Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , theory shows that financing a service by an annually-negotiated budget will result in a higher level of provision of the service than would be socially optimal , and higher than would be provided by financing through charges to the user . |
| 2 | typically of 10,000 population size with their standard provision of schools , open space and shops , and with roads deflecting through traffic to the edge of the residential area , also served to impart a new spatial order to the urban environment . |
| 3 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 4 | The male is now primarily involved in breaking up quarrels between females and in repelling approaches by other males either bidding for access to the harem through the formation of a two-male team or , more dangerously , seeking a fight for total replacement . |
| 5 | In that case there could have been no just criticism of Lincoln 's Inn in the way it had adjudicated on the application of a student applying for admission to the Inn who had had serious criminal convictions between 1956 and 1974 . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ Emily replied , walking with confidence to the entrance and knocking on the door . |
| 7 | They are sandwich-boards for Oedipal tendencies , eagerly disposing of the father — they reject authority , law , the land — and reverting with fervour to the embrace of the all-mothering sea . |
| 8 | Research is focused on what is actually happening in response to the innovation . |
| 9 | Opposition politicians on Sept. 5 alleged that senior officials were involved in corruption and influence peddling in relation to the privatization of state assets . |
| 10 | Early in the month William Wordsworth , returning from Bristol to the home he was sharing near Crewkerne with his sister Dorothy , made a detour into West Somerset to visit Coleridge . |
| 11 | The 15-member House of Chiefs considers draft legislation relating to alterations to the Constitution or to chieftaincy matters , and may make representation to the President on matters affecting the tribes or tribal organizations . |
| 12 | The rules relating to succession to the Crown thus provide for the identification not merely of a part of Parliament but for that of the head of state in all respects . |
| 13 | Crossing the Ouse over the Cosgrove Aqueduct , the canal climbs to Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire , now the home of the National Waterways Museum , through Blisworth Tunnel and more locks ; then it leaves the Grand Junction system at Norton , climbing at Watford to the summit level plateau , 413.5 feet above sea level , before dropping suddenly at Foxton . |
| 14 | cAMP functions as a second messenger after binding of histamine to the histamine 2 receptor . |
| 15 | As previously shown , binding of cAMP-CRP to the wt-promoter resulted in the formation of two retarded complexes : The complex with the highest mobility contains cAMP-CRP bound at CRP-2 and the complex with the lowest mobility contains cAMP-CRP bound at both CRP-2 and CRP-1 ( 6 ) . |
| 16 | And 18 years later he was still there , serving as equerry to the Maharajah of Rewa . |
| 17 | Acting as midwife to the enterprise has been Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios who was assisted by Roberto Valeriani . |
| 18 | Drs David Gorst at Lancaster Royal Infirmary , Jerry Ravetz , Honorary Reader in the Lancaster Centre for Science Studies and Science Policy and Iain Chalmers , Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at Oxford are acting as consultants to the research group . |
| 19 | Other areas of work include the keeping of records and acting as secretary to the Course Approvals Panel . |
| 20 | Acting as consultant to the Board of Overseas Trade , he worked on the British empire exhibition , Wembley , in 1924 , as a designer of friezes , decorations , and displays . |
| 21 | Acting as advisers to the purchaser and shall not have any liability under the heads . |
| 22 | ‘ We are hoping that our two new friends will assist us by acting as emissaries to the Court , ’ said Goibniu and , turning his head , smiled at Floy . |
| 23 | ‘ Do we have enough air ? ’ ; through controlling proceedings : ‘ I 'll be talking for ten minutes , with five minutes for questions at the end ’ ; and through acting as guide to the presentation , by commenting on the route , ‘ So that 's my second point . |
| 24 | We are not looking for additions to the canon of ‘ sacred places ’ . |
| 25 | Police , forensic and bomb squad officers are still searching for clues to the cause of that blast . |
| 26 | A stampede broke out , people pushing past Jezrael to the cockpit to see the first signs of other human beings through the canopy . |
| 27 | I am writing with reference to the letter in January 's Talkback , from P. Barnett , who requests details of a local society which he can join . |
| 28 | And in saying this sort of thing to its own members , the church also invites the rest of the community to find for itself , people within the community to find for themselves , the positive benefits of living in obedience to the word of God . |
| 29 | Healthy organic growth is proportionate , with each area and function developing in relation to the other . |
| 30 | Leonora lay hugging a hot-water bottle in the noisy darkness , grateful for the warmth as she listened to the wind howling in counterpoint to the boom of the sea on the rocks below . |