Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When applying for entry to a conversion course , past experience and qualifications will be taken into account , of course , but the demand for places on the 52-week courses is such that returning nurses are likely to be disadvantaged from those already practising . |
| 2 | A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients . |
| 3 | Police are looking for witnesses to a road accident between a motorcycle and a car outside Dean 's Garden Centre , Seamer Road , Scarborough . |
| 4 | But the remake , ranging from farce to a touch of sentiment , is n't at all bad . |
| 5 | The high church Anglican theologian Eric Mascall , writing in response to a report of a Lambeth subcommittee which commented that medieval understandings were based on false biological views , expressed himself thus : |
| 6 | Maurice suggested that an attempt had already been made , after Eliot 's separation from her , to have her committed but that Vivien , having been warned about , or suspecting , such a move , went to Paris — certainly she recorded on 19 June 1935 some plan to have her " arrested " but nothing happened ; then , six days later , she is writing from Paris to a friend , Louise Purdon . |
| 7 | Section 5(1) of UCTA 1977 states : 5- ( 1 ) In the case of goods of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption , where loss or damage ( a ) arises from the goods proving defective while in consumer use ; and ( b ) results from the negligence of a person concerned in the manufacture or distribution of the goods , liability for the loss or damage can not be excluded or restricted by reference to any contract term or notice contained in or operating by reference to a guarantee of the goods . |
| 8 | Beneath this an equally twinkling canopy overhung a pavement inlaid with tiles of lilies and acanthus leaves leading through swing-doors to a foyer rich in crimson carpet , mahogany , plump banquettes , frames of photographs of the cast in this or other productions , a Box Office within whose highly carved confines the Box Office manager or his assistant lurked like priests in the confessional receiving through the pinched grill the whispered wishes of communicants . |
| 9 | If you are using a Brother machine you need to take care when you are going from lace to a tuck stitch row and vice vera . |
| 10 | But selling in bulk to a middle-man such as an investment bank , which then sells on the properties , probably means settling for a low price , reckons Bill Rhodes , a vice-chairman of Citicorp . |
| 11 | The trade union rates so jealously guarded in the inter-war period by the Association became little more than the minimum wage of the 1950s , producing salaries insufficient to attract the ambitious tour operator and dynamic advertising manager and leading in turn to a failure to compete effectively . |
| 12 | You know we 're going to Nottingham to a party ? |
| 13 | Urinary α2 -globulin is also involved in hyaline droplet nephropathy , an important toxicological syndrome in male rats resulting from exposure to a number of industrial chemicals and characterized by the accumulation of liganded urinary α2- globulin in lysosomes in the kidney , followed by the induction of renal cancer . |
| 14 | Liability Insurance is important if in the future there were an event in which you or your nanny could be accused of negligence resulting in injury to a child in her care or in your house . |
| 15 | The principal innovation associated with this test ( Berry and Mittler 1984 ) is that , instead of pointing in response to a word or sentence , the child is required to imitate a sentence spoken by the adult . |
| 16 | Speaking in Edinburgh to a gathering of chairmen from his various trust organisations in Scotland , he said that he had tried very hard to persuade architects and planners that there was another way . |
| 17 | Whereas the EAT relies upon a single elicitation strategy ( word naming in response to a picture stimulus ) , the Goldman-Fristoe test ( Goldman and Fristoe 1969 ) sets out to examine a range of different phonemes in both imitative and ‘ conversational ’ contexts . |
| 18 | But I thought you were saying in answer to a question my was putting to you that one of the reasons for shouting armed police was so that everybody knows you 're armed police . |
| 19 | We 're not simply talking about opening and closing in response to a stimulus then , this first stimulus has left the channels in a state in which they 're relatively unable to gate open . |
| 20 | English cases are few , but a threat to get back money owing to the accused falls within s.34(2) ( a ) ( i ) : Parkes [ 1973 ] Crim LR 358 ; and a threat by a person suffering from osteoarthritis to a doctor that he would shoot him unless he was given a pain- killing injection was held to be blackmail in Bevans ( 1988 ) 87 Cr App R 64 ( CA ) , a decision which extends blackmail beyond being a property offence . |
| 21 | But , as was explained in sections 1.1 and 1.2 , it differs markedly from the alternative , commonly held perspective which sees each country 's economy as essentially an integrated whole , exporting any surplus of goods , capital or finance , or importing in response to a deficit . |
| 22 | Bravo levies a transaction charge for each booking , starting at £1.80 to a maximum of £3.30 . |
| 23 | Hence , branching on leads to a reduction of at least and selecting the variable which maximises ( 11.1 ) has proved a successful branching rule . |
| 24 | A fingerpost points to a short path descending amongst trees to a footbridge over the river , flowing erratically on and under its limestone bed . |
| 25 | Enthusiasm should not he allowed to overrule common sense : beyond the point of return , the cave continues for a further half — mile , dropping in pitches to a depth of 250 feet . |
| 26 | A different patient correctly reads irregular words aloud but fails to retrieve their meaning , responding for example to a word on a card with : ‘ HYENA , what the heck is that ? ’ |
| 27 | The extent to which isostatic compensation occurs regionally through flexure , rather than locally , depends on the flexural rigidity of the lithosphere , a property which indicates its resistance to bending in response to a change in load . |
| 28 | The treeline defining the southern tundra edge is often fringed by a forest-tundra zone , narrow in North America but broadening in Eurasia to a band up to 300km wide . |
| 29 | Shares allotted under the Scheme will rank ( subject to dividend and other entitlements arising by reference to a date prior to the date of exercise ) pari passu in all respects with the other shares then in issue . |
| 30 | POLICE in Glasgow are appealing for witnesses to a road accident soon after noon yesterday when a pedestrian , William Wetherall , 80 , of Dumbarton Road , Glasgow , died after being hit by an articulated lorry in Dumbarton Road . |