Matteuzzi 's Almaviva is so weak that it requires a considerable stretch of the imagination to picture her preferring the young Count to the lecherous old Dr Bartolo ; and although the late Giuseppe Patane conducts the score with obvious affection , he has little flare for dramatic pacing . |
| 17 | Reflecting the disappointing response to the 1989 appeal , the government requested only US$136,000,000 in emergency aid in its 1990 appeal , launched at the UN headquarters in New York on April 26 . |
| 18 | Over the next few years his local reputation spread , and in 1953–54 he joined Sydney grade club Petersham , catching the overnight train to the match each Saturday and returning home that evening . |
| 19 | The clearing house guarantees fulfilment of all contracts by intervening in all transactions and becoming the formal counterparty to every transaction . |
| 20 | In the end , after the tea had been made and drunk , there seemed nothing for it but to escort them home , leaving Ianthe at her front door and walking the short distance to the vicarage with Penelope . |
| 21 | I have obtained the permission of Mrs Gillian Wright , the Chairman of the Heart of Wales Line Travellers ' Association to quote a recent letter explaining the current threat to the Central Wales line and the campaign actions suggested . |
| 22 | Sooner or later the base must be changed and the following example demonstrates the difficulty of relating the new index to the old base for long-term comparisons . |
| 23 | Perestroika will not work without opening the Soviet economy to the West , he rightly reckons , and that will not happen properly until there is a hard rouble . |
| 24 | The book is written specifically for engineers and engineering undergraduates to present this computational technique as a practical tool in engineering , keeping the mathematical content to a minimum . |
| 25 | The HWIM system initially took a bottom-up , data-driven approach , at least as far as the lexical level , but encountered serious problems in matching the phonetic input to the stored lexical representations . |
| 26 | Every local authority knows exactly which dwellings are in its area so , by matching the postal code to the authority , all the money would go to the right local authority . |
| 27 | When the police arrived to rescue the driver , who 'd parked on a blind bend of the motorway , he 'd explained that he had n't wanted to risk ruining his tyre by driving the extra distance to the hard shoulder . |
| 28 | The Mons road offered the shortest route to Brussels , and if Brussels fell the Emperor would have succeeded in driving the British back to the North Sea and the Prussians back across the Rhine . |
| 29 | Why are we now getting a much better fit throughout the entire period simply by incorporating the dummy variable to the war period ? |
| 30 | applying the legal test to the facts as decided by the tribunal and making a fair decision on the law ; properly |